a major victory for the South African government -- and the rest of the continent -- over the drugs companies.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Mbeki says what he and the others are looking for from the G8 now are concrete projects that will help Africa out of poverty -- clean water, better health delivery, improving agriculture and education and structures for peace and security and good governance,

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.