“After disasters and death tolls, world moves on”
It sounds like me being glib, using my unending cynicism to make a point, but that’s a real, it-ran-in-papers-and-on-the-web headline from the Associated Press….
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The personal-life liabilities of pursuing a Pulitzer Prize
About a month ago, I realized that my apprehension about talking to men here was impeding my work. The feeling, I decided, was an…
Read MoreNewsflash: A war, hopefully, ends
The rebel group that’s been causing a ruckus in Burundi signed a peace deal with the government today. File this away in your head…
Read MoreThe Rwandan catwalk
The eye of the beholder, it turns out, isn’t the easiest of standards. The beholder can be so…complicated. I found myself in Butare last…
Read MoreAdvertising students, unite for Darfur: It needs a new image
I’m surprised to find this BBC Viewpoint by Alex de Waal, who’s been one of those obscure-academics-turned-heroes-by-college-kids because of his work on Darfur. He’s…
Read MoreThings you don’t want to overhear
I am too infrequently nursing a little burn I got hopping off a moto last week–it was my own fault, lacking as I do…
Read MoreO, cruel irony!
I lost my favorite item of clothing–despite my whiny lust for things that sparkle, it is just a blue t-shirt, now pretty well worn–somewhere…
Read MoreYes, I used to like Celine Dion. I’m sorry.
There’s a little place to stay in Butare that I just love. It’s just off the main road, and the first time I was…
Read MoreMaybe Kinyarwanda is actually the universal language
I was sitting in the bus station in Butare and four Asian men walked in. A tall guy in an Indian-style tunic went to…
Read MoreIn abstentia
Here’s a quick note from Butare, where in one Internet Explorer window, this French keyboard does, in fact, write in French…and in a new…
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