The ruins of a mining economy
The physical and psychic ruins of colonial mining practice in a small town in Liberia.
Liberia
What’s new? Making money off poor school children again
The latest trick is to transfer tax-payer funded aid aimed at Africa and the Middle East into the pockets of corporations and individuals.
The tyranny of good intentions
Scandals like the one at More Than Me—the US charity that failed to protect school girls in its care from rape by staff—are common in even the most elite aid organizations.
A terrible failure to protect school girls in Liberia
The privatizing and deregulating education in Liberia as much as white saviorism should take the blame for the sexual violence under an NGO's watch.
George Weah’s biggest goal
Weah is poised to become Liberia's next president. What will a Weah administration look like, and how will he govern?
What’s bad for America’s children deemed good for others: Riposte to Nick Kristoff
Writing in The New York Times about the growth of privately run for-profit schools in Liberia, the paper’s columnist Nicholas
Why is Liberia’s Government rushing to sell its public schools to U.S. for-profits?
When Liberia’s Minister of Education, George Werner, announced last spring that he was inviting foreign education
African military partnerships in the age of the ‘enemy disease’
Military-to-military relationships have become the dominant mode of U.S. engagement with the African continent, overwhelming cast as institutional partnerships.
History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation
A website archive argues that Liberia needs a history that will be called 'history after the settlers.'
Setting Liberia’s political pot onto a full boil
Takun J stirs the Liberian streets with calls for justice and accountability.
Vamba Sherif’s ‘Bound to Secrecy’ is masterful storytelling
In 2012, The Economist Magazine’s style blog, Prospero, featured an essay titled “War and Peace in
Do our passports continue to be punished for being African?
Late last week, I was informed that I would not be able to travel to Dubai
Open letter to 60 Minutes regarding its reporting on Africa
Dear Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of CBS 60 Minutes, We, the undersigned, are writing to express our
The shoulders that carried Ebola’s weight
Making sure we give credit where it’s due to those on the frontline during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
They do know it’s Christmas
Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.
What Liberia Teaches About the Failures of Aid
While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.
Ebola: Where we are; where we should be
Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?
Ebola in Perspective: The role of popular music in crisis situations in West Africa
Cultural Anthropology published a series of articles last week called “Ebola in Perspective,” curated by two experts on
Africa is a Radio: Episode #6
Africa is a Radio episode 6 opens up with a transnational blend, combining remixes of Dotorado
Get Well Soon, Ashoka
Today the American network NBC announced publicly that friend (and contributor) of Africa is a Country, Ashoka Mukpo, is