by Kehinde Togun This summer, I visited Nigeria for the first time since moving to the United States at 11 years old. On a personal and developmental level, the experience was amazing. I had not seen my sister and most of my relatives since I left. I relished the time spent reacquainting myself with loved […]
Corruption Makes Brazil Think Twice: Lula Faces Runoff
by Jake Ward On October 1, presidential hopeful Geraldo Alckmin achieved what analysts earlier had predicted to be virtually impossible, squeezing out a second-place victory in preliminary elections. Now, Alckmin, of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, faces a runoff against incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – popularly known as “Lula”, the Portuguese word for […]