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Here is all 856 of my posts:

January 2012 (5)
- 02: Happy 2012!! (0)
- 06: In praise of a second passport (1)
- 12: Book Launch (0)
- 15: History of corruption in Nigerian leadership (1)
- 27: Robert Reich: The 7 Biggest Economic Lies (video) (0)
December 2011 (2)
- 08: Call for applications: Cultural Diplomacy (0)
- 11: Bankers are the dictators of the West (1)
November 2011 (4)
- 17: European leaders are ditching democracy to save the Euro (0)
- 17: Werner Herzog talks to Jian Ghomeshi of Studio Q (0)
- 18: Friday links (0)
- 24: On foreign-directed PR by African leaders (0)
October 2011 (6)
- 01: Elder’s Corner: A documentary about Nigeria’s musical icons (0)
- 01: Being an Oktoberfest waiter (0)
- 19: David Graeber on #OWS (0)
- 20: What is making me happy this morning – Verdi opera flashmob (0)
- 20: On the “informal economy” (0)
- 24: Our increasingly quantified world (0)
September 2011 (15)
- 02: Friday links (0)
- 02: Senegal hunts for oil (0)
- 03: Books I’ve read this summer (2)
- 03: Aljazeera focuses on Nigeria (0)
- 05: Nigerian bragging right of the day (0)
- 05: Nigeria’s CBN to shift about 10 percent of FX reserves from dollar to RMB (0)
- 08: Call for Papers – Speaking in tongues: Power/knowledge and languages divides in African studies (0)
- 08: Words, Spirits and History: A review of Gilbert Rist’s The History of Development (0)
- 09: What is it like to live in Europe with an African identity? – Aljazeera video (1)
- 11: On the lack of expertise in America’s foreign policy (0)
- 15: An anthropological study of bankers (0)
- 16: What is making me happy this morning – music (0)
- 20: What is making me happy today – music (0)
- 21: On Boko Haram (0)
- 27: On the case of disappearing penises (0)
August 2011 (27)
- 03: Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines: The top 1 percent in America (0)
- 05: Friday links (0)
- 06: What is making me happy today – music (0)
- 07: The Economist Intelligence Unit reports on Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa (1)
- 07: Alain de Botton on Pessimism (0)
- 09: Norwegian comments on US coverage of the Norway terror (0)
- 11: Michael Lewis on the Germans (2)
- 12: How a Chinese Syndicate is Screwing Africa (0)
- 12: David Graeber on the History of Debt (video) (0)
- 14: Flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station plays Bolero (Ravel) (0)
- 15: Warren Buffet: The rich should be paying a lot more tax (0)
- 16: Nouriel Roubini: Karl Marx Was Right about Capitalism Self-destructing (0)
- 16: CFP: Special Issue of African Identities on Contemporary Youth Cultures in Africa (0)
- 16: CFP – Borders and Borderlands: Contested Spaces (0)
- 17: On The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – a bimetallism allegory (0)
- 19: Friday links (0)
- 22: Grim story of asylum application denied, self-sacrifice, and possible denial of citizenship (0)
- 22: Profiteering from the famine in Somalia? (video) (0)
- 23: Gadhafi’s tentacles in Africa (0)
- 24: How a bee sees the world (0)
- 24: Noam Chomsky explains the Cold War in 5 minutes (0)
- 25: Nigerian government’s not-so-detailed medium-term economic plan (0)
- 26: Friday links (1)
- 27: A stork fights neo-Nazis (0)
- 30: Renminbi may replace dollar in Sino-African trade (0)
- 31: What is making me happy today – music (0)
- 31: What would happen to the Franc Zone economy if the European Monetary Union breaks up? (0)
July 2011 (10)
- 04: An anthropologist’s take on development economists (2)
- 04: Germany and the Eurozone crisis (1)
- 07: Europeans against Multiculturalism (0)
- 08: Friday links (2)
- 15: Why economics needs the history of thought (1)
- 16: The Euro Crisis Song (0)
- 20: “Europe needs Africa. Who’d have thought it?” (2)
- 26: What is making me happy today (music) (0)
- 27: In the spirit of debt ceilings and triple-A ratings (0)
