Bono on Obama’s Trip to Ghana Holocaust: The Ignored Reality A nice take on Googles proposed Chrome OS. Largely agree with it. A review of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno. See also this and this. (Both from Der Spiegel.) On lingua franca and Nigerian pidgin English. (See the comments.) My friend Kola discusses Nigerian pidgin English
An allAfrica.com interview of the American president. Hat-tip to Jeremy
1. Open Anthropology Cooperative – a network of anthropologists and anybody who is interested in anthropology 2. The new issue of the open access journal Anthropology Matters is out. You can check it out here 3. Want to read more on Ms Moyo’s Dead Aid? See this, this and this. For a brief roundup of… Read More »
I just got this article through my Twitter friend @crystalsimeoni. I like it so much that I decided to post it here. The full text: Good or bad, the African university is all we have Keguro Macharia’s article “African universities crippling their students’ (The EastAfrican — December 29, 2008-January 4, 2009) pricked me. I found… Read More »
1. If you have any interest at all in anthropology, go and check out the Open Anthropology Cooperative 2. Financial secrets of the world’s poorest people 3. The global economic crisis and human rights 4. A report on microfinance 5. What happens when medicine is seen as business, and doctors become businessmen 6. Jeffrey Sachs… Read More »
Maybe a fallout of the current global crisis is a kindler, gentler IMF. The Fund just published a staff position note titled Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis The executive summary: The global financial crisis poses significant challenges to fiscal policies in Sub-Saharan African countries. Growth will… Read More »
1. What would happen if marijuana were decriminalized? 2. Anthropology, Islam and homosexuality 3. In Nigeria, thousands flee violence, hundreds suspected dead 4. Child sexual abuse requires greater parental indignation 5. Do you want to read Nigerian blogosphere fiction? Check out Waffarian’s piece for NigeriansTalk 6. Seun Kuti comes of age
is a cooperative of anthropologists who are interested in collaborations across space (I almost added time!), using different kinds of media. It is still in the formative stage so anthropologists, or anybody who is interested in anthropology, should please join the discussion by clicking here.
Through the Freakonomics blog, I learnt of business cards of Chicago street gangs of the 1970s and 1980s. Really interesting bunch. Check them out at the We Are Supervision blog.
1. So, an orangutan at the Heidelberg Zoo has just released a CD. 2. Thatcher’s Britain. 3. How Google Earth explains the financial crisis. 4. Darfur and the Congo: Why the Media Disparity? 5. The dangers in operating an export-led economy. 6. Cascading crises follow the global financial crisis in poor countries.