Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Pan-African Identity

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 Henry L. Gates on PBS points out there were 50 ethnic groups in the enslaved people brought to US. From other reading I know Africa has mor...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The Wave of the Future

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NYTimes reports on refugees from Africa coming to Portland, ME.  Part of the reason for their selection of Portland is prior immigrants hav...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Import Brains (Continued)

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Via Marginal Revolution  an article on the amazing success of Nigerian-Americans.  Some points which occur to me: importing immigrants ...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Kenya and Space

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President Trump supposedly doesn't think much of African countries.  He might be surprised, as I was, at the news Kenya has its own sa...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Town Folk Taking Over

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My mother had her prejudices; one of which was against town or city folk.  She knew they didn't understand farming, and therefore failed...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Feminists--Move to Rwanda

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I was surprised by this: " Post-conflict Rwanda today has the highest rate of female legislative representation in the world – 63.8 per...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Surprise: African Immigrants More Educated than Asian

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In an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Journal of Blacks in higher education, African immigrants to the United States were found more...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Long Life of Established Wisdom

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A long life can toss up instances where the established wisdom changes rather rapidly.  Here's one: In its issue of May 13, 2000, The ...
Friday, May 13, 2016

A Basis for Global Optimism

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I'm optimistic on the U.S.; I'm even more optimistic on the world.  Remember I grew up when colonialism was ending, and the West was...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Number of Tractors: 1920 US Versus 2000 Africa

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The World Bank has a post on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa.  Now I'm going by memory, which is that Prof. Pollan in Omnivore's D...
Monday, April 01, 2013

History Repeats: Kenya, Cellphones and I-Cow

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Been doing some reading (and a little writing) in the history of USDA, extension, etc.  The theme I see there is that USDA worked for the mo...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Perils of Blogging

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From Chris Blattman , who's on vacation in Vietnam: I only realized this by accident, when I peeked into my email Inbox for one mea...
Friday, November 25, 2011

GW Bush: Lifesaver?

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Any faithful readers will know I rarely say anything good of any Republican, except my parents and they're dead.  But I was struck by th...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Cotton Price Supports

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Back in the day, Oxfam was waging war against US cotton farm programs on behalf of the African cotton growers (in Burkina Faso, etc.). The a...
Friday, February 04, 2011

How Rich Is the Richest Black Person in the World

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$10 billion . (He's an Ethiopean.) Hat tip: Chris Blattman
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Importance of Bureaucracy

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Via Tyler Cowan at Marginal Revolution, this interesting discussion of the gains in human development (i.e., education and health) in nort...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Good News from Africa

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Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution links to two studies suggesting Africa is doing better than we expect, poverty is falling and statisti...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Exaggerations With Respect to African Land

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The headline on this piece , "50,000,000 Acres..." seems to be unsupported. It's carried over from the post to which it refers...