Worldview Magazine Online Fall Issue 1999
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The only U.S. magazine that delivers the people, ideas, and events of more than 90 nations of the world that don't appear in the headlines of major U.S. media. WorldView is published four times a year by the National Peace Corps Association to bring you Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Pacific in letters, news, features, opinions, book reviews, and fiction from far away right now.


Sierra Leone

SIERRA LEONE
POWERS LOST


The destruction of traditional
rule in Sierra Leone

By Syl Cheney-Coker
Photographs by Vera Viditz-Ward

"In the past, a young man used to bow in front of a chief," one observor said to me. "Now, armed with an AK-47 rifle, it is the young man who is ordering the chief around."

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  BOOK REVIEWS

A DARK PLACE IN THE JUNGLE
by Linda Spalding
How Birut Galdikas studies Borneo's orangutans and reviews of other recent recent books

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  OTHER STORIES

KASHMIR'S DESIRE
Caught between India and Pakistan, a lost paradise seeks independence
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SPEAKING INCA
Looking beyond the litter and New Age travelers bound for Machu Picchu
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FOLLOWING AZIZ
How a drive into the Sahara went wrong
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MILITARY BEARING
Venezuela's elected president wears a red paratrooper's beret
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AFRICA'S MWALIMU
Ali Mazrui pays tribute to Julius Nyerere
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SORTING IT OUT
A short story from South Africa about fidelity and forgiveness
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