World Civ-Dilemmas in Modern Africa Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:53:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Global Slavery Index https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/the-global-slavery-index/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:46:15 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4714 The Global Slavery Index provides a ranking of 162 countries, reflecting a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country. The measure is heavily weighted to reflect the first factor, prevalence. A number one … Continue reading The Global Slavery Index →

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]]> Resource Mining in Africa https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/resource-mining-in-africa/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:56:45 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3330 The post Resource Mining in Africa appeared first on Daniel Aaron Lazar.

]]> 4 Part Series: Sudan Cracks Up https://daniellazar.com/2011/04/13/4-part-series-sudan-cracks-up/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:02:00 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2441 If you want a vivid image of the under-reported facets of Sudanese culture in the wake of South Sudan’s secession, check out this four-part Slate series.

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]]> South Sudan's future: Now for the hard part https://daniellazar.com/2011/02/24/south-sudans-future-now-for-the-hard-part/ Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:06:37 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2374 The new country, which is likely to be called South Sudan, faces many hurdles. The biggest is a shocking lack of public services. At the moment southerners are loyal mostly to belligerent tribal chiefs, not the nascent government that led the fight for independence. That government will win the trust of its citizens, and with … Continue reading South Sudan's future: Now for the hard part →

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]]> The Tragedy of Sudan https://daniellazar.com/2010/10/04/the-tragedy-of-sudan/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:42:22 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2209 Here is Time magazine’s treatment of the Sudan crisis from 2004. We’ll see what crisis January 2011 brings…

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]]> Out of Africa?: Foreign aid is part of the problem, but so is corrupt politics https://daniellazar.com/2009/05/05/out-of-africa-foreign-aid-is-part-of-the-problem-but-so-is-corrupt-politics/ Tue, 05 May 2009 15:09:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1631 Between 2002 and 2008, sub-Saharan Africa started growing again, buoyed like much of the rest of the world by the global commodity boom and Chinese investment. Thus ended one of the most dismaying periods in the continent’s recent history, a generationlong stretch during which most countries in the region saw per capita incomes fall, sometimes … Continue reading Out of Africa?: Foreign aid is part of the problem, but so is corrupt politics →

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]]> Rwandan Genocide https://daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/rwandan-genocide/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:13:43 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/rwandan-genocide/ Chapter 8 of Gourevitch’s, “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families” Interview with Phillip Gourevitch Responses to Gourevitch Interview Ebert Review of Hotel Rwanda Questions for Hotel Rwanda

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]]> Genocide in Sudan? https://daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/genocide-in-sudan/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:54:32 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/genocide-in-sudan/ Nelson Kasfir tires to respond to his research question: “In causing civilian atrocities on such a massive scale, has the Sudanese government adopted a policy of cultural annihilation, or has it decided to crush a rebellion to protect its dominance?” Sudan’s Darfur: Is It Genocide? Response Sheet

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