There are some points I’m happy to concede to Dr. Thomas Barnett – that disconnection from the global economy and media leads to danger, for… Read More »Darfur: Where’s Europe?

I was driving home from the Albany train station last night at 2am, feeling grateful that our local NPR station becomes (for all practical purposes)… Read More »If the Jamaicans can bobsled, the Ghanaians can ski

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Canadian reporter for the Associated Press, living in Dakar, Senegal and, apparently, having the time of his life in a town… Read More »Great new African music blog

The Global Voices meeting was an amazing success – it’s hard to explain just how cool it was to meet blogging pioneers from all around… Read More »Global Voices

Jim Moore has an interesting commentary on the post I made a couple of days back about Ghana’s election. (Jon Lebowsky has picked up the… Read More »Ghana’s election, and hopes for Darfur?