That academic education in the absence of substantial humanist political awareness can mean disaster must be clear by now to anyone who can think independently. Nowhere is this danger looming large as in Africa today with its predominantly greedy, self-serving elites who are open to all kinds of manipulation by world powers. Ruminating on recent events in Mali, Niger, Somalia and Southern Sudan, I cannot pretend to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yet this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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