- 28: The Economist reviews Teju Cole’s Open City (0)
June 2011 (11)
- 01: What’s making me happy today – music (0)
- 06: Monday Music – Asa’s Why Can’t We (0)
- 09: How flat is the world? (0)
- 10: Viva Riva – “Best African Movie” (0)
- 11: On The Book of Mormon – the musical (1)
- 14: On Bitcoin (0)
- 15: Ha-Joon Chang – Economics Upside Down (0)
- 23: On Africa 2.0 (0)
- 24: On financial services in Africa (1)
- 24: Do Europeans recognize why they need Europe? (0)
- 28: On the history of the corporation (1)
May 2011 (20)
- 01: Energy policy and nuclear power after Fukushima (0)
- 02: On the public and private sectors in Nigeria (0)
- 03: What motivates us? (Video) (0)
- 10: On the ethnography of finance (0)
- 11: Wednesday Links (0)
- 12: A profile of Werner Herzog (0)
- 13: Schengen countries to reintroduce national border control (0)
- 15: Stephen Smith on Laurent Gbagbo (0)
- 20: Friday links (0)
- 22: Femi Kuti on Al Jazeera’s One on One (0)
- 23: “Trafficking accounts for up to ten per cent of transplants globally” (0)
- 24: 3 Doctoral Scholarships on West Africa (0)
- 25: Despite optimism in Africa, it only gets about 4.5% of global FDI (0)
- 26: Aljazeera’s documentary on Lagos (0)
- 27: “A Prayer for My Daughter” by Tina Fey (1)
- 28: The Economist reports on Nigeria’s prospects (0)
- 28: Because it is nostalgic Saturday – Video (0)
- 28: Lady Gaga talks to Stephen Fry (0)
- 29: On technology, birdwatching, liking, and loving (0)
- 30: Growing up Nigerian – Boarding school edition (Video) (0)
April 2011 (19)
- 02: China opens world’s largest museum (0)
- 02: Music break – Far Away (0)
- 05: In praise of futile acts of resistance (1)
- 06: Quote of the day (0)
- 07: Adichie and Soyinka talk to Riz Khan on democracy in Nigeria (0)
- 08: Friday links (0)
- 10: The Bank of Facebook? (0)
- 11: Monday links (0)
- 12: On social networks, democracy and fundamentalism (0)
- 17: CFP from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan (1)
- 17: Europe and America’s ‘master narratives’ of Africa (0)
- 19: Blurring the lines between music, words and sounds (Video) (0)
- 20: The current assault on Microcredit (0)
- 21: China in Africa, cont’d (2)
- 22: Regulating the Social Impacts of Speculative Financial Practices (0)
- 25: “How evangelical Christianity is taking a hold of the City of London’s financial institutions” (0)
- 26: Morning Music (1)
- 27: RCT, economics and qualitative research (4)
- 28: Kwame Appiah reviews Peter Firstbrook’s book on Obama’s family (0)
March 2011 (15)
- 01: Tuesday music – Saya by Sona Jobarteh (0)
- 07: On Mr Bankole’s verbal diarrhoea (0)
- 08: Fiction as a route to political truth (1)
- 08: Africa banking rising (0)
- 21: Sorry for the break in transmission (0)
- 21: Nigerian pop star in China (0)
- 24: Kofi Annan on the threat to Africa’s fledgling democracy (0)
- 24: On intellectual property rights and antiretroviral drugs (0)
- 24: When economists misunderstand biology (0)
- 25: Friday links (0)
- 25: Video of BBC World Debate: Is Homosexuality un-African? (1)
- 26: Nigeria, vote wisely in the 2011 Elections (0)
- 26: Museveni on Qaddafi (0)
- 28: A Bleg: Where are the psychologists doing research in Africa? (4)
- 29: Music break (0)
February 2011 (19)
- 01: Tuesday afternoon music break (0)
- 01: Democracy is back – how awkward (1)
- 03: On the importance of communication “revolutions” (0)
- 04: Friday Links (1)
- 04: PhD Studentships (0)
- 07: Does Aid work for Growth and Development? (2)
- 07: China’s soft power in Africa (1)
- 09: “At the heart of it all is a new sociological type: the graduate with no future” (3)
- 11: Friday Links (0)
- 17: Asa in Berlin (0)
- 17: Former Google Nigeria manager singlehandedly codes solution for Nigeria’s voter registration (2)
- 20: An impressive bio of Dambisa Moyo (0)
- 21: A review of Teju Cole’s Open City (1)
