How Obama looks to Rwanda
Here’s a video some folks I knew in Rwanda put together about Kigali’s reaction to Obama’s election: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVH9o-WxEcA]
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Change is everywhere…
Now that I’m writing about Africa from New York, I thought it time to change things up a little. Which is supposed to include…
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For Fufu in Freetown, This Diner’s the Place
You might not recognize Sadia Pratt in the early morning. She wears a long house dress and an apron, orange in places where palm…
Read MoreNews from Congo, not mine, and not good
Things are getting worse in Congo again. In a story I co-wrote a few months ago—and in Human Rights Watch reports that came out…
Read MoreA look at the American heartland, from a West Virginian who can’t explain it
I keep getting asked–this is a paraphrase–“Why is West Virginia still so damn racist?” Media reports on the racism in the part of the…
Read MoreFrom Rwanda’s female-dominated parliament to Alaska’s hockey mom…
It’s a long trip, perhaps. Here’s an interesting piece from Salon, not for its politics, but for its insightful consideration of the way the…
Read MoreSeriously, I have to change the title of this blog. Here’s something really cool about New York.
That was self-serving, because the “something” is an article I wrote that went up today, a profile of the founder of Overheard in New…
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What You Hear If You Make a Point of Eavesdropping in New York
On a scorching September afternoon, Morgan Friedman, semi-professional wanderer, must stop. We’ve been moseying through Brooklyn neighborhoods for nearly two hours, because I wanted…
Read MoreThis has nothing, but nothing, to do with Africa. But it does have to do with Bill Clinton
Whatever your politics, if you can still make an argument that this man is not a liability to the party he’s trying to help,…
Read MoreWomen in Rwanda are all the rage
I seem to always miss the proper news. In the parliamentary elections held earlier this week–only the second election in the country since the…
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