African Art and the Colonial Encounter : Inventing a Global Commodity by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir has been reviewed for H-AfrArts by Joseph Nevadomsky. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity. Bloomington Indiana University Press, 2007. xviii + 381 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-34892-0; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-21922-0. Reviewed by [Read More]
Nov 302009
Sharing the benefits around large dams in West Africa by The International Institute for Environment and Development Major dams have long been criticised by NGOs, however they need not necessarily spell disaster for the communities they displace, if benefits from the dam can be shared over its whole lifetime. The report “Sharing the benefits of [Read More]
Nov 272009
Things you see transported on bikes, motorbike, wheelbarrows, cars, buses and lorries constantly win the funny photo stakes in Mali. I never cease to be amazed at what people transport and how they do it.