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Chinese in Africa
In the BusinessDay of October 27, 2009 The most popular way of looking at China in Africa is through the dual lenses of international relations and international trade. One main[…]
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Anthropologically Speaking · Column
On Religious Tolerance
In the BusinessDay of October 20, 2009 Sometime a couple of years ago, during the Christmas season, I was at a bank in Ibadan with a friend. A man came[…]
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Anthropology and Finance
In the BusinessDay of October 13, 2009 The world recently marked a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an incident that has been described by many as the beginning[…]
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On the recent German elections
From the BusinessDay of October 6, 2009 To become a member of the German parliament, the Bundestag, one either has to be directly elected to represent a constituency, or one[…]
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The Problem with Aid
As it appeared in the BusinessDay of September 29, 2009 Ms Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid is about the problems of foreign aid. She not only claims that aid does not[…]
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Of Stereotypes
As it appeared in the BusinessDay of September 21, 2009 Part I Regular readers of this column would probably realise by now that I have a thing for stereotypes. Well,[…]
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Listros
As it appeared in the BusinessDay of September 15, 2009 Permit me to introduce you to Dawit Shanko. He was born in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, in 1968, and spent[…]
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Berlin
As it appeared in the BusinessDay of September 8, 2009 I was walking down the main street in Neukölln, an area of Berlin, when a middle-aged man stopped me to[…]
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Thinking through kids
As it appeared in the BusinessDay of September 1, 2009 Act One A couple of days ago I joined one of my friends to pick up his daughter at the[…]
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Waste, Toxins, Cancer
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[…]