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Tying Up Hillary Clinton's Loose Ends

Just a couple of loose ends from Hillary Clinton’s just-completed Africa trip:

The Washington Post’s Mary Beth Sheridan sheds a spotlight on how women’s issues were central to the Secretary of State’s mission: “Clinton’s just-concluded 11-day trip to Africa has sent the clearest signal yet that she intends to make women’s rights one of her signature issues and a higher priority than ever before in American diplomacy.”

You should not miss this Mail & Guardian assessment of Clinton’s trip from Eusebius McKaiser of Johannesburg’s Centre for the Study of Democracy and Sasha Polakow-Suransky of Foreign Affairs magazine.

 

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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.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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