Events: DRC, elections, and literary resistance (NYC)
Three events from the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University (which continues to give awfully short notice for awfully awesome events, alas). Today!…
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The Myth of the Maverick
New York — It’s that time again: stump speeches and town-hall meetings, policy debates, and primaries about to kick off.
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Leadership: A constructive rebel bucks hierarchy
New York — The highlights reel of Dennis Jett’s foreign-service career would screen like an action film – saving journalists from warlords, calling out…
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Leadership: For this non-profit organization, leaving was leading
New York — Successful mavericks can have more in common than vision: Often, they’re obsessed. Their drive keeps them focused and convinces others to…
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How to Love Languages You Don’t Even Know
For many people foreign languages are confounding to those who don’t know them. But Jina Moore finds beauty in words she doesn’t know –…
Read MoreViolence erupts on eve of #Liberia elections (breaking w/ field reporting & aggregation)
Here’s what we seem to know at around 10:45 eastern time this morning: Al Jazeera (AJE) is reporting three people dead, based on their correspondent’s…
Read MoreGoodbye to a great Great Lakes emissary
The Associated Press reported last night that former US Congressman and, later, Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe died on Tuesday. Congressman Wolpe had…
Read MoreWant a doctor to deliver your baby? In Uganda, you have to sue for that
Calling African journalists: Apply to report reproductive health with the Pulitzer Center!
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is putting its fantastic team behind a great new project, supporting four African journalists to cover reproductive health…
Read MoreCool projects by cool people
I spent last week in San Diego, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, talking about women, media, power and peace….
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