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[NEWS] Some Wednesday links
- Bloomberg talks about Poland's problems with economic growth, notes that McMansions are poor investments, considers what to do about the Olympics post-Rio, looks at new Japanese tax incentives for working women, looks at a French war museum that put its stock up for sale, examines the power of the New Zealand dairy, looks at the Yasukuni ( Read more... )
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[CAT] "Lions Return to Rwanda for First Time Since Genocide’s Aftermath"
Paul Steyn of National Geographic writes about the reintroduction of lions to Rwanda.
Jes Gruner was excited when he told me over the phone that the lions had made their first kill ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "In push to modernize, Rwandan capital struggles to house its population"
Jonathan W. Rosen at Al Jazeera America looks at the various contentious, costly, and often mutually contradictory plans to modernize Rwanda's capital of Kigali.
At the edge of the Rwandan capital, on a hillside formerly packed with small houses made of compressed earth, Wang Zenkhun pours over a map of what will soon be the East African country’s ( Read more... ) -
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- 80 Beats lets us know that research examining HIV-positive people able to resist progression to AIDS suggests that these people share a one of a specific cluster of mutations letting their immune system order infected cells to self-destruct.
- BAGNewsNotes has photographs from an Atlanta-area church devoted to the prosperity gospel, using the rhetoric ( Read more... )
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[DM] "A note on identity, migration, and citizenship in East Africa"
I've a post up at Demography Matters that draws from Paul Kagame's recent reelection in Rwanda to examine how, in the densely populated African Great Lakes area of East Africa, colonial borders and post-colonial stupidities have helped create massive humanitarian crisis after humanitarian crisis. Will the circle be broken? There's some hope, at -
[LINK] "For Rwandan Students, Ethnic Tensions Lurk"
Josh Kron's article explores how the Rwandan governments efforts to close down public discussions about the Hutu-Tutsi differences that resulted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has led to a displacement of these differences to areas as diverse as preferred second language and policies which punish students for dissenting from the official line.
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[LINK] Two Rwanda links
I've two links of interest up, one of the replacement of French by English as Rwanda's dominant language, the other about the misuse of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 in politics.
- In MacLean's, Kaj Hasselriis writes ("French is out of fashion in Rwanda"
Jean’s trip will mark the first state visit to Rwanda from a Commonwealth country since it joined ( Read more... )