Poverty Archive
Tanzanian Graduation Class of 2010
It’s high school graduation time! A time for celebration, parties and boasting! Here’s a selection of graduates from Tanzania. I’d like to know which you’d like to meet.
These four kids have been born and raised in northern Tanzania, but their stories are replicated continent-wide.
Headed to the University of Cape Town’s engineering school [...]
Righting Old Wrongs Does Not Need to Destroy the Economy
By Conor Godfrey
All countries with a colonial history struggle with the psychological and economic impact of colonialism.
In many African countries, colonial masters empowered one people group over another and left a legacy of racial or tribal inequality that persists to this day.
This legacy is particularly potent in South Africa, where the gap [...]
Guns, Germs, Steel, and Internet Access
By Conor Godfrey
If you believe Jared diamond, geography gave certain parts of the world a first mover advantage that has exerted tremendous influence on world affairs from the dawn of agricultural societies to the present.
Around 8500 BC, the Fertile Crescent had 32 large seed grasses that lent themselves to rudimentary cultivation; Sub-Saharan Africa [...]
War in Ngorongoro?
Posted by jimheck in Ngorongoro Crater, Politics, Poverty, Wildlife Management on February 25, 2010
Education is fine if you’ve got something to do with it. Is there going to be war in Ngorongoro?
The great experiment known as the “NCA” in what ABC’s Good Morning America christened one of the world’s Natural Wonders is coming apart.
Most tourists know it as “The Crater.” But Ngorongoro Crater [...]
WHICH AFRICA?
This morning the breakfast hall of the Norfolk was quite full. The hotel is being used by many attending a very large conference in Nairobi.
The buffet breakfast was robust as usual: one side table was filled with fresh cut fruits: grapefruit, watermelon, oranges, mangoes, several kinds of passion fruits, placed next to a tub [...]