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Invented Communities in Africa and America
In Garry Wills’ Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, the phrase is used in a positive way, just as when Mark Egan Essig used the phrase for his Inventing America: the life of...
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On Libya and “African Mercenaries”
A dead man, shown on Al Arabiya and said to be an "African" mercenary As Tommy Miles put it, two weeks ago (in an excellent piece of writing that should be read in its entirety): There is a very...
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Our Deafening Silence on the Coast of Africa: Cote D’Ivoire and our Myth of...
“A deafening silence, while the television world have turned to Japan and Libya.” “The world continues to focus on events in the Maghreb and beyond. The international community’s attention is far from...
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Why Arianna Huffington is Bill Keller’s Somali Pirate
“In Somalia this would be called piracy.” -Bill Keller “Africa, as an idea, a concept, has historically served, and continues to serve, as a polemical argument for the West’s desperate desire to assert...
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Ernest Hemingway in Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa
I re-read Hemingway’s two “African” short stories last night — both because I’m in the midst of revising my chapter on Roosevelt’s African Game Trails and because I was energized by the hilarious...
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