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Remembering the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
Posted on March 23, 2015, 12:10 am By

South Africa, 1960 On March 21, 1960, exactly 55 years ago today, a crowd estimated at five thousand (according to apartheid police 20 thousand, inflated to justify their extreme response)…

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The Moral Equivalent of an Anti-Apartheid Movement in Ethiopia?
Posted on March 3, 2013, 10:09 pm By

Ethiopian Muslims engaged in the moral equivalent of an anti-Apartheid movement? In her recent commentary in the New York Review of Books, “Obama: Failing the African Spring?”, Dr. Helen Epstein…

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