Emeka Okafor, of Timbuktu Chronicles fame, highlights a paper about the Nigerian diaspora on his new blog, Africa Unchained. The paper, by Nigerian scholar Uche… Read More »Remittance – the big business of sending money home
I’ve been playing with PubSub for a few months now, ever since Jay Rosen told me that he was using it as a complement to… Read More »Pubsub’s “community lists” and thoughts on ranking local blogospheres
My friend and colleague Janet Haven writes that she’s heading to Uganda this week, to the Tactical Technology Africa Source conference. I’m doubly sorry that… Read More »What to watch in the Ugandan election
I’m a firm believer that a positive transformation of the African continent will come from increased trade, both between African nations and with other continents.… Read More »Chinese trade with Africa – good or bad news?
I couldn’t figure out anything to write to help contextualize this (soul-crushingly depressing) story about sex tourism in West Africa. Fortunately, Sokari could, and did.
Hanging out with geeky friends Nate and Beth, we got talking about technical customer support experiences. I had a horrible, then excellent service experience recently… Read More »A completely impractical idea for making phone tech support better