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Been quite busy these past few months. Which does not mean that I haven't been reading a lot of great articles that are worthy of sharing, or even that I haven't been sharing quite a bit of them. I've been sharing, but mostly on FB ('friend' me if you use [...]
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Ethnographic research with African traders and migrants in China. Research appetite adequately whetted by: Ghanaian merchant Ben Owusu-Achiaw said many of the African companies he works with have moved away from simple import-export operations because of competition from Chinese merchants. "Go to Makola Market," he said, referring to the biggest trading center in Accra. "Chinese traders [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I attended the launch of Oil Contracts: How to Read and Understand them, a BookSprints book by OpenOil, a Berlin-based energy consultancy and publishing house. They basically got ten people with different expertise on the oil sector - corporate lawyers, energy activists, government negotiators - [...]
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As we are reminded by Chinua Achebe of the atrocities that led to the Biafra War, and the horror that the war was, we should also not forget the era that it heralded - that of humanitarianism: Since Biafra, humanitarianism has become the idea, and the practice, that dominates Western [...]
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This is Rokia Traoré's wikipedia page. This is her website.
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