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Kwasi Wiredu in Dialogue with Kai Kresse... African philosophy galore... Wiredu expounds on his customary themes: tradition and modernity, cultural universals and particulars... revisit for social living project

The Financial Times on Ghana's Black Gold with pumping of offshore crude oil due to begin in 18 months or so... strictly by the numbers survey with obligatory handwringing about prospects for resource curse and/or counting chickens before they are hatched

On Mugabe's mess and Zimbabwe's plight and shame

Strictly by the numbers... growing at 16 percent annually, now the largest oil producer, high inequality, large foreign investment (China, US) but skewed towards oil and energy.. very little trickle down to assuage civil war wounds. very young population

Facing the man who cut off your arm, drowned your child and sent your wife off to be raped and/or killed. Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Liberia, one village at a time

on immigrants from French-speaking African countries, who live in Montreal but come to cut brush in northern Quebec's boreal forest in the summer.

"But Rice's visit here also underscored the limits of U.S. influence at the world body..." who's picking up the slack, then? Too bad the story doesn't answer it's own implied question.

In many developing countries, poor people are willing to pay to save. Roving deposit collectors in many African countries, for example, charge a fee—typically 6 percent of the average monthly balance—to relieve clients of extra cash. Susu

After reading Esther Garvi's blog about life in Niger, a nice intro to her foundation's approach to deal with desertification in the Sahel. Research on drought tolerant edible perennial plants, eduction of farmers, seeding etc. Striking results it seems

Muddled essay on the recent progress, economic and otherwise, in Africa but perhaps it is fitting: development is a messy business. By the numbers: Kenya, Botswana, improved telecom, Chinese attention, democracy in parts, fewer civil wars etc

Despite the region's clear urbanization trend, national governments and development groups continue to direct their energies toward rural economic development.

On efforts to put Liberia's agricultural economy back after almost 2 decades of civil war.

on the early history of Nima and its formation "he obtained permission to settle here, and to build a village for the accommodation of strangers like himself in 1931" A place for outsiders on the fringe of urbanity. a resting place for exiled souls

"What we have here is a cold peace"... Proof that economics aren't everything, the high prices for cocoa are the lure but the damage of a decade of mistrust and demagoguery is hard to overcome. A neighbour's house is still on fire

Adobe mud block doesn't exist in cities in Ghana, which meant I had to create it," says Osae-Addo. Furthermore, he didn't want air-conditioning in a climate where the average temperature can approach 90 degrees, with humidity exceeding 90 percent (a

His novels on the city in Africa were more widely read than Achebe. Who will chronicle that very modern story of Africa in his stead?

Si la peur recule au fur et à mesure que le mécontentement grandit, la prudence reste la règle. On se méfie toujours du voisin et des innombrables indicateurs. Le pays etouffe