Archive for August, 2009

Waste, Toxins, Cancer

0 / August 26, 2009 6:01 am

As it appeared in the BusinessDay of August 25, 2009 Sometime last year Chris Carrol, a National Geographic writer, wrote a report about what he saw while researching what happens to e-waste from the developed world. It goes roughly like [...]

Ritual Killing or Organ Trafficking?

0 / August 19, 2009 5:51 am

As it appeared in the BusinessDay of August 18, 2009 Anthropologist Nancy Sheper-Hughes is well-known around the world for her research into the illegal trafficking of human organs. You probably know of cases of wealthy Americans who travel to India [...]

Hillary Clinton’s Nigeria trip, filtered

14 / August 16, 2009 8:11 pm

United States’ Secretary of States Hillary Clinton flew into Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, last Tuesday night, August 11th, to spend nearly three days in her 11-day, seven-country tour of the African continent. As might be expected, the Nigerian blogosphere [...]

Someone in the government has been reading Hernando de Soto

0 / August 11, 2009 5:44 am

As it appeared in the BusinessDay of August 11, 2009 Hernando de Soto’s major contribution to development studies and practice is the idea that there is so much capital locked away in the backyard of developing countries, and that only [...]

Female Husbands

1 / August 11, 2009 5:40 am

As it appeared in the BusinessDay of August 4, 2009 In Lagos sometime last year, I was introduced to someone as an anthropologist, and he said – I suppose as a compliment – that he was happy that there are [...]

Say you’re one of them…

2 / August 10, 2009 4:47 pm

Uduak, of the Nollyarts blog and co-producer of the child witches’ documentary – Edikan – shares her thoughts on the coverage of the Akwa Ibom Child witch phenomenon in the Nigerian blogosphere. Say you’re one of them is a collection [...]

Do we need the state in Africa?

0 / August 2, 2009 6:59 am

As it appeared in the BusinessDay of July 28, 2009 Sometime last year, at the urging of a friend, I downloaded and listened to a podcast from the American libertarian Cato institute. The Cato Institute invited a panel of speakers [...]