Loomnie: What is making me happy today – Zoë Keating
Zoë Keating performing Escape Artist. This is her website.
View ArticleLoomnie: On Comparing Chavez to a Communist-era Eastern European Dictator
Mariya Ivancheva in CriticAtac To make an analogy between Chávez’s social democracy and the “totalitarian” socialism in Eastern Europe is an easy task mostly for the representatives of organizations...
View ArticleLoomnie: Moving ‘White Man’s Deads’ is no second hand business
I wrote this for Chimurenga Chronic a while ago: Since the 1970s, the importation of second-hand clothing has been banned in Nigeria. People give different reasons for the policy. An official of...
View ArticleLoomnie: One research I’d love to do
Ethnographic research with African traders and migrants in China. Research appetite adequately whetted by: Ghanaian merchant Ben Owusu-Achiaw said many of the African companies he works with have...
View ArticleLoomnie: ‘Islam is not a monolith’ – Mohsin Hamid
It is somewhat depressing to have to say this, but in the light of the reaction to the Woolwich attack (see this article, contains today’s Guardian frontpage), and the fact that the attackers were...
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I find interesting (Reboot)
Been quite busy these past few months. Which does not mean that I haven’t been reading a lot of great articles that are worthy of sharing, or even that I haven’t been sharing quite a bit of them....
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I find interesting
1. The Late James Gandolfini, Star of The Sopranos, Appears on Inside the Actors Studio (2004) 2. ‘Jews Aren’t Allowed to Use Phones’: Berlin’s Most Unsettling Memorial 3. Oil companies in emerging...
View ArticleLoomnie: *Debunking Myths About Highly-Skilled Immigration and the Global...
The comment boards of articles about immigration are often filled with heart-wrenching stories of American engineers who can’t find employment. They too blame foreigners for their woes. So what gives?...
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I find interesting
1. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Subprime Borrowers. See also Ken Opalo’s comment on the issue 2. Defeating global poverty is the latest start-up trend. But is there really an app for that? And Felix Salmon...
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I Find Interesting
1. George Bush, Nicholas Kristof and the Hunger Games 2. On the rich symbolism and ribald comic vitality of Pedro Almodovar’s I’m So Excited 3. Transnational Gender Vertigo (deserves a post all to...
View ArticleLoomnie: *African Development in the 21st Century*
A sizable chunk from a lengthy piece by the ever insightful Keith Hart: Every person of African descent, whatever their actual history and experience – they could be Barack Obama, for example —...
View ArticleLoomnie: Focusing on the poetics of the belly
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, publisher of Cassava Republic Press talks about book publishing in Nigeria.
View ArticleLoomnie: “A letter to the village” by Sharon Dodua Otoo
“Dear Elders, You may already know that I am legally required to send my sons to school because we live in Germany and home education is not permitted here. In this country, all children are taught a...
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I Find Interesting
1. Teju Cole’s Letter from Lagos: Madmen and Specialists 2. How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad 3. Challenging neoliberal population control 4. “As it turns out, high-functioning...
View ArticleLoomnie: Anthropology for Kids
Some friends and I are working on a series of books titled Anthropology for Kids. Each book will contain different ways of relating to a major human question – what Dostoevsky called “cursed...
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I Find Interesting
1. Keith Hart and Horacio Ortiz are reviewing the anthropology of money and finance 2. “she arrived with a gift of bespoke lingerie: a camisole with an image of Sigmund Freud printed on it—a Freudian...
View ArticleLoomnie: Probably the most severe Airbus A380 commentary you’ll read
…the pinnacle of aesthetic disregard was achieved upon rollout of Airbus’s biggest and most ballyhooed creation: the enormous, double-decked A380. With maximum takeoff weight of more than a million...
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