What Google Should Do In Africa – Preface

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This is an introduction to a series of posts on what I think Google ought to be doing in Africa,  that is to say what I think they ought to be [...]

African Women and American Academics

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I find myself wondering if I am the only one dismayed by the “mudwrestling” going on among Dambisa Moyo, Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly… and others. In case you haven’t heard, Dambisa Moyo has written a provocative book on the merits of development assistance. [...]

Mobiles in Africa – We Need The Eggs

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At the end of the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen says,

this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken,’ and uh, the doctor says, ‘well why don’t you turn him in?’ And the guy says, ‘I [...]