1. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Subprime Borrowers. See also Ken Opalo’s comment on the issue 2. Defeating global poverty is the latest start-up trend. But is there really an app for that? And Felix Salmon comments on the piece 3. “Ghanaians Like Sex Too Much to Be Homophobic” 4. Indian cotton textiles in the eighteenth-century Atlantic economy 5. A Surprisingly Moving Performance… Read More »
The comment boards of articles about immigration are often filled with heart-wrenching stories of American engineers who can’t find employment. They too blame foreigners for their woes. So what gives? Could there indeed be a vast conspiracy by the technology industry to exclude Americans from the innovation economy? The truth is we’re not seeing the… Read More »
1. The Late James Gandolfini, Star of The Sopranos, Appears on Inside the Actors Studio (2004) 2. ‘Jews Aren’t Allowed to Use Phones’: Berlin’s Most Unsettling Memorial 3. Oil companies in emerging markets 4. The case for an African customs union 5. How English sounds to non-English speakers
Here. H/T Felix Girke on FB.
Been quite busy these past few months. Which does not mean that I haven’t been reading a lot of great articles that are worthy of sharing, or even that I haven’t been sharing quite a bit of them. I’ve been sharing, but mostly on FB (‘friend’ me if you use FB) and Twitter (follow me… Read More »
by lagbaja
It is somewhat depressing to have to say this, but in the light of the reaction to the Woolwich attack (see this article, contains today’s Guardian frontpage), and the fact that the attackers were promptly tagged as Islamic terrorists, it probably needs to be said over and over again: There are more than a billion… Read More »
Ethnographic research with African traders and migrants in China. Research appetite adequately whetted by: Ghanaian merchant Ben Owusu-Achiaw said many of the African companies he works with have moved away from simple import-export operations because of competition from Chinese merchants. “Go to Makola Market,” he said, referring to the biggest trading center in Accra. “Chinese traders have all the best stores.”… Read More »
Wikipedia.
I wrote this for Chimurenga Chronic a while ago: Since the 1970s, the importation of second-hand clothing has been banned in Nigeria. People give different reasons for the policy. An official of Nigerian Customs told me the practice was banned because they are dirty clothes picked from the streets of Europe, something unfit for Nigerians… Read More »