Most of her competitors are weary after a long, continent-hopping season, but Semenya is just starting hers after resuming serious training once she was cleared to compete in July.
The unstable history of Latin America, long the continent with the biggest income gaps, suggests that countries run by entrenched wealthy elites do not do very well.
South Africa, long the continent's economic and political powerhouse, is losing status to the west African nation, thanks to its commendably ebullient efforts.
South Africa, long the continent's economic and political powerhouse, is in danger of losing that title to Nigeria, thanks in part to the west African country's ebullient energy.Many Nigerians swat away criticism as misrepresentation.
Experts have long known continents spring upward after shedding glacial ice.
Now is the best chance to head off the creation of more narco-states in Africa and prevent a new scourge from sinking roots in this long-suffering continent.
Yet this is a momentous event in Europe's history: the logical culmination of the tearing down of the Iron Curtain in 1989, making a long-divided continent properly whole again.Plenty of celebrations mark the occasion.
NEXT VICTIM: SOUTH AFRICA Not content with what it has destructively wrought in the Pacific Rim, Russia, Argentina and Turkey, the International Monetary Fund, an equal-opportunity wrecker, is working hard to upend a country whose success is critical to a long-troubled continent.
Not content with what it has destructively wrought in the Pacific Rim, Russia, Argentina and Turkey, the International Monetary Fund, an equal-opportunity wrecker, is working hard to upend a country whose success is critical to a long-troubled continent.
The Little Ice Age amounted to "a long-term, continent-wide agricultural crisis," as Blom writes.
The remains make up one of the largest such collections in what has been a long-running, continent-wide grievance for American Indians.
