Ghana: Your introduction to Africa

For a first visit to The Mother Continent, this English-speaking nation of proud and friendly West Africans, with its link to America’s slavery past and its comfort level with Black American expats, makes a sensible choice. You’ve made up your mind: You’re finally going to Africa.  But where?   That’s no small question, because Africa is […]

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Poorism takes a life

[smartslider3 slider=7] A Spanish tourist in Rio de Janeiro is shot dead at a military police checkpoint while touring one of the city’s infamous hill slums called favelas. It calls into question the practice of using poverty as a tourist attraction. It happened this week. The victim was a 67-year-old woman whose car failed to […]

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