Archive for the ‘West Africa’ Category
In Cote d’Ivoire, Ouattara says watch what happens next
Alassane Ouattara, who AllAfrica.com called “the internationally recognized president of Cote d’Ivoire,” which seems a good way of handling that linguistic problem, gave a talk via teleconference at CSIS on Friday. According to the AllAfrica writeup, he said: “We believe the end of the month is an important benchmark because salaries usually, especially to the [...]
What WordPress wonders about Cote d’Ivoire
Most of the time, the funny things on that list of “things people searched to get to my blog” isn’t all that different from the funny things that most blogs catalog on their back end, I would guess. But this little couplet, made of two separate search items, seems worth sharing:
Coda: Making myths about conflict zones
One more thing I want to pull up from the comments on my Cote d’Ivoire post, from Rebecca: On the streets here, especially during the day, it seems almost normal. Tense, but normal. The radar traffic cops are back to writing speeding tickets even. I can freely travel all over the city without problem, and [...]
Cote d’Ivoire and the linguistic roulette of mass atrocity
My use of the word genocide on Cote d’Ivoire has attracted some interest and a few hearty objections. Thankfully, I think there’s a better led and curated conversation about the country and a variety likely scenarios on other blogs (try here and here). The responses to my post and the thinking they inspired make me [...]
Why we should be worried about genocide in Cote d’Ivoire
Cote d’Ivoire is going through an ugly time, and today was an especially ugly day. The UN thinks the incumbent president is hiding evidence of a massacre; the incumbent president’s followers are threatening to overrun a hotel where their political opposition is based; and the UN’s special advisers on genocide prevention and the responsibility to [...]
From the other side of Africa, the world through new eyes
One of my favorite readers* sent me this blog post recently, by a young woman who upped to Mali for a month after graduating from school. On the blogs I circle, we talk a lot about the relative value to Noble Goals of generalists and specialists and good-intentionalists, about the risk of havoc that lurks [...]
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