The riddle of identity means I can live in the US for 20 years yet still be treated differently – by both black people and white
Guardian, 14 January 2011
Guardian, 6 June 2010
Nicholas Kristof seems to think poor people should not seek pleasure at the expense
of practical needs. It's not that simple
Guardian, 13 Sep 2009: Resistance
to US healthcare reform springs
from American belief in middle
class prosperity and individual
self-reliance
Guardian 10 Mar 2009: Barack Obama
must figure out how American capitalism
and global capitalism can live side by side
Guardian 5 Dec 2008: Barack Obama
may be sympathetic to Africa's problems,
but solving them requires US policy
changes he can't possibly make
14 Jul 2009: If Obama and the G8
truly want to help Africa's poor, they
must stop supporting the continent's
corrupt leaders
Finally
in
Kenya after a three year
absence, I am alarmed. It feels like
a ship
whose cargo is a terrible future
of violence has already set sail from
the distant hell of Africa's past and
is heading for our shores. It
will dock
in the near future. And we, the
politicians, political
activists, writers
and intellectuals, are simply bickering
over what
exactly this ship may
contain...
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