Too much Times on her hands
What in the name of all things holy and profane is going on in that most precious of printed real estate, Maureen Dowd’s column space in the NYT?
There is nothing–no news peg (unless the Christie Brinkley thing is one, but I’m not American-pop-culture with-it enough, halfway around the world, to ...
A New York post
This has nothing to do with Africa, but my mom sent me a link to this illustrated story in the Times—it’s kind of like a picture book for adults, and it’s about kids; how cleverly clever–and I have to share. The illustrator, Christoph Niemann, writes about riding the subway ...
“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 yesterday’s post, you haven’t seen this yet):
Before the war, when his village and his family and his body were whole, Temba Kekura was ...
Really, 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 better term, after the war there.
It’s finally seen the light of day, in a three-parter which began yesterday. Here’s the setup:
John Caulker might know ...
Apologies–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 languish in the “awaiting approval” pipeline. Sorry about that; it’s been a bit crazy here, and I didn’t want to click in and out until ...A note on Zimbabwean notes
Saw this on the BBC headlined, “No paper for Zimbabwean money.”
It’s wrong, I know, but that’s kind of funny: The Germans supply the country with paper to print bank notes on, but because of the election, they’ve said, “No more.” So now, Zimbabwe can’t print any more money.
Which ...
Jina Moore
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