When President Mutharika moved out of his absurd, 300-room palace in Lilongwe because he – reportedly – was troubled by ghostly rodents crawling over his… Read More »Ghostly rodents and journalistic detention
Mark Jones of AlertNet has an excellent visualization of media attention imbalance as concerns the December 26th tsunami and other major international crises. Using data… Read More »The Asian Tsunami and Media Attention
The BBC has an excellent story today on the “Wonder Welders” of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The welders are a group of wheelchair-bound men, crippled… Read More »African Welding, African Weblogs
Conservative commentators are looking for all possible evidence that US involvement in Iraq is leading to waves of democratization around the world, reaching for examples… Read More »CAR elections, and credit to African nations when they get it right
The New York Times has been running an excellent, if sporadic, series of articles on the global garment industry and the implications of the end… Read More »Why Lesotho Cares about China – and why you might, as well
Kofi Annan’s speech at the “extraordianary plenary session” of the Club de Madrid meeting on Terrorism, Democracy and Security\ was surprisingly meaty. I was expecting… Read More »In which I attempt to cover Kofi Annan’s speech