Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

“Animals, on the other hand, must be treated as well rounded, complex characters”

Every once in a while I bump into a certain article (How to Write About Africa), and I recently got pinged with the url to yet another reincarnation of it… I’m taking this as a sign that I should finally blog about this topic…
Now I could get squished by the sheer weight of the entire [...]

District9 vs the ‘America under attack’ meme

I haven’t seen district 9, [update: saw it, loved it, a bit gappy in backstory but no matter]… but just the fact that it’s NOT set in america is going to be a breath of fresh air…

Off to the land of sun (and rain)

So we (carelessly/stupidly) picked the rainy season to go. Shut UP! Less said about that the better.
But it’s finally time… no more putting it off; tickets and passorts packed along with everything else and the kitchen sink (it’s incredible that a 2-week period requires a sink of the kitchen variety at all, but we’ve tried [...]

Africa’s piece of the internet pie

On most maps, Africa is either bright red, signalling “badness in overdrive”, or white, meaning “no data available”. So imagine my lack of surprise when I followed Mike Miner’s link to a page showing worldwide distribution of social media applications.
Is there really no data available? I got curious and started wondering about this. I know [...]