Prague is almost oppressively beautiful. Despite the cold wind and damp, which occasionally rises to the level of mist (a friend describes it as “pub… Read More »Enough about me. Read some of my favorite bloggers.
The only thing better than televised condom advertisements? Televised condom advertisements with some political humor thrown in. Pronto Condoms are the project of a South… Read More »Shower time!
China rolled out the red carpet for 48 African leaders this past week, hosting a three-day summit to commemorate fifty years of diplomatic relations between… Read More »Africa in China: No to Taiwan, Yes to Infrastructure
My friend Andrew Rens sent me a troubling story from Zimbabwe – “Mugabe’s spies to infiltrate internet cafés“. According to this Mail and Guardian story,… Read More »Spying on Zimbabwe’s cybercafes
One of the best observations I’ve ever heard about African economics came from Dr. Nancy Birdsall, director of the Center for Development Economics in Washington,… Read More »Regional integration as a strategy for African development
My friend Dumisani Nyoni was frustrated by coverage of the death of P.W. Botha, the former president of South Africa under Apartheid. Botha, unlike his… Read More »Remembering those we’d rather forget