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The 9/11 Anniversary: Memories of the 1998 Nairobi Bomb Blast Awaken
This month as the US and the world mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States, I look at the impact of an event which took place three years before that fateful day in Nairobi, Kenya. The exact date was August 7, 1998, when suicide […]
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Ten Years On: Remembering 9/11 From Many Miles Away
It was early afternoon here in Ghana some ten years ago. I remember walking into the living room and seeing a plane fly into a building on TV. Just coming from school, I thought it was a movie I had missed countless minutes of and so my first reaction was […]
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The doubtful legacy: What ten years of fighting have left us…
9/11 is certainly a day which will be remembered as part of human history. It not only created a new world order, but caused as well a serious violation of existing rules. Personally I think that the greatest impact of this event has been that it has deeply undermined the […]
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With Us Or Against Us: Changing Perceptions of “The Other” after 9/11
When 9/11 happened, I was living in Uganda. I was at the house of friends following the events when one of them arrived cheering. We were a multinational, multiracial and multireligious group. We watched live as the second tower got hit and like the rest of the world we watched […]