It’s been a while since I last did this. Blame it on Twitter and Facebook. And Google Plus. Depending on your social media of your choice, click any of the links to join me there for stuff I share. But for today, the links: 1. The disappearing virtual library Chris Kelty on the shutdown of Library.nu… Read More »
1.Immigrant networks are a rare bright spark in the world economy. Rich countries should welcome them – The Economist 2. What’s your flavour? Italian or Spanish? – BBC Business Editor 3. Black France – Africa is a country 4. The dangerous cocktail of global money and local politics – Moisés Naím 5. On Nigeria’s Petroleum… Read More »
Werner Herzog, whose movie Nosferatu the Vampyre I saw over a long train ride a couple of weeks ago, talks at length about film-making, his new movie Into the Abyss, his hatred of capital punishment (one of the reasons he doesn’t want to apply for American citizenship), and how movies don’t change anything (he says that his… Read More »
Robert P. Crease, author of World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement, writes in the NYT: In one kind of measuring, we find how big or small a thing is using a scale, beginning point and unit. Something is x feet long, weighs y pounds or takes z seconds. We can… Read More »
Manan Ahmed in The National: Both Stewart and Mortenson illustrate one particular configuration of the relationship between knowledge and the American empire – the “non-expert” insider who can traverse that unknown terrain and, hence, become an “expert”. Even a cursory examination of the archive dealing with the American efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan demonstrates… Read More »
1. Unsere Frauen bleiben frei! – On Islamophobia in Berlin 2. Threat to bomb 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos? Yes, it has something to do with Boko Haram. 3. Why Nigeria recognised Libya transition council – Minister for foreign affairs explains 4. On Libyan revolutionaries and racism. See also Jina Moore on the same topic… Read More »
1. Don’t ignore Tim Cook’s (Apple’s new CEO) sexuality 2. Why is China afraid of Lady Gaga? 3. Senegal under Wade 4. What the Harvard English department is frequently asked 5. NaijaLeaks: A sad decade of an ineffective anti-corruption crusade
1. Angry Birds maker Rovio worth $1.2 Billion 2. Is Africa leaving Europe behind? 3. What do the sale figures of the $80 android smartphone in Kenya tell us about the future of the smartphone market? 4. Does marijuana make you stupid? 5. Who doesn’t want one of these?
1. A series exploring the realities of life in Europe for African migrants – Al Jazeera 2. The number of attempted suicides is five times as high among young Turkish-German women than their ethnic German counterparts – Der Spiegel 3. Dissent in China (on Chinese citizens’ response to the train crash in Wenzhou) – The… Read More »
1. Another one strikes black gold (trying desperately to resist using the line from Queen’s popular song) 2. Can stocks be safer than bonds (strange times, right?) 3. Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, formerly of World Bank, then of Nigeria’s finance ministry, then of World Bank, returns to take charge of Nigeria’s economy 4. Commentary on Islamic finance… Read More »