The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continent-and whole nations with it-into tidy colonial compartments. With African states searching for a political identity in the post-colonial era, the superpowers are now j
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Arthur Gavshon has been writing about international affairs since serving with South Africa's volunteer army during World War II. As a diplomatic correspondent, he has attended most post-war summit conferences, built up a wide network of diplomatic and political friends and sources, and interviewed and talked informally with successive heads of government in Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia
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