April 18, 2008
The Dilemmas of Explaining Africa
African professors like me are often asked by Americans at academic gatherings, campus events, and informal social gatherings what we think of the never-ending civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the genocide in Sudan, anarchy in Somalia, last year's disastrous elections in Nigeria, the Kenyan political crisis, and other problems too numerous to list here. To volunteer information about your African identity, which your so-called accent advertises anyway, or to declare your
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