- 21: Monday noon music break (1)
- 22: Asa sings “Broda ole” for Zeit Online (1)
- 25: African Bloggers Statement on David Kato and Uganda (1)
- 28: The world is obsessed with Facebook (0)
- 28: On the conservativeness of the Oscars (3)
- 28: On the New World Disorder (0)
January 2011 (26)
- 01: On Negrologie (0)
- 01: BBC World Service presents 2010 in Africa (0)
- 02: Secondhand Clothing: Mediating Aspirations and Desires (0)
- 03: Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (0)
- 04: Is globalisation on the retreat in 2011? (0)
- 04: Nigeria’s Guardian names Man of the Year (0)
- 05: Wednesday Links (0)
- 05: When does war become genocide? (0)
- 06: Nigeria’s Central Bank governor wins international recognition (0)
- 07: Friday Links (0)
- 08: Insights from an ethnography of the American housing market (1)
- 09: Sunday music: Onyeka Onwenu (0)
- 10: The Emperor of All Maladies (0)
- 11: An analysis of Nigeria’s attempts to reform its oil sector (1)
- 12: Wednesday links (0)
- 14: Two thoughtful articles on Islam and violence in Northern Nigeria (0)
- 16: Planet Money’s list of must-read economics books (0)
- 17: Chinua Achebe and Keith Hart on Africa’s Promise and Hope (7)
- 18: Tuesday Links (0)
- 19: How far back to go in telling the stories (2)
- 19: Come to Germany!! (1)
- 20: Done with the Ph.D. (13)
- 21: How far back to go in telling the stories? – A response (1)
- 22: The Economist rips Dambisa Moyo’s How the West Was Lost apart (1)
- 26: A new African news/opinion website (1)
- 28: Reflections on the non-existent health system (0)
December 2010 (12)
- 02: Nigeria to try Dick Cheney for corruption (0)
- 03: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (0)
- 03: Friday Links #49 (0)
- 04: The cultural significance of America’s increasing consumption of sushi (0)
- 06: Monday Music – Je veux by Zaz (0)
- 08: Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value (0)
- 08: Is Somali money transfer infrastructure channeling dirty money or development capital? (0)
- 12: Nigeria’s former president Obasanjo eats dinner with the FT (0)
- 12: German president becomes godfather to child from a neo-nazi family (0)
- 15: Call for PhD Application (0)
- 29: Why do firms exist? (0)
- 30: Top Nigerian news of 2010 (0)
November 2010 (20)
- 01: CFP: Financialization and Everyday Life (0)
- 01: How to nudge Nigeria towards a benign trajectory (0)
- 02: Arm aber sexy (poor but sexy) (0)
- 12: A life on Facebook (0)
- 12: ‘West Africa’s transport system is costliest in the world’ (0)
- 12: Recapitalising Nigerian banks (0)
- 12: Germany and immigrants (0)
- 14: Asa et la belle Afrique imparfaite (0)
- 14: Two jazz musicians talk after their gig (0)
- 15: Roubini on African markets (0)
- 15: Polanyi on Adam Smith (0)
- 15: Listening to those who have never heard of the MDGs (0)
- 17: If you could choose your coloniser (0)
- 19: Friday Links #48 (0)
- 19: Friday Music Break (0)
- 21: On the similarities between the financial rhetorics of colonialism and development (0)
- 24: A very good explanation of the Irish problem (0)
- 24: An anthropological take on the euro crisis (0)
- 25: Who manages Nigeria’s foreign reserves? (0)
- 26: In which I wonder about development and myths (0)
October 2010 (11)
- 02: Democratising the development discourse (0)
- 04: CFP: Material Culture, Craft & Community: Negotiating Objects Across Time & Place (0)
- 13: Can Nigeria make BRIC? (0)
- 16: Nigerian tailor-made fashion (0)
- 16: Saturday Morning Music – Asa’s Be My Man (1)
- 16: Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria (0)
- 16: A Chinese Business School in Ghana (0)
- 16: On Google, China and neo-informationalism (0)
- 21: The Transition from Industrial Capitalism to a Financialized Bubble Economy (0)
- 21: Kinshasa Symphony (0)
- 24: CFP: Engaging the Francophone/Anglophone divide in researching Africa (0)
September 2010 (9)
