1. First of all, Happy Open Access Anthropology Day! 2. The danger in being listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO 3. Edmund Phelps defends capitalism 4. Somalia investigation into Italian aid fronting for toxin dumping 5. Applied anthropology career resources 6. Jeffrey Sachs on Water Wars
Sometime ago I wrote a post about my efforts to understand the Nigerian oil industry. Some Next reporters have done an article on their efforts to understand the industry. Nobody seems to know how much Nigerian exports, or how much it makes from oil: Even a cursory check by NEXT has revealed that various agencies… Read More »
… Amartya Sen’s piece, Capitalism Beyond the Crisis, at the New York Times Book Review of Books website. He defends Adam Smith, cautions about Keynes and re-introduces Cecil Pigou. Which kinda made me ask why there was no mention of Polanyi.
Iceland’s men wrecked the economy. Can women fix it? Measuring the growth of new media. The rise of the Beijing Consensus. Why Time and Newsweek are not The Economist. On the state of news magazines. The Economist on South African elections. Making ethics training ethnography-friendly.
Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next? – Eric Hobsbawm Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association defends Swiss banking Wale Adebanwi on Arab view of non-Arabs and non-Muslims Is South Africa going the Zimbabwe way? The Sarkozy view of other world leaders Still on that Nigerian president’s health thing
Danny Glover and Forest Whitaker become Igbo chiefs Think capitalism is dead? The Pendulum Will Swing Back. What happens if the Nigerian president dies? Why do micro states flourish? The Story of Nigerian ‘Untouchables’ Still on the Twitter craze
The bottom billion blog says Africa is open for business. Didn’t know it was ever closed, but…. Paul Krugman: China is in a dollar trap. The IMF is still busy cleaning up its image. Dominique Strauss-Kahn writes about a lending overhaul. On Obama’s Special Olympics gaffe . And, Nigeria records first all-female crew flight.
A somewhat optimistic look at Africa and the global economic crisis. A reflection on reporting from Africa Madagascar and African Union’s increasing dilemma. Eastern Europe’s Economic Crash. The IMF is battling stigma. Ethnography of Wall Street.
Last week we commissioned Akin to do a review of the coverage of the Nigerian re-branding excercise by bloggers and he delivered a really beautiful post. Please go over to NigeriansTalk.org to have a look at it. Probably the only group of people who have covered the re-branding excercise very well are bloggers. There are… Read More »
Have you seen this editorial from The Nigerian Guardian? See an excerpt: Africans have a right to say ‘no’ to a movement whose ultimate outcome will be the destruction of the family. Homosexuals are claiming that men can marry themselves. If everyone followed their example, would they have even been born? Looking at the debate,… Read More »