National pride
The football stories are always among the most read in the Nigerian press. This one especially.
Nigeria beat SA on penalties to win 2018 Women's Africa Cup of Nations
Nigeria were crowned the 2018 Women's Africa Cup of Nations champions on Saturday, beating South Africa 4-3 on penalties in the final in Accra.
The match had ended 0-0 after 120 minutes, with Nigeria's goalkeeper Tochukwu Oluehi making the trophy-winning save in the shoot-out from the boot of South Africa's Linda Motlhalo…
The Super Falcons, who came to Ghana as defending champions, retain their dominance in this competition, winning the trophy for a ninth time in eleven editions…
Nigeria and South Africa will now prepare for next year's World Cup in France where they will be joined by Cameroon who booked their place on Friday.
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Reconsidering basics
In the light of recent Islamist terrorism (2014), analyst Fareed Zakaria wrote, in the
The Washington Post, an op-ed column wondering about his perceptions of terrorism in 2001.
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| Zakaria |
Below is a key paragraph. Use that or the whole essay and determine whether Zakaria is using terminology the same way your textbook uses it. Terms like country, state, civil society, nation, national identities, and others.
Does his analysis of his thinking make sense to you? Why? If not, what's missing or inaccurate?
Why they still hate us, 13 years later
What did I miss in that essay 13 years ago? The fragility of these countries. I didn’t recognize that if the dictatorships faltered, the state could collapse, and that beneath the state there was no civil society — nor, in fact, a real nation. Once chaos reigned across the Middle East, people reached not for their national identities — Iraqi, Syrian — but for much older ones: Shiite, Sunni, Kurd and Arab.
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Labels: civil society, concepts, country, nation, national identity, state
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