Archive for the ‘Rwanda’ Category
Er, well, one more (funny) thing.
I’m waiting at the airport, where there’s a fair amount of funny English. Here’s a few little gems to keep you smiling:
In the duty free, all kinds of cigarettes have all kinds of warnings on them. Marlboro is descriptive but somehow non-committal: Smoking Kills. Dunhills are rather considerate: Smoking seriously harms you and others around [...]
Offsetting my digital footprint
You can’t get on a plane or buy something significant any more without someone asking you to offset your carbon footprint. Well, that’s probably not entirely true; I imagine that from Kigali, where that’s not really an issue, but I read about this offsetting a lot.
I would like to offset my digital footprint. [...]
On normal — and whether it can mean turning that radio down?
I’ve been writing a lot about normalcy lately, it turns out. Somehow it emerged as a theme in my peacebuilding work, in particular in this post about Sierra Leone’s progress since its own terrible war. And one thing I keep stressing to friends and family is how normal Kigali was the night of the grenade [...]
Kigali grenade attacks: Journalistic choices in three acts
Act I, in which I am not a good authority on anything that happened last night
No confusion: I didn’t cover the grenade attacks. Last night, I posted links to the work of a bunch of journalists who did — Hez Holland and David Kezio-Musoke/Reuters; Josh Kron/CNN International (last night, though oft with the NYT); Max [...]
Oops, sorry for the link damage
If you happen to find the site, but you came here via 404 not found or whatever, sorry for the disappeared post. I was trying to do an edit/update, too fast, and I trashed the post instead of updating. Which would have been fine, except the teeny tiny print in the back end [...]
Kigali Grenades: News Redux
If you do a Google News search for ‘kigali grenades,’ you’ll get nearly 1500 items right now. That includes a lot of bullshit, so here are the high points, which is to say, most of the real news stories. I suspect it’s most because I found them all on the first page of the Google [...]
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