Posts Tagged ‘Rwanda’
Does the Holocaust teach us anything about modern-day genocide? (Oh, and happy new year)
Things are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in Foreign Policy last month, on whether the Holocaust is the right tool for teaching us about genocide (or helping us identify early warning signs, etc.). The whole piece is [...]
Thanks to the girls at St. Mary's in Portland, Ore.
I had a great time this afternoon with the ladies of the comparative religion class at St. Mary’s Academy in leafy downtown Portland. Thanks, ladies, for sharing your knowledge of ‘primal religions’ with me, and letting me share a little bit from my work in Africa with you.
How do you get from a dusty refugee camp to Atlanta, anyway?
This year, the Christian Science Monitor has been following Bill Clinton Hadam and his family, as LBC–”Little Bill Clinton,” as the series and the boy it’s named after are affectionately known–goes through third grade in an Atlanta charter school where all the students are refugees like him. The series started with the family’s memory [...]
On paying money to look at poor people
In a moment of serendipity, I published an article this week at the Christian Science Monitor at exactly the same time its topic, poverty tourism, became a hot debate on Bill Easterly’s blog and at Huffington Post.
The controversy started when Magatte Wade, a Senegalese entrepreneur, penned a long piece objecting to a tour that’s run [...]
Congo 101, or "Can't you clap?"
This has got to be the best quote yet to run in anyone’s Congo stories. From Stephanie McCrummen, who has been doing stellar work from this region for the Washington Post for years; she visited a town where a Congolese politician was announcing the Rwandan troops’ arrival to help Congolese soldiers. To a [...]
Hold down the ESC key, Mr. Negroponte. Then it will all go away…
Here’s an interesting elegy to the One Laptop Per Child project, the much-lauded initiative of Nicholas Negroponte to bring computers to the world’s poor. Turns out it went bust:
Last week OLPC laid off half of its staff. Sales of its XO Laptop to developing nations are far, far below initial projections in the millions; [...]
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