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Ibrahim Sheme posts a Kano State Censorship Board press briefing on the film industry which includes gems like: It is professionally a tradition and globally accepted; sensitivities are never compromi… more →
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Assorted Nigerian Stories
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Ibrahim Sheme posts a Kano State Censorship Board press briefing on the film industry which includes … more →
Land Reform is an emotional issue.
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: It is a topic in which the diverging concerns about fairness, rights, order, justice, merit, efficie … more →
a quick graph..
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: I usually tend to think that the benefits of the mobile revolution are a bit overblown but this is j … more →
Isn't this how it always starts ?
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: from the BBC Bundu Dia Kongo (the People of Congo) challenged the state’s authority and tried … more →
Why can't we have better intellectuals ?
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: In the same week, two of Africa’s leading intellectuals have managed to publish pieces on the … more →
The protests in Mozambique are disturbing
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: And so is the GlobalVoices coverage (though I understand Global Voices just reports and in this case … more →
Kenya question
aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Has anyone been nerdy enough to compile and publish a total tally of the votes in the parliamentary … more →
A bad idea from Kenya
aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Via Global Voices, Oscar Obonyo says: Judging from events of the just concluded presidential polls I … more →
A good interview on Oil in the Gulf of Guinea
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: A Second Hand Conjecture has a nice interview of John Ghazvinian author of Untapped: The Scramble Fo … more →
FYI: there's a nuclear reactor in Kinshasa
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/story/0,,1954795,00.html or http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/ … more →
African libertarians need to revisit their classics..
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Franklin Cudjoe, editor of African Liberty, a CATO-sponsored african libertarian platform offers us … more →
criticizing the results of one's own actions...
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Every now and then, for laughs, I quickly browse the website of the Republic of Congo’s semi-o … more →
Is it the audience ?
aflakete wrote 1 year ago: The Bayesian Heresy (approvingly) quotes my post on Ayittey and adds: I think another way to think a … more →
The size of government fallacy
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Ben Ofosu-Appiah makes the mistake in a long article on the socio-political and economic environment … more →
oops
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Things look bad in Kenya. There was a general election on thursday. Huge turn-out for the first post … more →
How do you make it corruption-proof ?
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: I’ve mentionned the Malawi Fertilizer Subsidy program before. Well, the very first time I … more →
Do divided oppositions make incumbents win ?
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: In Africa, that’s it. You’ve heard it before: too many candidates, the opposition split … more →
The problem with Ayittey
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: I had a lightbulb moment when I read this: “if political elites spent less time criticizing go … more →
Links as a bribe
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been suffering from a small case of writer’s block. And I really don’t want t … more →
