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Following the Haitian Revolution that ended in 1804, France, the colonial power, reportedly demanded today’s equivalent of $21 billion from

At what point can a person afford not to steal? I think about this question often, particularly in regard to

The Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union created a bipolarity within which pretty much every country in

In March 2016, a month after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick

“Venezuela is now a world leader in the production of desperation,” says Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson in a recent

Perhaps more than colonialism, most emigrants like me from Africa routinely blame corruption for much of the continent’s current ills.

Libya’s descent into chaos following the ouster and killing of its longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi has led to widespread condemnation

Dambisa Moyo’s Edge of Chaos has generated quite a bit of controversy since its publication last year. In the book,

In my middle school history class in Ghana, my teacher once made a passing comment that between the 16th and

Current citizens of developed countries should count themselves lucky that their forbearers were able to take a slow and methodical

There is one thing the Christchurch mosque shootings, the Sri Lanka church bombings, the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings, and the Charleston

Around the world, a great majority of countries have heterogeneous populations. One of the most important distinguishing features among population