So, I decided to pretend that I know something about literature and join the Caine Prize blogathon this year. For an introduction to the blogathon, see Aaron Bady’s post here. My commentary on the first story, Rotimi Babatunde’s Bombay’s Republic (pdf), is below. Other bloggers’ reviews are at the bottom of the page. The first two-thirds of the… Read More »
BBC has a report on the West African soldiers who fought with the British forces in Burma during the second world war: Nigerians made up more than half of the total force of 90,000 West African soldiers deployed to South East Asia after 1943 as part of the British Army’s 81st and 82nd (West Africa)… Read More »
If there was ever any humanitarian reason to overrun a country, the Burmese ruling elite have certainly provided it. How else does one deal with a government that has allowed only a trickle of aid into a disaster-struck area? There are even reports that say that the government might not even know the scale of… Read More »