China in Africa

Djibouti does not frequently feature in the headlines, but the leader of the tiny country in the Horn of Africa and his international partners recently touted this state of rocky mountains and extremely hot weather as the new Dubai, the Shekou of East Africa, and the rising African Singapore.

Of course, that stance, one that dates back centuries in Chinese history, has largely been a fiction for decades.  Since acquiring nuclear weapons in the 1960s and building an inter-continental ballistic missile capability that now includes submarines and land-based delivery systems and esti

When I was attending middle school at Kyebi, in the Eastern Region, my task each morning was to go to the River Birem, where I would bathe and bring some water home.