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Today in Misuses of Legislative Authority 13 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
Joining Ugandan lawmakers’ most recent effort to ban mini-skirts in the “asinine interference with our freedoms” legislative initiatives file, local authorities in Kisumu, Kenya are considering a bill...
WTF Friday, 8/9/2013 9 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
You know what worries me? When governments announce the restriction of certain groups’ access to public spaces, and justify it by saying that they’re preventing a scenario in which “[the dangerous min...
To My Great Surprise, I Kind of Love This Charity Ad 8 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
When a tipster sent me this ad for the charity Water is Life, I had every expectation that I would hate it. The gimmick sounded kind of gross: because 1 in 5 Kenyan children don’t reach their 5th bir...
Time for a Bechdel Test for African Characters? Some Thoughts on the Newsroom’s Very Special Africa Episode 7 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
The Newsroom went to Africa. It was not good. In Sunday’s episode, “Unintended Consequences,” ACN sent a reporter named Maggie and a cameraman named Gary Cooper to Uganda to do a segment on the U.S. ...
Chauncey, End Poverty! 6 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
This is Jefferson Mok‘s awesome Burundi dog, Chauncey: He moved to New York about a year ago, and apparently his prodigious skills have been going to waste ever since. Jefferson asked for our help co...
Gulu’s Girls Gone Wild 5 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
According to this op-ed in The Observer, a new scourge has replaced LRA raiding parties in northern Uganda: horny teenage girls. Sam Agona, “ICT and social behavioural expert,” reports that once the ...
WTF Friday, 8/2/13 3 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
This week’s WTF Friday traveled to the blog via Metro-North from New Haven. Yale University has released its latest Sexual Misconduct Report, which manages to avoid using the terms “rape” or “sexual a...
The Senate Should Confirm Nina Pillard Already 1 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
I wholeheartedly support Cornelia “Nina” Pillard’s nomination for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, because she is awesome. Professor Pillard taught two of my classes at Georgetown, so I can say from...
WTF Friday, 7/26/13 27 Jul 2013 | 01:13 am
In Germany, controversy has erupted over the town of Schwaebisch Gmuend’s plan to pay African asylum seekers 1.05 euros per hour to work as porters in the local train station: “Nine predominantly dar...
Are You Ready for the Zimbabwe Elections? 23 Jul 2013 | 11:56 pm
Zimbabwe goes to the polls next week amidst reports of an “alarming clampdown” by security forces loyal to long-time (seriously, it’s been a really long time) incumbent Robert Mugabe. Apparently, we’...
