I would like to welcome you all to the Foreign Policy Association's new Africa Blog. Some of you may be familiar with me from the FPA's South Africa Blog, which I have run for nearly a year now. I will serve as the senior blogger/senior editor of the Africa Blog, but we will also add contributors in the days and weeks to come. My goal here will be to increase Africa's profile by emphasizing both continent-wide issues and concerns within particular regions and countries. I will still continue to work at the South Africa blog as well, but this will provide an opportunity to rationalize our Africa coverage.
We ask that you be patient as we get started and welcome comments, questions, and criticism about anything that we write.
