- Adam Hocschild’s article from Congo, about mining, which I blogged about earlier, is online. Read it. Amazing.
- “Africa to Appalachia,” Jayme Stone’s collaboration with kora player Mansa Sissoko. I’ve been listening to it on and off since it came out, but in the past few weeks, I’ve been really listening to it. It’s incredible. (So, too, is the fiddler on the album, Casey Driessen.) If you like African music, or bluegrass, you should give it a listen. If you like both, you should make out with me. Barring that, you should march out and buy the thing right now. Trust me.
- Tom Bissell’s meditation, from Israel, on Judas. (Sorry, paywall!)
- Dan Grossman’s reporting on climate change from South America, with special focus on indigenous communities.
- This now-ancient episode of the West Wing, in which the president of a made-up African country negotiates with Big Pharma for reduced-priced AIDS drugs. Why watch it now? Because nothing makes it feel as ancient Obama’s decision to pull back on PEPFAR funding, which means no new ARV patients. (File under, “Weeks I’m Glad I Don’t Work for USAID.”)
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I’m loving the Appalachia to Africa ecard – what language is he singing?
I’m cruising through blogs outside my apartment where my kids are playing with the neighbor girls from Eritrea and Burundi, and now they’re all dancing – beautiful.