- 07: Benin-Nigeria cross-border trade in historical perspective (0)
- 15: Freshlyground and the Zimbabwean government (0)
- 15: How much does technological development owe to pornography? (0)
- 15: Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie reads Jamaica Kincaid (0)
- 16: New York Magazine profiles Jon Stewart (0)
- 21: Niall Ferguson lecture on an evolutionary approach to the history of finance (0)
- 21: CFP: The Global Financial Crisis and Africa: Issues and Challenges (0)
- 25: Nigeria@50 – A Series (1)
- 30: Links – Nigeria at 50 Edition (1)
August 2010 (11)
- 01: Not all development problems are money problems (0)
- 03: “Economics should never be treated as a science” (2)
- 08: Helon Habila recommends three Nigerian fiction books (0)
- 08: A sensible editorial on Paul Kagame (0)
- 09: Social networks, migration and trade (0)
- 17: Police corruption in Nigeria (0)
- 21: Saturday links (1)
- 25: Why can’t African access global payment services? (2)
- 27: Nigerian power industry to be liberalised (0)
- 30: How did sport get so big? (0)
- 31: Industrial efficiency news of the day (0)
July 2010 (15)
- 04: Sunday afternoon music – Nigerian oldies (0)
- 07: D8 seeks to reduce trade barriers (0)
- 08: Immigration sentence to ponder (1)
- 16: Is neoliberalism dead or dying? (1)
- 16: Hijacking Civil Society (0)
- 16: Foot in mouth disease (0)
- 17: Vocal Slender on the BBC (0)
- 17: A different kind of reality TV show (0)
- 17: ‘The gravity-defying headwraps worn by Nigerian women’ (0)
- 18: The Economist has a new blog focusing on Africa (1)
- 18: Nigeria’s inflation at lowest point in two years (0)
- 20: Nigerian government to buy non-performing loans off troubled banks’ balance sheets (0)
- 21: Sub-Sahara Africa MD of IHS Global Insight compares Africa to other regions (0)
- 29: World Bank cautions on land acquisition in Africa (0)
- 30: Conditional cash transfer schemes (0)
June 2010 (20)
- 02: African companies spread out in Africa (0)
- 03: Actor-Network Theory in Plain English (0)
- 04: Lijadu Sisters in rehearsal and conversation (0)
- 05: Nigeria’s official unemployment figure (1)
- 06: Reviews of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book (1)
- 08: Nigerian Central Bank governor says oil subsidy ‘immoral’ (1)
- 08: Nigeria’s forgotten oil spills (0)
- 11: Friday Links #47 (0)
- 15: China drafting first ever immigration law (1)
- 16: The perils of studying economics (0)
- 17: Thursday morning links (0)
- 18: Wole Soyinka documentary on South Africa (0)
- 20: Assorted links (0)
- 20: Judith Butler turns down civil courage award from Berlin Pride: ‘I must distance myself from racist complicity’ (1)
- 20: Hoisted from comments: On Ayaan Hirsi Ali – “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn’t become a monster” (2)
- 26: Our Road – Lee Oskar (0)
- 26: Hank Crawford – I’ve Just Seen a Face (0)
- 27: Gary Becker proposes making a market in immigration (0)
- 28: Fixing the giant: Can Nigeria’s textile industry regain lost glory? (0)
- 29: The East African common market (0)
May 2010 (26)
- 02: Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, and aid (0)
- 04: Johny Nash – Rock me baby (0)
- 05: On Capitalism and Development (0)
- 05: Commonwealth observers sent to watch British elections (0)
- 05: The state of investigative journalism in Nigeria (1)
- 06: President Goodluck Jonathan sworn in (0)
- 07: Friday music break – Nahawa Doumbia singing Banani (1)
- 07: Friday Links #45 – On Yar’Adua’s death (1)
- 08: How useful is an approach that integrates institutional analysis with elements of cognitive science for anthropology? (0)
- 12: Liberian President Sirleaf pays tribute to late President Yar’Adua (1)
- 12: France and Francophone Africa (4)
- 15: Want to understand the Greek financial crisis? (0)
- 15: danah boyd on Facebook, privacy, and other issues (4)
- 17: Business advice for the Nigerian 2010 election season (0)
