[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Bunmi Fatoye-Matory (
Premium Times) interviews Afro-Colombian scholar Nohora Fernández about growing up in Colombia, the Afro-Colombian experience, and her interest in Nigerian literature. She says, “The Afro-Colombian experience is not widely known, and it is quite diverse.” Here are excerpts:
PT: Where were you born?
NAF: I was born in Cartagena, Colombia. Cartagena was one of the most important Spanish harbors for the slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean. A huge number of enslaved people arrived in Cartagena and were then sold to Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and other South America countries. Today, it is considered a black city, probably about 80 per cent of the population is black. I grew up in that city.
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Intel Corp.’s stock lost almost 2% in late trading today as investors digested an eventful second-quarter earnings report and analyst call today.
The American chip giant actually performed well, reporting revenue and profit ahead of both its own and Wall Street’s forecast thanks to strong sales of chips for personal computers. It also raised its end-of-year guidance.
The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.28 per share on revenue of $18.5 billion, up 2% from a year ago. That wasn’t massive growth, but it did come in well ahead of Wall Street’s forecast of $1.06 per share in profit and $17.8 billion in revenue.
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Summary: The traditional geopolitical boundaries that have defined the South Caucasus in the post-Cold War era are shifting as the region becomes increasingly connected to the eastern Mediterranean and wider Middle East.
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Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, the geopolitical boundaries that once marked its former republics are blurring. Treating this space as simply post-Soviet, as Western policymakers have done for the past three decades, is out of date. Undoubtedly, Russia is anything but shy about throwing its weight around the neighborhood. Countries along Russia’s periphery have learned the hard way that they must manage relations with Moscow carefully. But portraying the region simply as part of Russia’s periphery mischaracterizes its principal defining characteristics