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The Minor African Deity That Failed

Jesse Walker | 12.8.2005 12:33 PM

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Back in the '90s, Eritrea was supposed to be Africa's grand exception: a self-reliant country that refused foreign aid and embraced democratic values. It hasn't worked out that way.

[Via Bill Weinberg. For some dark comedy, check out the reader comments at the end of his post.]

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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