Daniel Aaron Lazar

Out of Africa?: Foreign aid is part of the problem, but so is corrupt politics

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 to levels not experienced since the end of colonialism.

read on from Francis Fukayama’s contribution to Slate

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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?

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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