Tag: Development
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Telling America’s Story to the World
An author and former diplomat reflects on his hometown, his earliest career failure, and how Peace Corps helped him overcome it to tell America’s story abroad
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Podcast Highlighting American Soft Power
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Conversations with diplomats, development workers, PCVs, authors, and entrepreneurs, highlight how American soft power strengthens our global standing.
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Cold War Peace Corps
Ben East shares a story about Parker Borg, tapped by Ronald Regan to be U.S. Ambassador in Mali, the first Returned Peace Corps Volunteer in such a position
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Shortlisted for International Book Prize
The Dundee International Book Prize announced their short list for 2014. Sea Never Dry, my novel about dirty cops and drug trafficking in West Africa, made the list. Thick with spies and fetish priests, Internet fraudsters and the Ghanaian orphans turning a buck on Accra’s e-waste ash heaps, Sea Never Dry centers on the conflict between Western development efforts and…
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