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Links I liked
Here’s the latest edition of my Africa Update newsletter. We’ve got Mali’s 35-year old foreign minister, the dodgeball association of South Sudan, accountability for Mozambican mayors over gay rights,...
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What I’m reading for November 2018
Here’s my latest link roundup, cross-posted from Africa Update. We’ve got evangelical real estate in Lagos, the Boy Scouts of Bangui, Kinshasa’s dodgy voting machines, Julius Nyerere’s translations of...
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Nanjala Nyabola on the political power of archives
Last week I attended the Nairobi launch of Nanjala Nyabola‘s new book Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics. It was one of the best public events I’ve attended since I moved to Kenya. I could have...
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Photographing nature and people in Congo-Brazzaville
The New York Times recently reviewed Congo Tales, a new book about people living in the Mbombo region near Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo. As the Times summarized it: A team...
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Africa Update for January 2019
Here’s my latest link round-up from Africa Update. We’ve got Angolan goat delivery apps, contraception compromises in Rwanda, a deep dive on the Congolese election, postdocs for African physicists,...
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Africa Update for March 2019
Here’s the latest edition of my Africa Update newsletter. We’ve got the professional mourners of the DRC, Somalia’s unique mobile money ecosystem, the Lagos art scene, Rwanda’s first female...
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Africa Update for April 2019
Here’s my latest edition of Africa Update. We’ve got the extremely loud churches of Accra, the CAR’s only mental health clinic, the 154 perks enjoyed by Kenyan civil servants, Zambia’s first school...
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Here’s what I’m looking forward to reading this month! Jürgen René Blum, Marcos Ferreiro-Rodriguez, and Vivek Srivastava. 2019. Paths between Peace and Public Service: A Comparative Analysis of Public...
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Africa Update for September 2019
Here’s the latest edition of my Africa Update newsletter. We’ve got the Nigerian space program, trans-African highways, online therapy in Kenya, why the Sahara is bad for infant mortality, and more. A...
View ArticleInteresting academic articles for November 2019
Here’s what I’ve been looking forward to reading lately. Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Jeremy Seekings, and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, eds. 2019. The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa....
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