Er, sort of. Parade Magazine is circulated in local American newspapers and claims something like 40 gajillion readers. It’s seriously huge, and pretty mainstreamy,…
Read MoreProbably even my African readers have a good idea of how much populism is being stirred in American right now by just saying the…
Read MoreI really have to just start another journalism blog, so those of you who are here for Africa don’t have to wade through this….
Read MoreI’m not a fan of making lives easy on my readers. I think the kind of bs we usually encounter in what fills our…
Read MoreThis piece comes to me via Lara J. Nettelfield, a professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada. It’s the story of one man trying…
Read MoreI just wanted to draw attention to this blog, by a guy who’s spent his career covering Africa and, in my estimation, has some…
Read MoreEarlier this week, the New York Times published an editorial that sketches the violence in Congo this way: It has its roots in Rwanda;…
Read MoreHere’s a story from the NY Times about an elaborate blogosphere hoax the swept up the American media. There’s a guy who invented a…
Read MoreSome more of my Sierra Leone reporting has finally seen the light of day. Here’s a story about a woman who runs a local…
Read MoreWhat in the name of all things holy and profane is going on in that most precious of printed real estate, Maureen Dowd’s column…
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