Google in China: any cause for hope?
As you’ve doubtless heard half a dozen times so far today, Google has launched a new service in China. For years, Google has provided a… Read More »Google in China: any cause for hope?
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How blog comments can eat your morning
And this is why comments rock. I wrote the other day about a translation of the 23rd Psalm into Nigerian pidgin. Robbie Honerkamp, a US-based… Read More »How blog comments can eat your morning
It’s never to cold to riot in Ulaanbaatar!
It’s been a lively 48 hours in Mongolia, a country where it’s never too cold for political tumult. On Wednesday, ten ministers in Prime Minister… Read More »It’s never to cold to riot in Ulaanbaatar!
Remittance – the big business of sending money home
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
Chinese trade with Africa – good or bad news?
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?
DRC – 3.8 million dead. Darfur?
I wrote a couple of days back about my sense of guilt at not covering the plight of Sudanese refugees in Cairo more carefully. Thinking… Read More »DRC – 3.8 million dead. Darfur?