Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions
Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions
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Gayle SmithGayle Smith is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress . She worked in Africa for almost twenty years as a journalist and advisor to non-governmental organisations, and from 1998-2000 as special assistant to the United States president and senior director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. She is co-author of The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account (Brookings Institution, 2003). Recent articlesAmerica in Africa: plunderer or partner? Is Americas foreign policy a slave to political priorities and business interests? In the fifteenth of our Letters to Americans series, Ken Wiwa, justice campaigner and advocate for the Ogoni people in the Niger delta, writes to Gayle Smith, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. |
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