The first pandemic of the 21st century could come from Africa, rather than Southeast Asia.

On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quickly make that, which was nothing, All.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

These are horrendous developments, whether you're a human or if you're a bird. Everyone wondered what would happen if avian influenza came to Africa, but no one really prepared. They waited. Now it's there -- and this is not the most organized continent in the world.

There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.