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Shashank in Africa: English 101 with the Eagles
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Friday, April 20, 2007. English 101 with the Eagles. This morning Omar, the irrepressible office manager, came into my room with an urgent request. "I hear you speak a little English," Omar said. (This is a classic Omar joke.) "What does this word mean? He showed me a notepad where he'd written "colitas." I'd never heard the word before. I knew that colitis was an intestinal disease, but I figured/hoped that's not what he came to ask. On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair. Night Ranger trawls KC.
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Shashank in Africa: A rock star and a hard place
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007. A rock star and a hard place. Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty. And development economist to the stars (Bono wrote the foreword to his bestselling book and Angelina Jolie co-starred with him. In an MTV documentary on Africa), spoke last night in Nairobi to the foreign correspondents association. For not giving enough humanitarian aid, especially to Africa. He has calculated the amount of aid to Africa as $16 per poor person per year, over the last 60 years. When the Un...
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Shashank in Africa: February 2006
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006. Good advice from Nigeria. Posted by Shashank @ 8:34 AM. On my current trip to Uganda, however, I'm starting to think that my love is unrequited. Being brown-skinned in Uganda, you take on a complicated history - Indians were expelled by the dictator Idi Amin in the 1970s, but they've returned with a vengeance and now control a greater share of the country's economy than they do in Kenya or Tanzania. Not everyone is happy about this. Posted by Shashank @ 1:00 AM. Meanwhile, b...
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Shashank in Africa: May 2006
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Friday, May 19, 2006. A reader has written in, apparently in response to my most recent article. Maybe I've been out of the U.S. too long, but I didn't understand this. I think this reader has a good point in here somewhere and I'd like to know what it is. A little help? Original Message - - -. Friday, May 19, 2006 6:36 PM. You talk about white people who have it all. They talk about the white man in america who have it all. Why is it right for people think that only black people are the people of african.
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Shashank in Africa: Another perspective on the unthinkable
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Another perspective on the unthinkable. The Arab media are giving prominent coverage to the horrific events. At Virginia Tech yesterday. Al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya and Iraqi television have been reporting the story all morning, so that all the staff at lunch today knew that 32 people had been killed and nearly as many wounded in what everyone is now calling. The worst shooting incident in American history. N in the next few days, Blacksburg may be one for this decade. One of our driv...
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Shashank in Africa: Moving
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Monday, June 04, 2007. This blog has moved to http:/ washingtonbureau.typepad.com/nairobi. There's a new name - "Somewhere in Africa" - and a slightly different mission. I'm now blogging for my employers at McClatchy Newspapers. Who are also launching blogs from our foreign bureaus in Cairo. Jerusalem and Baghdad. Hopefully this will mean a wider audience. And because my bosses are watching, I should also be posting more frequently - which may or may not help with that wider audience thing.
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Shashank in Africa: June 2006
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Monday, June 26, 2006. The heat - my God, the heat! Welcome to Khartoum," the stewardess said as our plane touched down last night in the dark of Sudan's international airport. "The local time is 8:45 pm The temperature is 41 degrees.". That's 41 degrees Celsius - as in, 106 degrees Fahrenheit. At nearly 9 pm. Fortunately, a journalist's trip to Sudan usually begins with making the rounds of various government offices and nongovernmental agencies, most of which are pleasantly air-conditioned. And they do...
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Shashank in Africa: Terror on the roads
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Monday, May 28, 2007. Terror on the roads. I'm back in Kenya after about a month in the U.S., spent visiting the home office in Washington and recovering from a brief reporting stint in Iraq. It's good to be home, despite the mountains of bills to pay and e-mail to sort through. Then, today, I had a very typical, eye-rolling, jaw-clenching Nairobi experience. Here we go,. Not from far away," the officer said. Basically, Thomas was about to receive a ticket due to the officer's blurred vision. Crazy a...
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Shashank in Africa: Confusion
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Saturday, March 31, 2007. How divided is Iraq? For about 24 hours yesterday, the country was split into two time zones. Iraq observes daylight savings time and had been planning to make the switch on Saturday, following the Friday day of prayer. So on Saturday morning, the U.S. military set its clocks ahead one hour. The Associated Press today tried to clear up the mess:. This morning Iraq was to make the switch. But at 9 am (the "new" 9 am) none of our staff. I'm going back to bed. Night Ranger trawls KC.
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Shashank in Africa: (Re)birth of a cocktail
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Monday, March 19, 2007. Re)birth of a cocktail. After Talisman's requisite fresh tangerine juice and awesome feta-and-coriander samosas ( recently praised. In the New York Times) we moved on to a friend's house for some drinks on the patio. That eventually gave way to a ritual viewing of "The Big Lebowski," which, to do. Just right, requires that you consume multiple White Russians (no sasparilla in Nairobi). Posted by Shashank @ 2:01 AM. Bhargavi's adventures in public health. Yat feels good all the time.
