Guest Post by Ryan Brown On a warm July morning in 1965, South African writer Nat Nakasa stood facing the window of a friend’s seventh floor apartment in Central Park West. In the distance he could likely just make out the outline of the Empire State Building, a sharp reminder of just how far he […]
It’s not just Evil Arab City States or Chinese firms that are buying up vast tracts of land in portions of Africa, set to produce specialised food crops exclusively for export. Now, the news is that “[s]ome prominent American universities and pension funds, among other wealthy foreign investors,” are also “allegedly purchasing huge tracts of […]
A rich Sudanese businessman living in London hires an American professor to come up with an index to rank African governments for things like corruption, vaccine coverage, crime rates and armed conflict. They do it for two years. This would cement both their reputations. People love rankings and information that is organized; that comes ordered. […]
