If you’re interested in African issues, you’ve spent time thinking about this question: “Why is Africa poor?” One of my favorite development economists – Nancy… Read More »Maize, fish, ice, oil and AK-47s – reading the news about Africa and trade
Some stories around the African continent, in blogs and news, that have caught my attention over the past few days. – “idland”, the blog of… Read More »Once around the continent, quickly…
I write a great deal about nations that get insufficient attention in the global media. I’d planned to write something soon about the upcoming elections… Read More »Watching Invisible Belarus
Oooh! Scary! Share your wireless access and you might let your neighbors “peer into files containing sensitive financial and personal information, release malicious viruses and… Read More »Boo! Scary open wireless networks! Run! Hide!
Lydia Polgreen, writing in the NY Times “Week in Review“, is fascinated by an apparent paradox – Africans, who objectively have some of the worst… Read More »Why hope in Africa is not a paradox.
As part of my talk in DC on Wednesday, I spoke about the Kenyan blogosphere, its dynamism and its relationship to the Kenyan press, which… Read More »Eating my words