mbalimbali

• Blood and land: Erodo’s story. From the moment he was born, Erodo, a Kenyan boy born to a tribe of cattle nomads in 1992, has had his life documented by filmmaker Bruno Sorrentino.
• The 150 Things the World’s Smartest People Are Afraid Of
• HIV+ women bemoan exclusion from subsidy: HIV-positive women in Malawi are being excluded from the government’s fertilizer subsidy program for smallholder farmers
• To (All) the White Girls Who Didn’t Get Into The College Of Their Dreams: Kendra James writes of non-white girls, “We don’t get to make ourselves feel better by engaging in a smear campaign against the fictional Cherokee girl that took our Ivy League slot.”
• Academia’s Indentured Servants
• Researching While Black: Why Conflict Research Needs More African Americans (Maybe)
• The Kwani? Manuscript Prize Longlist has been announced; 30 unpublished novels have been selected from 280 submissions from 19 African countries.
• Traditional law denies rights: South Africa’s Constitutional Court rules on the role of traditional authorities and customary law (HT Jill Kelly)