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Links I Find Interesting 16 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
1. Teju Cole’s Letter from Lagos: Madmen and Specialists 2. How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad 3. Challenging neoliberal population control 4. “As it turns out, high-functioning s...
“A letter to the village” by Sharon Dodua Otoo 15 Aug 2013 | 03:24 pm
“Dear Elders, You may already know that I am legally required to send my sons to school because we live in Germany and home education is not permitted here. In this country, all children are taught a...
Focusing on the poetics of the belly 13 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, publisher of Cassava Republic Press talks about book publishing in Nigeria.
*African Development in the 21st Century* 12 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
A sizable chunk from a lengthy piece by the ever insightful Keith Hart: Every person of African descent, whatever their actual history and experience – they could be Barack Obama, for example — suffe...
Links I Find Interesting 11 Jul 2013 | 06:15 pm
1. George Bush, Nicholas Kristof and the Hunger Games 2. On the rich symbolism and ribald comic vitality of Pedro Almodovar’s I’m So Excited 3. Transnational Gender Vertigo (deserves a post all to i...
Links I find interesting 28 Jun 2013 | 07:23 pm
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 c...
*Debunking Myths About Highly-Skilled Immigration and the Global Race for Talent* 26 Jun 2013 | 01:27 pm
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?...
Links I find interesting 20 Jun 2013 | 02:58 pm
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....
The Pace of Modern Life. Or we’ve-been-complaining-about-the-same-things-for-a-very-long-time 19 Jun 2013 | 05:31 pm
Here. H/T Felix Girke on FB.
The Pace of Modern Life. Or we’ve-been-complaining-about-the-same-things-for-a-very-long-time 19 Jun 2013 | 05:31 pm
Here. H/T Felix Girke on FB.
