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Nigeria is not half bad!
I’m sorely embarrassed to say that I had no idea just how normal of a place Nigeria would be for me. I can’t remember how many people bid me farewell on this trip with the words, “be extra safe,”...
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Lagos, the nextdoor neighbor you haven’t met
Shopping malls. Landrovers. Imported wine. Gucci-wearing clubbers. Four-hundred-dollar-a-night hotels. This is Lagos. Four-hour traffic jams. Guys selling clocks and toilet seats on expressways....
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Lagos snapshots
The Lagosian entrepreneurial spirit. One of the nice things about writing on a blog is that there doesn’t have to be any false coherency to your observations. For example, I don’t have to pretend that...
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Music Break: Asa
The self-titled debut album of Nigerian singer Asa (pronounced ASH-ah) came out in 2007, but her hit record “Fire on the Mountain”‘s mere 2,800 views on YouTube tells me that, like me until a month...
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7 songs that rocked Kenya and Tanzania last year
I was sharing links to music that was popular in East Africa last year with my brother (find his alter ego here), and he asked me to put them in a list for him. That’s a good idea for my blog, I said....
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On Planet Money’s “just give the oil money away” report
Photo by Jonathan Wheeler. Used with a Creative Commons license. My favorite podcast, Planet Money, had a great report last week on a novel idea for avoiding the resource curse: just give the revenues...
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Nigeria is not half bad!
I’m sorely embarrassed to say that I had no idea just how normal of a place Nigeria would be for me. I can’t remember how many people bid me farewell on this trip with the words, “be extra safe,”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lagos, the nextdoor neighbor you haven’t met
Shopping malls. Landrovers. Imported wine. Gucci-wearing clubbers. Four-hundred-dollar-a-night hotels. This is Lagos. Four-hour traffic jams. Guys selling clocks and toilet seats on expressways....
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Lagos snapshots
The Lagosian entrepreneurial spirit. One of the nice things about writing on a blog is that there doesn’t have to be any false coherency to your observations. For example, I don’t have to pretend that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Break: Asa
The self-titled debut album of Nigerian singer Asa (pronounced ASH-ah) came out in 2007, but her hit record “Fire on the Mountain”‘s mere 2,800 views on YouTube tells me that, like me until a month...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7 songs that rocked Kenya and Tanzania last year
I was sharing links to music that was popular in East Africa last year with my brother (find his alter ego here), and he asked me to put them in a list for him. That’s a good idea for my blog, I said....
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Planet Money’s “just give the oil money away” report
Photo by Jonathan Wheeler. Used with a Creative Commons license. My favorite podcast, Planet Money, had a great report last week on a novel idea for avoiding the resource curse: just give the revenues...
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