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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What Kigali is like when there’s a grenade
Quiet. It’s always quiet, though. That’s the thing. About 25 minutes after reports started moving through SMS and Twitter of tonight’s grenade attack(s?) in the city center, everything was…normal. Unless you wanted to catch a bus from the center of town, of course. There, I hear, the road is sealed ...
A powerful voice on “slum tourism”
If you haven’t read this op-ed in today’s NYT yet, it is an absolute must read. You might not agree with him, but Kennedy Odede, from Kibera, makes writes powerfully and beautifully about what it’s like to be looked at on a slum tour.
On returning, or, “What does your language sound like?”
I had a conversation in Sierra Leone with someone who speaks an enviable number of languages. I grew up in West Virginia, where it’s not uncommon for high school French teachers not to have been to France, ever (one of mine had, and one, as I recall, hadn’t). People who ...
Jina Moore
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