‘If we don’t rehabilitate reason, we will not be able to fix our broken world’
Achille Mbembe is the first African scholar
to win the prestigious Gerda Henkel Prize. He was recently interviewed by historian Andreas Eckert
Dusselsdorf
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Tackling the curse of the chain letter
Many try to arouse sympathies, while others promise quick riches. Whatever the ploy, the fact is that e-mail hoaxes can spread like wildfire using the power of the Internet. Many fabrications sent by e-mail sound believable, others completely
absurd, while others are even dangerous.
