Abstract

Half a century ago, the more optimistic poet-militants of decolonization imagined the world's races humanely detonated, then shuffl ed and reassembled into a hybrid creature of the universal. On one issue at least, today's African Union, Arab League, and U.N. have indeed become one: one monstrous chimera ready and willing to let Darfur be cleansed of Africa. Wole Soyinka has some words to say about this—well, actually, just one.

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