Children of Gorongosa

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Tit for Tat

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What happens when journalists attack? To find out, look no further than the pages of this month’s “Columbia Journalism Review.” The story begins with “One Man’s Rwanda,” Tristan McConnell’s feature on American journalist Philip Gourevitch, most famous for his best-selling book on the Rwandan genocide, “We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed […]

Truth Will Out

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While we were on vacation this past summer, something big happened. Many of you no doubt have heard by now of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ mapping report, which, among other things, details the human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997. The […]

Wax Poetics “Africa Issue” and Other Links

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* I just got the Wax Poetics Africa Issue in the mail.  Though the issue may give the impression that good music stopped being produced in Africa since the 1970s–in part it reads like a tribute issue with articles about Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, the Rail Band, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, Hugh Masekela, Lemi Ghariokwu, […]

PHOTOGRAPHY / HOWARD FRENCH

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French, now associate professor of journalism at Columbia University was for many years West Africa correspondent for The New York Times. He wrote an excellent book “A Continent for the Taking” based on his time there and is also a very good photographer. You can see his photography here.

WEEKEND LINKS: STEPHEN AMOS etc

Stephen K Amos’ brilliant mock-Nigerian routine is a good way to introduce a bunch of links–new, as well as ones that have piled up in my bookmarks folder:

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