Tag Archives: Africa

Bringing Sight to the Poor

Posted on January 13, 2009 by ChrisB

with do it yourself adjustible strength glasses.No optician needed.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, glasses, India, inventions | Leave a comment

The West as Nuclear Proliferator

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Lee

(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Technology | Tagged Africa, Asia, authoritarianism, chart, China, civic culture, communications, democracy, diagram, DPRK, eastern bloc, English, espionage, former soviet republics, government, individualism, infographic, lingua franca, military intelligence, networks, New York Times, North Korea, nucelar research, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, political dissent, prc, proliferation risk, rogue states, Russia, scientific community, Soviet Union, Technology, technology transfer, trade, translation services, Transportation, USSR, western democracy | Leave a comment

Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Lee

I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described “oilfield trash” who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Africa, commerical-adventurer, drinking, drunk, energy, FPSO, grandchildren, Gulf of Guniea, gunboats, incompetent, international watrers, Lagos, Nigeria, offshore exploration, oil, oil exploration, oil reserves, oilfield trash, piracy, pirates, quasi-war, West Africa | 2 Comments

The Last Jews of Zimbabwe

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Lee

David Saks reflects on a vanishing community. Down to 260 individuals by some estimates.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, community, David Saks, jews, Zimbabwe | Leave a comment

Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Lee

I’d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D’Souza, but I hadn’t seen the video of it until today. It’s worth a watch. The subject of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Africa, anticolonialism, Catholic, Christopher Hitchens, Dinesh D'Souza, Freedom Fest, God, Harare, hypocrisy, ideology, Maoism, Mugabe, mythology, nationalism, racism, religion, Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe, secularism, socialism, western, Zimbabwe | 2 Comments

Woops.

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Joshua Foust

Geography, people: Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd sent extra diplomatic and police officials to west Africa to help investigate the kidnapping in Somalia of a group of reporters, including an Australian photojournalist. “We have deployed additional staff … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Africa, Australia, geography, Somalia | 3 Comments

Thunder in the Place of the Winds

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Lee

photo: Isuru Senevi | site And so ends Mauritania’s brief experiment with constitutional democracy. The AFP has a source in the new ruling junta who says there will be new elections in two months. We shall see.

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Abdallahi, AFP, Africa, Alex Ely, capital, Cold War, communism, constitutional, coup, darfur, democracy, extermists, Islamic, Mauritania, military, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, power, State Department, support, Washington Post | 1 Comment

How Supermarkets Can End Poverty

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Lee

Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre) One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That’s because industrial countries tend … Continue reading →

Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Africa, agriculture, Ashok Gulati, Asia, chains, consumers, developing, Economics, fdi, food, food prices, foreign direct investment, household, Hugo Chavez, India, inequity, International Food Policy Research Institute, Latin America, liberalization, nepal, poverty, revolution, scale, spending, supermarket, Thomas Reardon, United States, vegetables, Wal-Mart, world | Leave a comment

Viral Wal-Mart

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Lee

Anti-Wal-Mart hysteria seems to have curiously abated somewhat since the corporation started giving more generously to the Democratic Party. Not an uncharacteristic phenomenon for the centralized extortion tactics –er, “grassroots activism” of such campaigns. But there are still some people … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics | Tagged 1962, activism, Africa, AIDS, animation, Democratic Party, extortion, grassroots, inection, rural, video, viral, visualization, Wal-Mart | 3 Comments

Investing at Home in Africa

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Lee

(photo: William Bedzrah) One of the traditional problems of economic development in sub-Saharan Africa is that internal African investment dollars tend to be spent outside the continent. Thus it’s interesting to see Nigerian investment in Ghana has now reached $580 … Continue reading →

Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged Africa, Chile, commerce, George Kumi, ghana, inflation, investment, monetary policy, Nigeria, profits, Russia, Switzerland, trade | Leave a comment

Ignoring Chad

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Joshua Foust

David Axe writes on one of the world’s biggest ignored crises—right next door to the much more hip, much more visible crisis in Darfur. The Central African Republic has been spiraling into conflict, forcing over 60,000 people into refugee camps… … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, Chad, darfur, human rights, refugee | Leave a comment

StatAttak

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Lee

Very cool t-shirts with inventive visualizations of statistics on African countries.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, apparel, statattak, Statistics, t-shirts, tees, visualizations | Leave a comment

Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Keith_Indy

A short portrait of President Bush from Sir Bob Geldof, on the Presidents recent trip around Africa. Really shows what we’ve been accomplishing in Africa the last several years. In 2003, only 50,000 Africans were on HIV antiretroviral drugs — … Continue reading →

Posted in Developmental economics, Domestic Politics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Keith's Page | Tagged Africa, africom, Geldof, President Bush | Leave a comment

Pompeii Against Allah?

