I’m sad to see that Shashank Bengali, the Nairobi-based McClatchy correspondent, will be leaving Africa to move back to the US. Shashank’s reporting has been unlike other journalists with a stint on the continent; he is the one major-paper reporter whose work has never made me roll my eyes back and wonder whether they ever [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
nairobi-based journalist will return to DC
Posted in Africa, media, tagged Africa, blog, journalism, journalist, mcclatchy, reporting, shashank bengali on 27 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
another american goes to africa to adopt
Posted in Africa, globalization, tagged adoption, Africa, film, globalization, media, pauly shore, pauly_shore on 24 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m intrigued to watch the movie based on this trailer:
I’m convinced it’s a satire on white folks going to Africa to adopt babies. It’s nice to see Pauly Shore grown up and funny enough to do satire, or just humor that isn’t individually self-deprecating.
seeing africa differently
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, brand africa, brandafrica, google, perception, see africa differently, this is my africa, twitter on 22 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
A series of tweets on how to brand Africa led me to a very funny compilation of “commercials” done by a group of Brits, at a site entitled See Africa Differently. It’s a good-humored look at what some of us who do work in Africa complain about: an unfortunately consistent Western perspective about Africa as some [...]
this week’s HIV/AIDS links
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, AIDS, Brazil, HIV, hiv/aids, male circumcision, south africa, uganda on 17 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners over 24 months in a randomized controlled trial in Rakai, Uganda.
AIDS prevention message for the “real” African man.
Elizabeth Pisani reviews The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil for The Lancet.
What AIDS is like in South Africa, from the eyes of a [...]
the luxury of western medical care
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, canada, health, health-care, mcmaster university, medical student, mulago, rabies, simon oczkowski, uganda, western medicine on 15 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
After taking a toddler to one of the world’s poorest countries with one of the world’s highest patient-to-doctor ratios, I have a great appreciation for access to Western medical care. Simon Oczkowski, a recent graduate of the medical school at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada), wrote about two experiences with rabies during a trip to [...]
a couple of musings on international media
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, botswana, chinese, democracy, dictatorship, elections, indonesia, media, newspaper on 13 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
International media coverage has always remained a mystery to me: who decides what gets in print? Marc Herman writes about the quiet coverage of the recent Indonesian election. It’s a thoughtful post about a mostly Muslim nation currently experiencing stable democracy despite a not-so-distant violent and dictatorial past and a contemporaneous good run of bad luck:
At [...]
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