Inspiration

2010

Who else wants a New Year resolution?

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Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? Uh, what’s that? No? Well there goes your 2010. Might as well kiss it goodbye. And if you’re the type of person who doesn’t have a list of New Year’s resolutions, you might as well kiss 2011, 2012, and the rest of your More >

Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty

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I once believed that capital was another word for money, the accumulated wealth of a country or its people. Surely, I thought, wealth is determined by the money or property in one’s possession. Then I saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed: “Ideas are capital. The More >

Africa Must Produce or Perish

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Imagine that it is May 25, 2063, the 100th anniversary of Africa Day, a day for reflecting on Africa’s successes and failures. The newspaper headline announces, “Last Remaining Oilfield in West Africa’s American Territory Dries Up.”

The article continues: “The last patch of rainforest will soon be empty land scarred by More >

An Open Letter to Martin Luther King

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Walk with me down memory lane. The time: 1968. In 30 months, one million dead. The setting: a dusty camp in Biafra where survivors waited and hoped for peace. The survivors: Refugees fleeing from the “Dance of Death.” My mentor: One of the refugee camp directors, whom I called “Teacher” More >