Good question.
In an age of globalization I would have thought prognostications for the future would be considerably more pessimistic, especially if we continue on w idiots in power, or with hard, cruel rulers in power, everywhere from Russia to the US.
Maybe we are supposed to be happy with a future carved by non-democratic rule, as in china, as opposed to the EU.but I think we all know china is actually increasing in influence everywhere as opposed to the EU, with its walled off east, its coast guarded south, its great openness to tourists more than refugees. And the US? Une honte.
According to the comaroffs, our future has to come from the global south—from Africa, and, why not?, latin america
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
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Date: Monday 8 January 2018 at 08:35
To: usaafricadialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>, usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History - The New York Times
"As recently as the 1960s, a majority of humans had always been illiterate and lived in extreme poverty. Now fewer than 15 percent are illiterate, and fewer than 10 percent live in extreme poverty. In another 15 years, illiteracy and extreme poverty will be mostly gone. After thousands of generations, they are pretty much disappearing on our watch . . ." (emphasis, mine)
I would like to know from where Kristof obtained this amazing information, and what gave him the promise of a total eradication of poverty and illiteracy within the next 15 years!
Just curious . . .
Michael
On Monday, January 8, 2018, 4:54:13 AM PST, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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