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Lee

photo: Martin Dixon Here’s a grim laugh for your Friday morning. A Muslim propaganda video which preposterously seeks to explain the death and burial of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 1st century, as the result of the wrath of Allah … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, Herculaneum, islam, Muslim, Pompeii, propaganda, Saudi Arabia, sex, slavery, Vesuvius, video, volcno, youtube | 4 Comments

The Elephants Return

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Lee

photo: Vearl Brown Uganda’s elephants have made a marvelous comeback, after having been nearly wiped out for their ivory, as part of Idi Amin’s many efforts to systematically plunder his country into ruin. It’s estimated there were once 30,000 elephants … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 1979, Africa, conservation, elephants, Idi Amin, ivory, Tanzania, Uganda | Leave a comment

Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Lee

Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page | Tagged Africa, Alberta, Angola, Arctic, Beijing, Bonga, business, Cabinda, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chevron, cocoa, Cold War, Congo, Domestic Politics, Dutch disease, economy, energy, Environment, ethnic nationalism, Financial Times, FPSO, Gabon, Geneva, geostrategy, ghana, guerrilla warfare, Gulf of Guinea, Houston, IMF, interview, John Ghazvinian, Joseph Kia Mboungou, kidnapping, left, memo, mercantile, Middle East, neoconservative, Niger Delta, Nigeria, offshore, oil, oil sands, oilfield trash, peak oil, petroleum engineers, post-nationalism, prostitution, reinvestment, rentier, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, shale, Shell, subculture, Suez Canal, Transportation, Uganda, UK, United Nations, Washington, workers, World Bank, Zimbabwe | 9 Comments

Idi Amin’s Uganda

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Lee

Somewhat dated but excellent documentary on the psychopathic depravity of Amin’s rule. The moment of macabre high comedy, in which Amin declares he has unilaterally withdrawn his army from Tanzania in the name of neighborly brotherhood during the Ugandan – … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, documentary, film, Idi Amin, movie, Tanzania, Uganda, Ugandan-Tanzanian War, video, youtube | Leave a comment

African wages, high and sticky?

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Lance

Hat tip: Tyler. Chris Blattman has a conjecture, possibly high wages in Africa are holding back growth: One thing that has always struck me in the African countries I have worked is that the real wages (i.e. wages adjusted for … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Developmental economics, Economics, Lance's Page, social science | Tagged Africa, blog, China, Chris Blattman, government, India, NGO's, wages | Leave a comment

Nigerian Virgins Wanted

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Lee

(photo: enric/baldiri) Nigerian magazine editor Madam Adunni Adediran, is appalled by the decline of traditional moral conduct in her country. In particular she’s concerned about rampant promiscuity and abortions among young women. To combat the trends she’s helped organize a … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, social science, Society | Tagged Adunni Adediran, Africa, AIDS, college, cure, HIV, Lagos, Nigeria, promiscuity, prostitution, rituals, scholarships, sex, sex slavery, sexuality, virginity | 2 Comments

Notes on the Kenyan Crisis

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Lee

Kenyan Justice Minister Martha Karua has charged Barack Obama’s cousin, ODM leader Raila Odinga, with ethnic cleansing. Tourist bookings to Kenya have suffered 90 percent cancellations. Kenyan blogger Girl in the Meadow wonders why the election dispute is being settled … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged , Africa, crisis, elections, ethnic cleansing, Kenneth Marende, Kenya, ODM, parliamnt, Raila Odinga, tourism | Leave a comment

A New Nigerian Shakedown

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Jonathan Boeke) The latest 419 scams aren’t the only nuisances for American businesses emerging out of Nigeria this year. Using the vast archive of documents made public during the 1990s epidemic of class action lawsuits against tobacco companies, Nigeria … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Health Care, Lee's Page | Tagged Africa, cigarettes, Health Care, individual rights, judicial corruption, Law, lawsuits, Nigeria, smoking, tobacco | Leave a comment

Minister for Kleptocracy

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Lee

Japan runs the world’s second largest economy with 17 cabinet ministers. Ghana, one of the world’s poorest, currently has 70. Why? Ben Ofosu-Appiah examines the question and argues the need for the dramatic downsizing of African governments. Shakara then offers … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Africa, bureaucracy, ghana, government, japan, statism | Leave a comment

Rain for the Ruins

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Michael Deeble) With heavy rains flooding Southern Africa and displacing thousands, surely saving graces must be found in parched and dying Swaziland, a country long thirsting for a drop of rain. But somewhat typically, that oppressed country’s autocrat King … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, History, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged Africa, agriculture, biofuels, dictatorship, drought, economic development, economy, ethanol, foreign aid, George Ayittey, HIV, King, Media, monarchy, Mswati, rain, South Africa, Swaziland | 2 Comments

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