Grandiose Parlor

• Idland: The better critique of the Oprah critique
  Another excellent post on Oprah’s Academy. The question raised by Financial Times - I have also asked on this site, and it’s one I have yet to find a good answer to, not even from Inland. One thing that I have noticed is why some sensible questions always seem to provoke off-the-point and often negative responses?

• IHT: Skull supports out-of-Africa theory of modern man

• Video Journalist Africa: Report from Jamame in Southern Somalia
  Ruud Elmendorp video-blogs the flood in Southern Somalia.

• IRIN: Botswana’s displaced San finally look set to return home
  Botswana’s displaced San finally look set to return home this week after winning a long-fought court battle to be allowed back to their ancestral land in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR), in the Kalahari Desert.
  See also: EthnicLoft: Botswana: Kalahari Bushmen + Diamonds = Eviction

• TEDBlog: Photographer Phil Borges on TEDTalks
  Photographer Phil Borges displays his remarkable portraits, documenting the world’s disappearing cultures…

• Business in Africa: Africa Must Look East
  “China is not (morally) different to the West, from an African perspective,” he says. “It’s not better or worse. They all want our resources. The real issue is how can we, as Africans, take advantage of the opportunity.”

Ron Hudson, a 21 year survivor of HIV/AIDS living in North Carolina, USA, contacted me a couple of days back about his work: the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP), a blog carnival of and for people living with HIV/AIDS, their families, friends or caregivers.

According to Ron, “one of the aspects of the carnival that is important is that you don’t actually have to have a personal experience with the disease. It can be about your perception of the disease within your culture too.”

His message reads thusly:

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“The Botswana government brutally evicted the Gana and Gwi [tag]Bushmen[/tag] [the San people] from their land in the Central Kalahari, where the De Beers diamond company is also exploring for [tag]diamonds[/tag]…Read more at EthnicLoft