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Our Mysterious Absence

Well, it looks like we may be doing our jobs a bit too well here at the Foreign Policy Association Blogs network. All indications are that our recent disappearance from the web was the result of focused malfeasance that is largely the result of the coverage we have been giving to a host of events around the globe, including in the Middle East and North Africa. We will continue to work to provide you with honest and unflinching coverage of events across the globe, and if we disappear into the ether again, hang tight — we will be back!

 

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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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