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01/13/2005:

"Jump the gun or reinvent the wheel?"

What is Africa like in the beginning of the third millennium? It is a question which is similar to asking: what is childhood like, or what is old age like? It is all too similar, and all too diverse.

In sub-Saharan Africa in particular, this is particularly true. There are deserts and there are rainforests, there is poverty and there is poverty. It might have been thought an irony that Africa has been named the continent of the new millennium, had two American presidents not done two separate tours of the continent, each historic in its own way and right, in the last five years.

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