I think this Guardian lede is unfortunate: Are celebrity advocates and blogging expats crowding out African voices? A new fellowship is finding that while the media might be ready, after being so long ignored, young leaders…
August 2013
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Dear Pastor Lively, sovereign interference has its consequences
August 28, 2013 International DevelopmentIn March of 2012, the Center for Constitution Rights filed a federal lawsuit against Scott Lively and his current organization, Abiding Truth Ministries. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a non-profit…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s internet.org: Making the internet available to every person on earth is a goal too large and too important for any one company, group, or government to solve alone. Internet.org’s partners have come together to…
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Mawuna Koutonin, writes about how Africa’s nouveau riche got their money at Silicon Africa. His wish list for an African leader is simple but comes across as what should be common sense leadership on the continent. In 10…
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An excellent example of African Agency in Eastern DRC
August 19, 2013 Diaspora at work International DevelopmentI’ve read so many African migrant stories that open very similar to this one. African migrant arrives in newly adopted country, penniless, but full of hopes and dreams for themselves and for the people back home.…
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I am really proud of this piece in Wired UK magazine about Uganda’s emerging tech scene, not because yours truly and the techies at Hive Colab are featured, but because some of the people that I…
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NYT visits “urban Kampala,” can’t resist bringing up Idi Amin
August 16, 2013 International DevelopmentNew York Times’ Baz Dreisinger visits Kampala and indulges in a bit of lazy journalism: It all made for a lovely evening, though hardly the one I’d expected in Kampala, Uganda. To many, after all, the…
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Dear Telegraph, I just happened across your Up close and personal: Dale Morris’s portraits of wildlife in southern Africa. I know this is being a little too sensitive but ever since Teddy Roosevelt and his colonial…
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Amanda Taub at Wronging Rights finds a rare gem in the development communications landscape littered with poverty porn mines: That’s not a westerner’s idea of what a remote, exoticized “African” would want to do. Rather, those…
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Edward Paice is director at Africa Research Institute, interviews Abdirashid Duale, chief executive of Dahabshiil, the largest money transfer business in the Horn of Africa: We also provide a service for the people who might not use…
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