The news on AIDS in South Africa is not what you think
The “AIDS in Africa” story we know in the West is bleak: HIV is spreading across the continent, accosting and killing men and women…
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If the clothes make the man, the kitenge makes the woman
Here’s an absolutely fascinating look at wax prints — what we journalists like to describe as “colorful African fabrics.” I still haven’t come up…
Read MoreOn telling the muse, “Go bother someone else today”
My sister sent me a link to this TED talk, from last year, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat Pray Love wasn’t really my kind of…
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