Loomnie
A blog by loomnie
Blog description:
Experiences, thoughts, ideas and opinions
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Loomnie ranks 87 in Africa and 11 in Nigeria. According to site visitors it ranks 248, and 285 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 153 and 171 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Blacks in Mexico
By Alexis Okeowo for More Intelligent Life. If you have not heard of Mexico’s native blacks, you are not alone. The story that has been passed down through generations is that their ancestors arrived on a slave boat filled with Cubans and Haitians, which sank off Mexico’s Pacific coast.
The Social meaning of the power law
If you count the book sales on Amazon and plot them according to frequency, the curve hugs the vertical and horizontal axes, indicating a few very large numbers (the blockbusters) and many small ones (the ‘long tail’ of books like yours and mine). This is a typical manifestation
Two short stories
1. Sefi Atta’s Simpatico 2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Quality Street. Both guest-edited by Claire Messud for Guernica Magazine. Share/Save
What is the current state of the culture in development debate?
Our hunch is that its place [culture in development] has already shifted since we wrote Seeing Culture Everywhere. On the one hand, there is China and David Brooks. On the other, there is a new trend in “development thinking” around the World Bank and elsewhere (like Narayan. Pritchett
Nneka on David Letterman
Nigerian-born singer, Nneka, performs on David Letterman’s show. Someone writes on Twitter, ‘it feels good to hear ‘Nigeria’ being mentioned for something good on US National TV. …’ I wrote about her first album a couple of years ago here. Share/Save
Should Nigeria Break Up?
Sola Odunfa, Nigerian journalist, writes in an article on the BBC website: I often ask myself: Should Nigeria break up, how many countries will it produce? I am not aware that any three of its more than 200 ethnic groups sincerely agree so much as to come together in
Lionel Loueke
Just learnt of him through NPR’s A Blog Supreme. A short bio: Loueke was born in Benin, studied music in the Ivory Coast as a teenager, did further jazz-specific training in Paris for five years and finally ended up with a Berklee scholarship. In Boston, he met his trio:
Would you buy a Zuma doll?
The factory that is making the SA 2010 World Cup mascots is said to be making a Zuma doll. ANC says it does not know about it but promises to investigate. Check out the story here. Plus some commentary here. Share/Save
The Economist reviews Clint Eastwood’s Invictus
CLINT EASTWOOD’S “Invictus” has given Morgan Freeman, a 72-year-old ever-rising cinematic star from Memphis, Tennessee, his best chance yet to show what a canny actor he is. The year is 1995, just 14 months after South Africa’s first multiracial elections. Nelson Mandela wants to use the rugby World
Monday Links #1
1. Unmet promises tied to ebb of truce in Niger Delta – NYTimes 2. No. 1 above has led to attacks, which in turn have led to Shell announcing on Sunday that it had shut down three pumping stations in the region – Reuters 3. Gaddafi goes, Bingu
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