A chorus of truth-telling: On hegemony, Africa and the news
Forget h/t. An out and out handshake to @sonjasugira for a link to The Revolution Will Not Come By PowerPoint, a very unsentimental essay…
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Kigali grenade attacks: Journalistic choices in three acts
Act I, in which I am not a good authority on anything that happened last night No confusion: I didn’t cover the grenade attacks….
Read MoreThe alleged power of one
Tom over at aviewfromthecave offers a critique of a recent Washington Post article about a couple, the Hughses, who went on safari in Tanzania and…
Read MoreWhy Enough will always get Congo “wrong” — and why we should maybe thank them for it
I’m going to go straight to it: Because advocacy is politics. Advocacy is aspirational; it is rhetorical; and it is manipulative. And none of…
Read MoreThe White Reporter’s Burden in Africa II: Journalists who get over it
In an effort to be productive in my criticism, here are nearly two dozen or so Western journalists I think do good work in…
Read MoreYes, Nick, there is a white reporter’s burden in Africa
But it’s not being white on the Dark Continent. It’s that there are so many other bad white reporters who came through before us….
Read MoreNew Work from the Great Lakes
Just a heads up on a few pieces, if you’ve missed them and care. I’ve got an article on the Harvard Humanitarian Institute’s fantastic…
Read MoreHow to bring peace to Africa
Okay, I have no idea. That’s a teaser, one designed especially for Twitter. Sometimes, it takes a bit of cyberwhoring to get a click…
Read MoreThings worth thinking about: Who are the “ungrievable”?
I found a lot of food for thought in Nathan Schneider’s interview of philospher Judith Butler, in this week’s issue of Guernica. Schneider talks…
Read MoreSome good work from Africa
A few weeks ago, two great journalists I follow were honored as Livingston Award finalists. The Livingston Award, given each year to a journalist…
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