When President Mutharika moved out of his absurd, 300-room palace in Lilongwe because he – reportedly – was troubled by ghostly rodents crawling over his… Read More »Ghostly rodents and journalistic detentions
Mark Jones of AlertNet has an excellent visualization of media attention imbalance as concerns the December 26th tsunami and other major international crises. Using data… Read More »The Asian Tsunami and Media Attention
The BBC has an excellent story today on the “Wonder Welders” of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The welders are a group of wheelchair-bound men, crippled… Read More »African Welding, African Weblogs
danah boyd just gave a wonderful answer to a question that’s fascinated me for a while: why are there so many Brazilians on Orkut? danah’s… Read More »danah explains Brazil
As promised yesterday, I’ve done a “proper” review of economist Pietra Rivoli’s book on global trade policy, “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global… Read More »Review of Pietra Rivoli’s “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy”
Conservative commentators are looking for all possible evidence that US involvement in Iraq is leading to waves of democratization around the world, reaching for examples… Read More »CAR elections, and credit to African nations when they get it right