BusinessDay: There is going to be lots of jobs and racketeering during the period. Artisans would make more money and thugs will have more jobs to do for their principals which would mean more money for them. The list of those that will benefit is endless. Election campaign involves a lot of activities which include… Read More »
About politicians and courage: Courage is always missing in politicians. It is like saying basketball players aren’t normally short. It isn’t a useful attribute. To be morally courageous is to say something different, which reduces your chances of winning an election. Courage is in a funny way more common in an old-fashioned sort of enlightened… Read More »
1. An impending UK bonds market crisis might be worse than the Greek debt crisis – Telegraph H/T Keith Hart 2. Haiti, two months after the earthquake – Global Voices blog review 3. Why are religious films making a come-back? – Guardian 4. Morgan Tsvangirai defends Zimbabwe’s indigenisation laws – AllAfrica 5. Should Germany change… Read More »
Mugabe “thanked the Chinese embassy for its painstaking preparations for the birthday celebration and … hoped to further expand friendly cooperative relations in every field between the two nations”, the foreign ministry said. The ministry’s website (www.mfa.gov.cn) showed pictures of Mugabe cutting a birthday cake in front of a large sign wishing him “Happy 86th… Read More »
… is the title of a review of anthropologists Jean and Jean Comaroff’s book, Ethnicity, INC. An excerpt of the review: From the very beginning of their study, the authors ask us to take a step back and stop thinking about ethnicity only as a political tool. Rather, we should extend new attributes and opportunities… Read More »
Where next for Political Science in Africa? Debating Patrick Chabal’s ‘Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling’ [link downloads a pdf file].
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
BBc’s Matt Frei on Senator Obama: And although Obama is really quite down to earth and millions of Americans would love to sit down with him for a drink and a chat, they might be too awestruck and hamstrung to think of anything to say, for fear of sounding crass, offensive or stupid. Policies apart,… Read More »
This is an article I first read on Nigeria Village Square, but later found out that it was originally from ocnus.net. I thought to post it here for comments. I am not an expert on CFA, but I am trying to learn as much as possible about it. So I’m waiting for your comments! The… Read More »
A More Perfect Union, a speech delivered by Senator Barack Obama at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday March 18, 2008. The video is here, and the transcript below. “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a… Read More »