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It is somewhat depressing to have to say this, but in the light of the reaction to the Woolwich attack (see this article, contains today's Guardian frontpage), and the fact that the attackers were promptly tagged as Islamic terrorists, it probably needs to be said over and over again: There [...]
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I wrote this for Chimurenga Chronic a while ago: Since the 1970s, the importation of second-hand clothing has been banned in Nigeria. People give different reasons for the policy. An official of Nigerian Customs told me the practice was banned because they are dirty clothes picked from the streets of [...]
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Mariya Ivancheva in CriticAtac To make an analogy between Chávez's social democracy and the "totalitarian" socialism in Eastern Europe is an easy task mostly for the representatives of organizations and media who side with the Venezuelan opposition. Students and NGO activists sponsored by international organizations have traveled across the Western [...]
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Zoë Keating performing Escape Artist. This is her website.
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The hope, dear blog reader, is that by posting this here, it will finally leave me alone.
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Finally, something that I can agree with. If we want to fetishise numbers we should at least try to get them right. Morten Jerven at FP: Today, due to the uneven application of methods and poor availability of data, any ranking of countries by GDP is misleading. The basic problem [...]
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Via Africa is a Country's Top Ten African Music Videos of 2012.
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Of course they are: A paper from the Centre for the Study of African Economies suggests that savvy Chinese companies have set up shop in Africa as a route to get their products into the US, with the added incentive of all those juicy AGOA benefits. The logic is impeccable. Not only [...]
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From a new report by the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa on external funding of infrastructure projects in Africa: In 2011 total external financial commitments/investments in African Infrastructure declined to 2009 levels. Overall commitments totalled US$41.5billion - a decline of 26% compared with 2010 figures. Commitments from ICA Members declined by 56% to [...]
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