Vanity Fair articles from July 2007

Vanity Fair archives from July 2007

At the Desert's Edge; Where Africa faces Europe, on the ruins of Carthage's mighty civilization, Tunisia is holding fast against encroaching desert-and fundamentalism's arid tyranny.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Christopher Hitchens If we all indeed come from Africa, then the very idea of Africa itself comes from the antique northern coast of that great landmass, where the cosmology is subtly different and where the inhabitants look north...

Out of Africa; Somewhere between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, Africa saved Homo sapiens from extinction.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Spencer Wells Do you think you know who you are? Maybe Irish, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, or one of the dozens of other hyphenated Americans that make up the United States melting pot? Think deeper-beyond the past few hundred years....

Vanity Fair Nominates Buffett Siblings.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Bobby Shriver While their father, the investor and current Vanity Fair cover subject, was compiling his legendary investment record, their mother, Susan, got each of them started. Thinking about pro-social ideas. She was working!...

Vanity Fair Nominates One Campaign.(One: The Campaign to Make Poverty History)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Evgenia Peretz What does Agnes Nyamayarwo, a Ugandan nurse, have in common with Shayne Moore, an Evangelical soccer mom from the Midwest? As volunteers with the One campaign, they understand the fact that hundreds of millions...

The Continental Shelf.(SLS Kenya/Kwani? Literary Festival, Nairobi)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Elissa Schappell, Rob Spillman It seems everywhere one goes these days-coffee shops, bookstores, all the right parties-those in the know are buzzing about an African Literary Renaissance. Much like the literary scene of India in the...

Enter China, the Giant; Desperate for Africa's oil, China has been investing hundreds of billions of dollars in pariah regimes-most controversially, Sudan-then selling them the weapons to stay in power.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Sebastian Junger The rebels came out of the eastern desert in a column of pickup trucks a hundred vehicles long and were not spotted until they had crossed most of Chad. The trucks were rumored to have come from a Chinese oil base,...

Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream; Jeffrey Sachs-visionary economist, savior of Bolivia, Poland, and other struggling nations, adviser to the U.N. and movie stars-won't settle for less than the global eradication of extreme poverty.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Nina Munk In the respected opinion of Jeffrey David Sachs-distinguished Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University, director of the Earth Institute, and special adviser to the secretary-general of the...

Terry Pheto.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Krista Smith AGE: 26. PROVENANCE: Vaal Triangle, South Africa. WALKED THE RED CARPET AT THE 2006 ACADEMY AWARDS... on account of her starring role in Tsotsi, which won the Oscar for best foreign-language film. WALKED IT LIKE SHE...

The Ugly American; Earnest.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Chris Rock One day I was at home listening to the Three 6 Mafia interview on Imus, and I got a call from my good friend Bono. He told me, "The good people at Vanity Fair said I could be guest editor this month and devote the whole...

Liya Rising.(Liya Kebede)(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Byline: George Wayne Ethiopian-born model Liya Kebede, 29, was praised by the fashion world as the very embodiment of modern beauty when she became the first woman of color to be named the face of Estee Lauder, in 2003. Now a wife and a...

The Lazarus Effect; Dedicated to providing lifesaving drugs to Africans with AIDS, through a partnership between the Global Fund and companies such as Apple, Armani, and Gap, (Product) Red could be a revolution in consumer-driven philanthropy.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Alex Shoumatoff A Population on the Mend I am not sure what I expected to find inside the AIDS ward at the Kinyinya Health Center, but it sure wasn't empty beds. This local government facility sits on a hilltop on the outskirts...

Congo from the Cockpit; When a country the size of Western Europe has only 300 miles of paved roads, almost anything with two wings, a tail, and an engine will do-aviation codes be damned.(Business Aviation, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
July 1, 2007... Byline: William Langewiesche The country formerly known as Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the D.R.C., is an aeronautical paradise if only because it gives old airplanes a chance to keep flying after elsewhere...

Showtime in the Sahara; When six fans of West African music, including Jimmy Buffett and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, head for Timbuktu, in Mali, anything can happen: an impromptu reunion of the Super Rail Band; a Buffett duet with top female star Oumou Sangare; a mind-blowing festival in the middle of the Sahara, capped by the revolutionary band Tinariwen.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Tom Freston Monday TO BAMAKO The city of Dakar lies at the westernmost tip of Africa, on the big continental bulge that juts out to the left on the map. We flew over it at night, on a flight from the Cape Verde Islands....

Echoes of Africa Youssou N'Dour's personal playlist; Youssou N'Dour, 47, a native of Senegal, shot to world-music superstardom in the 1980s, boosted by a soaring voice, a signature "Afro-pop" sound, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel.(List)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Youssou N'dour 1. "LI MA WEESU," BY YOUSSOU N'DOUR. This song is about the mirror of memory. 2. "Senegal Fast Food," by Amadou & Mariam. The "blind couple of Mali" serves up a slice of life in Dakar (Senegal's capital), where a...

Quincy Jones; Parallel in magnitude to his music career, Quincy Jones's humanitarian efforts have left an indelible mark across the globe.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... What is your idea of perfect happiness? To see the children of the world receive their God-given rights. As Tolstoy said, "I shall not eat my piece of bread until everyone has a piece of their own." No one should starve while we eat. ...

Annie Get Your Passport.(Editorial)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Graydon Carter Before Bono takes the floor, I want to say a few words about our esteemed guest editor and how this special issue on Africa came about. We first met at a small dinner given by Robert De Niro sometime after 9/11. Bono...

"It's Bono, on Line One"; The 21 people who put their famous faces to work for this issue say it all.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Lisa Robinson For this special issue, Graydon Carter, Bono, and Annie Leibovitz collaborated on the unprecedented set of 20 covers to show a prominent group of people having a "conversation" about Africa. "It's a visual chain...

Earth Matters.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... Like it or not, the environment is the most important issue of our time. Nuclear proliferation comes close, but that's because nuclear destruction is an environmental problem. We need to limit population growth and radically limit consumption...

The Cultural Divide July.(Brief article)(Calendar)
July 1, 2007... 03 The Darfur/Darfur exhibition continues its 24-month journey across the globe, spreading outrage about the genocide happening in Sudan. The show, on display at Milan's Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, features hundreds of images from...

Raising Malawi.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Punch Hutton Madonna has done her homework. And her fieldwork. She first visited Malawi in April 2006 after Victoria Keelan, a native Malawian businesswoman, reached out to her because of the work Madonna has done with Spirituality...

Hot Tracks.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Lisa Robinson From rock star to rocking chair, this summer's concert attractions cover a not-so-instant replay of years-sometimes decades-gone by. It's been 40 years since the Monterey Pop Festival (resurrected as a DVD boxed set)...

Generation Kenya; The media often treat Africa's 53 countries as a vast, hopeless mass.(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Binyavanga Wainaina If you asked me, today, to tell you the most urgent and pressing story about my country, Kenya, I would tell you the story of the 1990s. Kenya got independence from Great Britain in 1963. During the next two...