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Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson finally responded to Jeff Sach's review of their book Why Nations Fail. It in turn led to a spirited Twitter debate. Here is the debate, warts and all. I will attempt to put it into separate conversations to make it easier to read.
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Ethiopia: Ethiopian Airlines Unveils Business Class Lounge in its Addis Ababa Hub Airport Press Release Ethiopian Airlines opens the first phase of its new business class (Cloud Nine) lounge at its main hub, Addis Ababa Bole International Airport,...
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Ethiopia: Tewolde Gabremariam of Ethiopian Airlines cliched CEO of the Year awardEthiopia: The Africa CEO Forum awards leaders: Ethiopian clinches top prizeSource: Africa ReportThe Africa CEO forum went into overdrive Tuesday night with four...
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Just last week I sat down for a chat with dance music extraordinaire Mylo and up-and-coming singer/producer/DJ, Ronika. The twosome are currently working on a project spearheaded by Bacardi, called Bacardi Beginnings which puts a newcomer to the world of music together with a more established act - resulting in a remix of the newcomer's song by the established artist. In this case, Mylo is remixing Ronika and I met them both during a studio session in east London recently to find out all about the project and how it's all been working on so far...
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From the first time I visited with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1998, Guatemala's natural beauty and the warmth of its people, particularly the strength of its women despite many hardships, have left me with a special affinity for this Central American country. However, it has also long been a place rife with challenges. Even after the 1996 peace accords were signed to end the 36-year internal conflict, Guatemala has continued to struggle with malnutrition, poverty, corruption, organized crime, and high rates of violence against women.
Despite these challenges, my recent visit to the country has convinced me that Guatemala is beginning to address them, particularly gender-based violence (GBV) and other crimes. A big part of this change... more »
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British actor/director Eric Kolelas (Mosa, Fifty Pence) recently collaborated with Chicago-based director Bradley Murray on the visual poem An Intelligent Man. Kolelas' work should be familiar to S&A regulars; all of us may want to start taking notice of Mr. Murray's. If this short visual poem isn't enough to pique your interest in Murray's work, check out his collaborative effort with Chicago-based artist Hebru Brantley, with music by Thelonious Martin. And in the spirit of tomorrow's holiday, thank me.
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It was about 2 weeks ago when Sergio asked that very question - What happened to Queen of Media (that's the film's title)? The $3 million movie loosely-based on Wendy's Got the Heat (a best-selling autobiography by Wendy Williams, detailing her rise to fame - drug addiction, divorce, miscarriages, infidelity, and more) which starred Robin Givens in the title role, and was directed by Furqaan Clover and Richard S. Miller. Shot in 2008/2009, the movie was never released, and was believed to be pretty much dead - at least by those who actually were following its progress (I'd completely forgotten about it until Sergio's post 2 weeks...
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Egyptian Sports Minister El-Amry Farouk: Minimize fan attendance
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Information for our readers in Paris, France, courtesy of the African Women In Cinema blog... Taking place this Friday, November 23 and Saturday, November 24, at the Quai Branly museum - an international colloquium titled "Francophone African Women Filmmakers: 40 Years of Cinema (1972-2012)". The objective of this event is to celebrate the forty years of African filmmaking by African women, starting in 1972, with Angolan director Sarah Maldoror's feature film Sambizanga (which won recognition at the 1973 Berlin International Film Festival; that same year, Michael Kerbel of The Village Voice compared the film to Sergei...
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Residents settled into an uneasy calm today "under our new masters," a day after mutineers from the Congolese army, now leaders of the M23 military wing, forced government troops, or FARDC, out of the city and took control of the lucrative border crossing between Congo and Rwanda. While over a thousand people flocked to Goma stadium to hear from the M23 leaders about their plans, Congolese President Joseph Kabila, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni held emergency meetings in the Ugandan capital aimed at stemming the widening crisis.
"The journey to liberate Congo has started now," M23 spokesman Vianney Kazarama told the crowd gathered at the rally. "We're going to move on to Bukavu and then to Kinshasa. Are you ready to ...
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On November 13, 2012 the U.N./African Union Mission in Darfur, or UNAMID, made the decision to provide "medevac" (medical evacuation) to approximately 12 Sudan Armed Forces soldiers wounded following heavy fighting with rebel forces in North Darfur. The injured were taken to the city of el-Fasher, location of the primary SAF military base in Darfur. Such military clashes between the SAF and rebel forces have been escalating for many months, as has violence against civilians, especially by Khartoum's proxy forces in Darfur. All this occurs even as UNAMID has resolutely insisted that fighting and violence have diminished, thus justifying a draw-down in forces. But the grim truth is that UNAMID can't sustain an adequate security presence for the vast majority of locations in Darfur now ...
Why, then, would UNAMID choose to deploy its already vastly inadequate resources to evacuating Khartoum's combatants? The question is especially exigent since such medevac forms no part of UNAMID's mandate or the lengthy Status of Forces Agreement signed by Khartoum and the U.N./A.U. in February 2008 ...
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