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Nigeria's Good Luck: Off Terror Watch List

Nigeria’s domestic political situation might be perilous, but the country just received a foreign policy coup. Interim President Goodluck Jonathan’s recent visit to the United States resulted in his country being removed from the US’s Terrorist Watch List. Color me impressed by Jonathan’s tenure thus far, even if I am skeptical as to whether the center can hold in a country with such a splintered internal political dynamic.

 

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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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