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I have a couple of newish pieces up elsewhere:
At Guernica, a critique of the Obama Administration's new Africa strategy, "Old Ideas for the New Africa."
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My good friend Wendy Noble has kindly hosted me at her blog as part of my effort to market my new Kate Gomolemo Mysteries now available as ebooks. I met Wendy when I just started writing about eight years ago over at Writers Weekly, a forum where I learned a lot about this writing business from people like her.
Here's a bit of my guest post about being a writer in Botswana:
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An inspiring morning with Jide Bello, talking Nigerian culture. I had no idea the Ife exhibition had moved to the National Museum in Lagos. Great publicity Lagos State!
Meanwhile, he showed us some fascinating pictures of a recent trip to Calabar (to witness the filming of Half of a Yellow Sun), including these images of Obong Eyo Honesty IX's house in Duke Town. The descendants of the old King still live in the house, which features beautiful wood panelling and stained glass windows. To think that former governor Donald Duke wasted all that money on Tinapa, which no one visits except to stay in the hotel, when he could have spent a relatively tiny amount of government money renovating the magnificent old buildings of Calabar and turning them into museums. Calabar's tourist potential ...
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Ladies and gents of sunny South Africa...Eita! A truely South African greeting, which is almost guaranteed to earn you extra street cred if you drop it in casual situations. For those of us who have never heard it before, it is pronounced "eight-ah" - it is the modern day version of the very 1990′s: "Howzit". [...]
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If you were not at the iHub on Thursday the 21st between 6pm-8pm, you missed out on an opportunity to interact with Mr. Louis Otieno- Microsoft's GM for East and Southern Africa. Mr. Louis Otieno was quite engaging. He began with a brief background introduction where the audience learned that he studied architecture in the [...]
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In her lucid opinion piece published in The New York Times last week, Séverine Autesserre argues that the international community has gotten it terribly wrong in the Congo. Drawing on an argument laid out in her popular 2010 book, The Trouble with the Congo, Autesserre says that this failure stems from our failure to understand the causes of violence. We have, she argues, for too long obsessed about the national and regional causes of the war, and neglected the local dynamics of conflict. She says about diplomats and UN officials:
They neglect to address the other main sources of violence: distinctively local conflicts over land, grassroots power, status and resources, like cattle, charcoal, timber, drugs and fees levied at checkpoints. Most violence in the Congo is not coordinated ...
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We recently covered Acumen Fund's East Africa Fellows Innovation Conference through our live blog. The innovation conference, which focused on social entrepreneurship and the need for new leadership, captured the zeitgeist of the current dialogue around development in East Africa. The event brought some of the most renowned minds in the space together at the Tribe Hotel in Nairobi, [...]
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I have a couple of newish pieces up elsewhere:
At Guernica, a critique of the Obama Administration's new Africa strategy, "Old Ideas for the New Africa."
[view whole blog post]
In her lucid opinion piece published in The New York Times last week, Séverine Autesserre argues that the international community has gotten it terribly wrong in the Congo. Drawing on an argument laid out in her popular 2010 book, The Trouble with the Congo, Autesserre says that this failure stems from our failure to understand the causes of violence. We have, she argues, for too long obsessed about the national and regional causes of the war, and neglected the local dynamics of conflict. She says about diplomats and UN officials:
They neglect to address the other main sources of violence: distinctively local conflicts over land, grassroots power, status and resources, like cattle, charcoal, timber, drugs and fees levied at checkpoints. Most violence in the Congo is not coordinated ...
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