1. The financial crisis, a view from a Brazilian barrio
2. The British Social Science Research Council‘s African Argument’s blog has a Citizenship Debate series
3. Shitting on Hope: Obama and the Peace Controversy
4. A really interesting episode of This American Life, in which the producers try to understand the healthcare debate and the relationship between doctors and patients. You might also subscribe to the podcast
5. Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing (Jerome E. Groopman at the New York Review of Books)
6. Deutsche Welle asks whether Ghana can shake off the oil curse
7. A tribute to someone who did so much for the development of paediatrics in Nigeria