Author Archives: mkevane

You can still see some of her work on her website, including some series from Kordofan and South Sudan. Conflicts on the African continent claimed another journalist last week. Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old French photojournalist, is the latest reporter to … Continue reading →

Looks like inflation rate is actually coming down to around 15%, but past several years it has been above 20%.  In 2007 the cedi was redenominated and reissued, basically at 1 cedi per dollar.  The cedi now is at about … Continue reading →

Caroline Tuina, according to press accounts, presented a report on a meeting of the union of media workers (SYNATIC) in her evening news program.  The editor at RTB asked her five minutes before the news program to not run it. … Continue reading →

And it is not just their obsessive listening to Pharell Williams! In short, “it’s remarkable” how just the presence of children seems to protect against declining happiness, Ifcher said.Herbst and Ifcher offer three theories why parents are becoming happier—and what … Continue reading →

Girls are bombarded with messages about how they should look.  The male gaze is always upon them. Most boys, and men, barely look in the mirror.  Dandruff?  Really?  Oh, I’ll brush it off.  Comb-over is not in style?  Oh, but … Continue reading →

The author, Coral Davenport, needs to go to an LRA meeting (Lazy Reporters Anonymous)…. “Hi my name is Coral and writing that the Sahara was expanding through Mali could have been wrong so I added “slow” and that way nobody … Continue reading →

“Tribes are killing each other over water today,” Mr. Kerry said. “Think of what happens if you have massive dislocation, or the drying up of the waters of the Nile, of the major rivers in China and India. The intelligence … Continue reading →

One of my undergraduate student’s wants to use the World Bank’s Gender database for a class project.  Turns out that the data is in “long” format.  Each variable and country is a row, and the years are columns.  Most statistical … Continue reading →

Why four? Why not.  Hell isn’t empty. What if the oil billions had been distributed evenly to private citizens of South Sudan (as some people including yours truly advocated).  The statist “gimmie the consulting job” elite (both national and international) … Continue reading →

It’s the sweet smell of reasonableness… After overcoming years of fiscal dysfunction that stemmed in part from an antitax ballot referendum, Gov. Jerry Brown is trying to call California voters to the ballot again — this time to approve a … Continue reading →

Le Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP) a réuni ses militants pour sa première session du Conseil national samedi à Ouagadougou alors que la classe politique burkinabè est profondément divisée sur des questions telles que le référendum et … Continue reading →

A couple days ago on the blog I remarked on the issue of authenticity in my short review of Tarquin Hall’s Indian detective story. I wish I could say I inspired Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution to then do the … Continue reading →