Naomi Blood Diamond Campbell?
I’m watching the live feed of the Taylor trial happening in The Hague. I’m sitting at my hotel in Freetown, with a few Sierra…
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On wads of crisp, clean West African cash
Today I withdrew cash at a bank in Freetown. A dollar here is worth almost 4,000 leones, and the largest bill they print is…
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 MoreThanks to the girls at St. Mary's in Portland, Ore.
I had a great time this afternoon with the ladies of the comparative religion class at St. Mary’s Academy in leafy downtown Portland. Thanks,…
Read MoreTop 10 Sad Things the Palin-Letterman Controversy Says about America
I had a nice little list going, centered on the most outrageous element of all: a form letter for anti-Letterman protestors–egged on, in spirit…
Read MoreSo you wanna help Africa? Here's how. (Hint: It only takes $10. But you gotta be fast.)
Some of you might remember my series on grassroots reconciliation in Sierra Leone. Fambul Tok is a local program in every sense–started by a…
Read More“It is finished in my heart,” or, how to forgive the man who cut off your arm
I don’t have any idea. But here’s what Temba Kekura told me (this is the last part of my Sierra Leone series; if you…
Read MoreReally, I went to Sierra Leone; or, A look at reconciliation, village by village
Way back in March, the Christian Science Monitor sent me to Sierra Leone to report a series on ‘grassroots reconciliation,’ for lack of a…
Read MoreApologies–mine, and otherwise
Oh, so many apologies. * First, to my few but devoted commenters–commentors? how is it spelled? this new internet age!–whose wonderful thoughts I’ve let…
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