Gal Beckerman of the Columbia Journalism Review takes a swing at Vanity Fair’s Africa issue, alongside dozens of African and Afrophile bloggers, including yours truly.… Read More »Pushing the hippo out of the frame…
If oil has the potential to destabilize or grow a nation’s economy, very few economists are concerned with the negative economic impact of wind power.… Read More »A new wind blowing in Africa
Bono wants the world to care more about Africa. So do I. After that, it gets a bit harder to see eye to eye. Bono… Read More »Judging a magazine by its cover
It’s three days after the TED conference, and I’ve had two days to enjoy a rainy, but very beautiful, Cape Town and do some digesting… Read More »Digesting TED Global – I’m still chewing
Conferences like TED Global are only a couple of days long, but I find I can get surprisingly used to them – wake up, absorb… Read More »TED Global 2007 – Goodbye and thanks
Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the sort of visionary African leader everyone on stage and in the crowd would wish for Africa. She’s… Read More »Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala with the last word on aid