Archive for the ‘DRC’ Category
Rwandans in Congo? “They’re all around us”
Here’s a terrific article by Michelle Faul of the Associated Press about the sort of thing that’s often rumored in quiet dinner conversation in the Great Rift Valley region. Well, we keep our voices down in my part of the valley, anyway. It’s got all my favorite elements — land, conflict, cows — in terrifying [...]
Boozing it up in the ‘third world’?: The mix tape
Update, after I got out from under my rock In one of the very active comments sections on the blogs that have taken this up, someone accused Nick Kristof of living under a rock. Accused is a strong word. ‘Asked if he did’ is better. I have been the cyber equivalent of living under a [...]
Things that are worth your time
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, [...]
Well, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.” Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and executive director, African Women’s Development Fund: “….She found a man standing over her daughter, in the process of raping her…She had a machete in her hand. So she did what she had [...]
African poverty is falling. (Seriously.) Maybe it’s the tourism? (Doubt it.)
The ridiculously digitally prolific Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points to a new paper from an MIT-Columbia team of authors who’ve found that across the board, poverty is falling in Africa. Not just in certain kinds of countries, with certain advantageous histories or certain huge amounts of minerals…everywhere. (In a sentence that has to have [...]
One article you SHOULD read on Congo
If you live in America, go to your nearest newsstand and buy the March issue of Mother Jones. You’ll probably like most of what’s in the “special report on human rights,” but Adam Hochschild’s article on the DRC — “Blood and Treasure: Why one of the world’s richest countries is also one of the poorest” [...]
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