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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Muso Okwonga reflects on Godfrey Bloom’s racial outburst against aid to African countries: The first thing is that I think that Godfrey Bloom’s comments, for which he subsequently expressed regret, are spectacularly racist. To dismiss Africa,…
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Part 7 of 10 clips taken on Weds Aug 07th, when a fire broke out at the arrivals section of JKIA (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) Video of the fire engulfing Kenya’s main international airport shot by…
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The Newsroom recap: Africa plot was stupid and offensive
August 6, 2013 #AfriFAIL International Development WTF?Willa Paskin over at Slate attempts to take down the Newsroom’s Unintended Consequences episode as yet another generalization of the African continent by the White Savior Complex: In the episode, Maggie and her colleague Gary Cooper…
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This Little Sticker Works Like an Anti-Mosquito Force Field | Wired Design
August 6, 2013 Health technologyThis is where science and crowd-sourcing get together effectively to solve a global problem. Somehow I wasn’t surprised that field testing is going to be done in Uganda at the end of the year. Pricing this…
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Delegates agreed to charge $100 (Frw 60,000) per tourist intending to visit the three countries for up to 90 days in any of the three countries. It would be paid at the point of entry into…
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