The World is Watching “The world is watching what we do here.” The words flooded my ears like the first day of rain after the dry season. Barack Obama’s speech in Texas crackled from an old television set into the green patio of a dusty hotel in Yabello, Ethiopia. It was early March, and Obama [...]
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Obamamania in Kenya
Posted in Africa on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ailing in Addis
Posted in Africa, life on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A classic form of torture is the practice of ripping off the fingernails of the victim until the information is forcefully and mercilessly extracted. For a CLP reporter, a single fingernail torn out by the quick bite of a rusty folding chair, to the smell of unpalatable spaghetti, only evokes sympathetic questions. And while such [...]
