From electrotechnician to mobile magnate.
Bram Posthumus | September 2004 issue
Nowhere is the market for mobile telephony growing faster than in Africa, which is no surprise. The old-fashioned fixed telephone network barely functions. Particularly in major cities, the only way to reach someone is Read More...
Tijn Touber | May 2005 issue
For as long as I can remember I’ve been hopeful. I always saw a solution, a way out, a better future. But recently I’ve decided I don’t want to be hopeful anymore. I don’t want to wait for a better future. I want to be despairing and hopeless.
But can a Read More...
What soccer can tell us about international politics, economics and culture. A review of 'How Soccer Explains the World.'
Marco Visscher | October 2004 issue
Swedish Parliament Member Lars Gustafsson came up with a remarkable nomination idea for the Nobel Peace Prize: soccer. The sport, he Read More...
Abdul Sattar Ehdi and Bilquis Edhi, who are often praised as Muslim equivalents of Mother Teresa, run what is perhaps the world's largest volunteer organization Jay Dunn | November 2004 issue
Chetan Kumar began to suspect he had cancer a year ago, but kept pushing himself through the dizzy Read More...
George W. Bush's policies have the unintended effect of fighting global warming
Jurriaan Kamp | December 2005 issue
This may be the perfect political paradox: George W. Bush paving the way to do something about global warming. On the face of it, the Bush administration is doing everything Read More...
While Europeans laugh at the U.S. for its "dreams," optimism has long been its most important export. But has that all changed since 9/11?
Thomas L. Friedman | September 2005 issue
Two years ago, my older daughter, Orly, played in her high school’s symphonic orchestra in a suburb of Read More...
Is Nigeria's booming film industry pioneering an Afrocentric cinema or just grinding out third-rate pulp?
Jonathan Kiefer| October 2006 issue
Nigeria’s film industry—or Nollywood, as it’s been dubbed by the media—is the third largest in the world, behind the United States’ Hollywood and Read More...
Water might be the simplest way to prevent many modern illnesses
Tijn Touber | October 2006 issue
In 1979, when the ayatollahs in Iran seized power from the shah, the Iranian doctor Fereydoon Batmanghelidj—like many other intellectuals—ended up in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. One Read More...