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Like anywhere else in the world, there is a season to everything in Burkina Faso: rites of passage, camel and horse racing, literature and death.
#1: From Stockholm, Sweden: Clivia's Cuisine and her marvelous Swiss chard dolmadas with rice and mushrooms! A gem of a recipe, and it looks delicious… Last week I visited Rosendals...
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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Bien Au Bout… shares the strange story of children who fled their schools en masse fearing they might be eaten [Fr] by a white man seen wandering in the forests outside their villages. Local rumor had it that Patrice Faye, a French naturalist and collector of endangered snakes with 30 years' experience in Burundi, was a cannibal.
African journalists working in France are calling on the two remaining French presidential candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal, to begin a new chapter in Franco-African relations (Fr), according to the blog of the Alliance for Democratic Progress. “We have to reconsider everything, make a fresh start, a sort of “big bang,” so that France stops treating us like children. Africa must be a partner.” (Fr)
Expat blogger BeneBurundi is learning about local culture (Fr): “Communicating with people from Burundi is all about subtlety and interpretation; for example if you're proposed to and you decline with a ‘no', it is highly possible that what will be heard will be ‘yes, maybe one day if you insist'. Also, in answer to ‘is everything okay?' a ‘yes-yes' would mean there's a problem. “
Agathon Rwasa remembers the victims of the Titanic Express massacre in Burundi.
“But to the Burundians I know, the idea that “peace and reconciliation” could be achieved while killers remain in power is a cruel joke. The difficult, messy truth is that democracy alone is not enough. Only by ensuring that Burundi's war criminals are prosecuted under international law, can we hope to see a permanent end to the violence,” writes Desire-Joseph, whose sister was killed in Burundi six years ago.
White African posts a chart showing IP per capita in the world, “African countries represent the bottom of the chart. Actually, 8 of the bottom 10 are African countries (Madacascar, Guinea-Bissau, Central African Republic, Burundi, Malawi, Ethiopia, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo). That’s not a good thing, but not altogether that surprising either.”
Isn't it at all troubling that large outside countries would come in to exploit human and natural resources? But...
Kudos to India for the approach of collaboration to help another country reach self-sufficiency. While this post speaks of needing...
I am an Ethiopian who hate the undemocratic nature of successive Ethiopian governments. Meles is raising the issue of Nile...
War--Water war has already broken out between Ethiopia and Egypt.The Nile River currently stands as a platform for verbal war...
Egyptian always thinks they are infinitely smarter than a black men and that assumption shaped their foreign policy towards Ethiopia...
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Nyamko Sabuni is still a member of the Swedish Government. In 2010, however, she was reappointed as Deputy Minister of...