I thought more about what I wrote yesterday, and I realized that for many such a blanket assertion would require more convincing. It isn’t that I think aid can or necessarily should stop per se, but it should at least be cleansed of its colonial doublespeak.

I am not trying to equate aid to impoverished nations to the blatant criminality of Halliburton/Blackwateresque profiteering, but this heartening story from Malawi certainly revives some tough questions raised previously here (and throughout other insightful posts) by Jesse

I just learned of some sad news from Malawi. A fellow blogger and acquaintence, Mangaliso Jere, died on January 18th. He was 27. I first met Mangaliso in Lilongwe at a Braai (Barbeque) at Mike Mckay’s house (as well as Austin Madinga and Soyapi Mumba). It was a gathering for bloggers […]

I’ve never been to Disneyland and don’t have any real desire to go. Of course I could end up there with kiddies in tow and I’m fine with that. I just used it as a metaphor because lots of folks get off on Disneyland and South Luangwa National Park in Zambia is my […]

Oddly enough I never really had an opportunity to get on line in Capetown. The first hotel had it but I was too busy to bother going to the lobby where the wi-fi hotspot was and at the second hotel the wi-fi hotspot was temporarily out of order. So much for being […]