. . . A few stories from recent weeks that slipped through the cracks but warrant attention:
At The New Republic’s new and exciting online endeavor, “The Book,” Ben Wallace-Wells, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, reviews Bertrand Taithe’s The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa.
According to Foreign Policy, Goodluck Jonathan’s new cabinet “seems designed to send two messages: To the international community, it gives all the ‘right’ signals of stability. To the Nigerian politburo, it says get loyal or get out.”
Zimbabwe’s new indigenization laws? Not good for the country’s stock market, which actually had been burgeoning, relatively speaking.
Celebrities might not know everything when it comes to how to “save” Africa after all. Shocking, I know.
