Archive for April, 2007
Africa Does Not Need More Aid
In addition to providing raw materials, labor, and markets for finished products, Africa also cleanses the conscience of Africanist scholars, evangelists and missionaries, the rock and roll musicians who want to save Africa through orphan adoption, and philanthropists with Mother-Theresa complexes.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi writes a scathing criticism of Western aid and attitudes towards Africa. He [...]
The Evolution of Climate Change
Ever wonder how ideas proliferate, gather momentum, and then are taken as fact? Take climate change. Regardless of its factual basis, it was not mainstream even in the late 1990s. From whence did it come?
I did some research that presents insights into how climate change as an issue has evolved. But its even more revealing [...]
Easter Readings: A Francophone View on India
It is good to be able to read media in multiple languages. It tells me how other parts of the world - beyond the Economist - see the world. So this weekend, I was surprised - and pleased - to see India in some fairly unexpected quarters of French media.
