Watching Invisible Belarus
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
Boo! Scary open wireless networks! Run! Hide!
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!
Why hope in Africa is not a paradox.
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.
Eating my words
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
Museveni “wins”
I predicted that Museveni would get 55% of the popular vote and claim victory without a runoff in Uganda’s elections, and that the opposition would… Read More »Museveni “wins”
The words China doesn’t want to hear
The Washington Post has published a list of 236 keywords considered sensitive by Chinese censors. 18 of these words are obscenities – the rest are… Read More »The words China doesn’t want to hear