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….
Read MoreOops, 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…
Read MoreKigali 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…
Read MoreWhat 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…
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Kigali on Edge After Grenade Attack
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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreAnybody know where I can get some more of this?
Someone just shared with me this link “Ururabo,” an old Kinyarwanda song, by a band known as Rossisendi & His Group. The link has…
Read MoreWho should decide how aid is used?
Tom over at aviewfromthecave and I have been having a bit of blog banter over the last 24 hours, sparked by a Washington Post…
Read MoreThe alleged power of one
Tom over at aviewfromthecave offers a critique of a recent Washington Post article about a couple, the Hughses, who went on safari in Tanzania and…
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