The ruins of a mining economy
A short 'archeological project' excavating both 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
More than white saviorism, the privatizing and deregulating education in Liberia as government policy that enabled for this violence, should take the blame.
George Weah is on the brink of his biggest goal
After weeks of high-drama legal scrutiny over Liberia’s first round of voting…
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’
One of the most disturbing developments in the 2013-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was the decision, in late summer 2014, to
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.'
Takun J stirs the Liberian streets with calls for justice and accountability
Takun J, currently the most popular musician in Liberia, bounds on to the stage at his
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
Making sure we give credit where it’s due in the Ebola Outbreak
As a brutal year comes to an end in the West African countries that are fighting
Bob Geldof doesn’t need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already
Bob Geldof is going to put out another Band Aid single, another rehash of the grotesque
‘There is no Ebola here’: What Liberia teaches us about the failures of aid
Professor Thandika Mkandawire is a development economist with a sharp mind and an even sharper tongue
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