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Thursday, January 5, 2017
Weekly Reading: Palestinian Christians, A Wonderful Life, Blues and Drinking Your Own Pee
Evangelicals Siding with Israel Hurt Palestinian Christians
This Post article should at least give my fellow believers some pause for thought. Personally, I've always been a little hesitant to support Israel in an unqualified manner.
How Jimmy Stewart Became George Bailey
(You may have to google the title to get the WSJ article to load) Some great background on Jimmy Stewart's considerable WWII combat experience and his return to Hollywood post V-day.
Super Cool Blue Angels 360 degree video
This is pretty amazing--it will definitely brighten your day for a few minutes!
Recycling Sewage Water? Namibia's Been Doing It For 50 Years
Recycling your own urine--it's not just for SERE school. One of the most interesting aspects of this article was the background on the role apartheid played in this technology and its hangover effects today in Namibia.
Beautiful video about a Dad with an autistic son
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Lazy Reporting, New Insight on Somalia, and Ethiopia's Nationhood Reconsidered
What I'm Reading Today:
The west's lazy reporting of Africa by Afua Hirsch
EXCERPT: There is a laziness applied to media coverage of Africa that is seldom seen elsewhere. Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina brilliantly captured this in his Granta essay "How to Write About Africa". "You must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the west," he wrote. "Her children have flies on their eyelids and pot bellies, and her breasts are flat and empty. She must look utterly helpless. She can have no past, no history; such diversions ruin the dramatic moment. Moans are good."
There are still too many journalists unwittingly following his advice.
Found: A Somalia we do not know -
EXCERPT: "Getting Somalia Wrong" is not just an opposing view to the usual horror stories we hear about Somalia -- Harper covers the good, the bad and the ugly. What makes this book different and important is that the author does not see her subject as one-dimensional. It is a book that attempts, successfully, in my view, to explain a country by getting to know the people who live in it.
The next time you hear about Somali shops being burnt in Khayelitsha or on the East Rand and you wonder why they bother staying, Harper’s book will help you to understand where those nameless and faceless people come from and why they left their homeland in the first place.
Ethiopia’s nationhood reconsidered
EXCERPT: Just as the historic realities of long-established nations like Ethiopia pose a challenge to conventional ideas about modern nationhood, so the contemporary Ethiopian experience reinforces pressures to rethink conventional notions of national boundaries. The nation whose conquest and dispersal across the world two millennia ago gave rise to the term diaspora seemed anomalous up to the past century, when a home territory with well-defined and secure boundaries seemed the only way to construe nationhood. The Jewish case now seems normative for many countries, whose boundaries, like that of ancient Israel, have expanded to involve a level of co-determination that previously could not have been imagined. The globalizing tendencies favored by electronic media and easy transportation will continue not only to promote subnational and supranational communities, but will also play a major role in strengthening the age-old nation of Ethiopia, reconfigured now in three parts: bet-agar (Homeland); wutch-agar (Diaspora); and sayberagar (Cyberspace).
LINKS:
http://www.donlevine.com/uploads/1/1/3/8/11384462/ethiopias-nationhood-reconsidered.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/15/west-lazy-reporting-africa?CMP=twt_gu
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-04-05-found-a-somalia-we-do-not-know#disqus_thread
The west's lazy reporting of Africa by Afua Hirsch
EXCERPT: There is a laziness applied to media coverage of Africa that is seldom seen elsewhere. Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina brilliantly captured this in his Granta essay "How to Write About Africa". "You must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the west," he wrote. "Her children have flies on their eyelids and pot bellies, and her breasts are flat and empty. She must look utterly helpless. She can have no past, no history; such diversions ruin the dramatic moment. Moans are good."
There are still too many journalists unwittingly following his advice.
Found: A Somalia we do not know -
EXCERPT: "Getting Somalia Wrong" is not just an opposing view to the usual horror stories we hear about Somalia -- Harper covers the good, the bad and the ugly. What makes this book different and important is that the author does not see her subject as one-dimensional. It is a book that attempts, successfully, in my view, to explain a country by getting to know the people who live in it.
The next time you hear about Somali shops being burnt in Khayelitsha or on the East Rand and you wonder why they bother staying, Harper’s book will help you to understand where those nameless and faceless people come from and why they left their homeland in the first place.
Ethiopia’s nationhood reconsidered
EXCERPT: Just as the historic realities of long-established nations like Ethiopia pose a challenge to conventional ideas about modern nationhood, so the contemporary Ethiopian experience reinforces pressures to rethink conventional notions of national boundaries. The nation whose conquest and dispersal across the world two millennia ago gave rise to the term diaspora seemed anomalous up to the past century, when a home territory with well-defined and secure boundaries seemed the only way to construe nationhood. The Jewish case now seems normative for many countries, whose boundaries, like that of ancient Israel, have expanded to involve a level of co-determination that previously could not have been imagined. The globalizing tendencies favored by electronic media and easy transportation will continue not only to promote subnational and supranational communities, but will also play a major role in strengthening the age-old nation of Ethiopia, reconfigured now in three parts: bet-agar (Homeland); wutch-agar (Diaspora); and sayberagar (Cyberspace).
LINKS:
http://www.donlevine.com/uploads/1/1/3/8/11384462/ethiopias-nationhood-reconsidered.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/15/west-lazy-reporting-africa?CMP=twt_gu
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-04-05-found-a-somalia-we-do-not-know#disqus_thread
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
International Relations through a 20mm lens
As a photography enthusiast, I found Wide Aperture's latest blog post to be a phenomenal one (Wide Aperture is a photography subset of the online news magazine Current Intelligence). The article doesn't directly pertain to Africa but it does speak to the power of the captured image to offer commentary and insight into a country and its issues. Photographs can offer texture and context to circumstances that are difficult to address with the written word. In the article the editors address this idea of photographic texture and context in Hannes Opelz's latest work, "The Dream of Occupation", a photo essay about the West Bank.
What are your favorites blogs and websites and photography in Africa?
LINKS:
http://www.currentintelligence.net/wideaperture/2011/7/14/dreams-of-occupation.html
http://www.20mm.ch/the_dream_of_occupation/
http://www.currentintelligence.net/wideaperture
What are your favorites blogs and websites and photography in Africa?
LINKS:
http://www.currentintelligence.net/wideaperture/2011/7/14/dreams-of-occupation.html
http://www.20mm.ch/the_dream_of_occupation/
http://www.currentintelligence.net/wideaperture
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