Dear Prime Minister Zenawi – I realise this letter is arriving at a particularly busy time for your administration. Simply keeping track of the more… Read More »A modest proposal for Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Two must-read posts: Sokari Ekine offers a roundup of posts around the African blogosphere reflecting on the persistence of racism and the legacy of Martin… Read More »Two posts worth your time
Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) was West Africa’s economic success story in the early 1990s. When I lived in Ghana in 1993-4, Ivory Coast was where… Read More »Cote d’Ivoire lurches towards civil war
My friend Bruno Giussani has just made me feel better that I didn’t receive an invitation to the World Economic Forum in Davos this year.… Read More »“Blogging” Davos
Elijah Zarwan, an American human rights activist who lives in Cairo, has been following the protest by Sudanese refugees against discrimination and mistreatment in Egpyt,… Read More »Elijah on Sudanese refugees in Cairo
And this is why comments rock. I wrote the other day about a translation of the 23rd Psalm into Nigerian pidgin. Robbie Honerkamp, a US-based… Read More »How blog comments can eat your morning