More pressure than dating
Last week I was at a party–or, rather, a graduation celebration for a typing course. That’s right. Huge stereo speakers, a DJ, brouchettes everywhere,…
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How to stand out in Rwanda even more than you already do when you’re white
There are lots of great images and interesting language in Chimanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, so I don’t know what it…
Read MoreFashion in Africa, where the Indians won the Series
Here’s an interesting piece by Canadian journalist Sarah Petrescu, whom I bumped into in Kigali while she was here. It was the strangest of…
Read MoreThe limits of the internet
Of the 45 recipes you get if you type “goat” into allrecipes.com not a single one of them is actually for goat meat, which…
Read MoreRwanda’s street kids or America’s homeless: Who’s poorer?
A friend recently spent a month in California. While there, he took a trip to Venice Beach, and from the sounds of it, everything…
Read MoreWho does laundry for the Leader of the Free World?
This was one among many questions Bob Geldof had for George Bush. Geldof — you know, the guy behind retro-human-rights-cool “Live Aid” and modern-day-human-rights-chic…
Read MoreSecret’s in the sauce
I’ve found out what makes the leafy greens Mathil cooks so incredible: coconut milk. Last night, we had something quite close to kale (maybe…
Read MoreYou know you’ve hit the next peg of development when…
There’s a rush hour. That’s right, Kigali has a full-fledged rush hour. It took ten minutes to get from the hilltop to the traffic…
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Today, on my way home, I saw a little goat family that had gotten loose from the hill, chewing on this and that along…
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Sparing you the suspense: Here’s what I eat and drink in Rwanda
My morning meal was so remarkably German (smoked sausage and cheese) that it struck me I should maybe put a little post up about…
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