On Wednesday this week I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of hours chatting with Gilberto Gil. I am still pinching myself. When I was 17, I was an exchange student for a year in Brazil. It was there I was introduced to Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB) which translates to Popular Brazilian Music but [...] [...]
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By Steve Song, on May 28th, 2009   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. Her book, Dead Aid, challenges some of the accepted wisdom about [...] [...] By Steve Song, on January 21st, 2008 When I first encountered the Southern African word ubuntu a few years ago, it instantly resonated with me. A person is only a person through other people…. the suffering of one person diminishes all of us. Or as Archbishop Desmond Tutu puts it, “a solitary human being is a contradiction in terms”. A notion that [...] [...] |
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