The New York Times had a great article yesterday on laamb, a style of wrestling popular in Senegal. Laamb, sometimes called “Lutte Senegalese” is enjoying… Read More »Laamb and sumo – what would happen if Senegalese wrestlers came to Japan?
In my class today, celebrated science journalist Alister Doyle shared an insight that crystalized for me a line of thinking I’ve been exploring about media… Read More »An idea worth at least 40 nanoKardashians of your attention
Teju Cole, who just won a prestigious award for his novel “Open City“, offers a brief essay, in Twitter form, as a reaction to Invisible… Read More »Teju Cole on American sentimentality towards Africa
Traduzido para o Português por Natália Mazotte e Bruno Serman This Monday, March 5th, the advocacy organization Invisible Children released a 30 minute video titled… Read More »Unpacking Kony 2012
Wael Abbas himself to the crowd at Microsoft’s Social Media Symposium saying, “I’m just a blogger.” Yeah, and Clay Shirky, who introduces him, is just… Read More »Wael Abbas on video and social media in Egypt prior to the revolution
A few days back, I wrote a post about the Occupy Nigeria movement. As with many of my posts, my main goal was to research… Read More »More thoughts on Occupy Nigeria