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Food Crisis of Biblical Proportions in Mozambique

Mozambique is facing an impending food crisis, and some regions of the country are already at that point. First, huge swaths of the country have experienced half of their normal rainfall in recent months. Then heavy rainfalls caused flooding, with further heavy rains (and flood devastation) expected. Now, to add a Biblical element to this beleaguered scene, locusts threaten the crops in some central parts of the country.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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