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…o every healthy member of our species, all other animals have tunnel vision. When our ancestors began to migrate out of Africa, the diversity of environments and social opportunities favored generalists with a broad and flexible vision. To appreciate the significance of the human...

…es may be heading up. Inflation data is due for Russia (6 Nov), Brazil (7 Nov), China (9 Nov), India (14 Nov) and South Africa (21 Nov). The prices of grains and oil are higher than this time last year. For now, negative output gaps should counterbalance some of this inflationary...

… held them back from the punctuated shift to a new, more advanced equilibrium. Russia, China, much of Latin America and Africa – for them, the leap to being honestly modern was fatally elusive. Even today, they struggle to catch up. We are now in the earliest stages of a shift th...

 Africa, parasites, intelligence To understand intelligence in the tropics, e.g. among dark-skinned Africans, you need to understand the importance of parasites—both as an environmental factor that exerts a negative effect on mental development and a positive effect on selecti...

…ngressional Black Caucus. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026836 Senegal's Democratic Backslide 2015 was a banner year for democracy in Africa. Nigeria, the largest country on the continent, had a democratic election, and even more impressively, had its first ever peaceful transition of power wh...

…ngressional Black Caucus. Senegal's Democratic Backslide HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028776 2015 was a banner year for democracy in Africa. Nigeria, the largest country on the continent, had a democratic election, and even more impressively, had its first ever peaceful transition of power wh...

…fended. I was like, dammit, Elizabeth Pisani, this is the book I wanted to write!) In early 2010, while I was still in Africa, I began writing a series of articles about my experiences. These articles were published at CarnalNation.com and edited by Chris Hall, who is a smart se...

…IV/AIDS Facts 36.7 million People living with HIV/AIDS worldwide 2015 1 in 25 Adults Are living with HIV in Sub Saharan Africa 1.1 million People died of AIDS-related illnesses worldwide 2015 70% Of people living with HIV worldwide are found in Sub-Saharan Africa 51% are women Mo...

…ly troubled societies. The events of late 2014 and 2015 include vivid reminders of the power of the ballot. In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest economy, voters who were fed up with governmental complacency, terrorism, and graft rejected the incumbent president,...

…torurinary medicine. Liam began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in a medical marketing role at Roche in South Africa. He received his M.D. degree and Ph.D. degree in immunology from the University of Cape Town and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan. Liam...

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…g for a half hour. The UPS guy shows up 10 minutes later. Bad timing can spoil the fun. Jean-Marc Hachey landed in West Africa as a volunteer, with high hopes of lending a helping hand. In that sense, his timing was great. He arrived in Ghana in the early 1980s, in the middle of...

…nerations. More than 100,000 arrived from Iraq, and several hundred thousand from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria in north Africa. Immediately after the war, about 50,000 were airlifted out of Yemen, where they had endured violent attacks ever since the UN partition vote. The realit...

…y. Europe should find interest in this. Under the initiative, cooperation with China on its two aisles, Eurasia and “Eurafrica”, can allow the European Union to reach its economic growth and employment targets. That big geostrategic region must become “a community of interests, o...

…seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. One response that is often heard is a note of cautious optimism, captured in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when he ref...