- 19: Nigerian senator defends his marriage to a 13 year-old (0)
- 19: Early morning links (0)
- 19: George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton propose ‘Identity Economics’ (1)
- 20: Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, On The Rocks (1)
- 20: ‘Nobody knows what he [Goodluck Jonathan] stands for’ (0)
- 21: Is microfinance a neo-liberal con? (0)
- 21: Friday links #46 (0)
- 22: Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Research on ‘The Human Economy’’ (1)
- 22: Sanou Mbaye on Françafrique (1)
- 24: 820 prisoners on death row sue state governors and the comptroller-general of prisons (0)
- 26: Introducing NN24, a Nigerian 24 hour news station (1)
- 30: Nigeria’s oil spill agonies dwarfs the Gulf of Mexico oil spill (5)
April 2010 (22)
- 01: Economics, mathematics and psychosis (0)
- 13: Tarantino versus the Cohen Brothers (0)
- 13: Books I’m currently reading (0)
- 13: Radiolab podcast and hookworm (0)
- 13: Workshop: Recycling Textile Technologies (1)
- 14: A brilliant review of Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion and Wars, Guns and Votes (1)
- 16: Friday Links #42 (0)
- 18: Sweden plans to introduce tuition fees for non-EU students (0)
- 19: Petina Gappah on Mugabe and Zimbabwe at 30 (0)
- 19: Can the West learn from the way China works in Africa? (0)
- 19: Nigeria’s foreign trade policy (0)
- 19: A well-written article on the Benin-Nigeria trade and economic relationship (0)
- 23: Friday Links #43 (0)
- 25: My take on *Welcome to Lagos* (5)
- 27: Guardian editorial on Welcome to Lagos (0)
- 27: Achebe writes a book on the Nigerian civil war (0)
- 27: Chairman of Nigeria’s ruling party arrested on corruption charges (0)
- 27: Current state of the Nigerian economy (0)
- 27: On political leadership and anthropology: AIDS in South Africa (0)
- 28: Nigerian political dinosaurs (0)
- 29: Wole Soyinka on political correctness as condescension (0)
- 30: Friday Links #44 (0)
March 2010 (28)
- 02: Tesco launches a recycled clothing collection line (5)
- 03: Afternoon music break – Cheikh Lô (0)
- 05: Friday links #39 (0)
- 06: Swiss animals may get state-funded lawyers (0)
- 07: The Turai Yar’Adua distraction (8)
- 07: Oumou Sangare – Dugu Kamalemba (2)
- 08: Anthropology and Economics (0)
- 09: European governments block Wall Street from selling government bonds? (0)
- 09: Intra-African trade and development (0)
- 10: Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop Sponsored by Nigerian Breweries (0)
- 12: Nigeria: Who needs a president, again (0)
- 12: Friday links #40 (0)
- 12: A Matter of Life and Death: LGBTI Rights in Uganda (0)
- 13: Dominique Strauss-Kahn on his trip to Africa (0)
- 13: 90 million litres of petroleum products disappear? (0)
- 14: Amadou & Miriam – Masiteladi (1)
- 15: A review of Brautigam’s *The Dragon’s Gift* on The China Beat (0)
- 15: On Britain’s changing spending habits (0)
- 16: Gaddafi’s advice to Nigeria (2)
- 18: African economies rebounding in 2010 – World Bank (0)
- 21: A really good analysis of the Jos crisis (1)
- 23: Should we take Gaddafi seriously? (7)
- 24: Should we take Gaddafi seriously? (cont) (1)
- 25: Afternoon music break – Maga no need pay (0)
- 25: Nigeria: Senate approves $31 bln budget for 2010 (0)
- 25: Tony Judt on the way things are and how they might be (0)
- 26: Friday Links #41 (0)
- 29: How much oil does Nigeria produce? (3)
February 2010 (34)
- 01: Monday Links #1 (0)
- 01: The Economist reviews Clint Eastwood’s Invictus (3)
- 02: Would you buy a Zuma doll? (0)
- 03: Lionel Loueke (0)
- 04: Should Nigeria Break Up? (5)
- 04: Nneka on David Letterman (0)
- 05: What is the current state of the culture in development debate? (0)
- 07: Two short stories (0)
- 08: The Social meaning of the power law (0)
- 09: Blacks in Mexico (0)
- 09: From Aljazeera: Nigeria security forces kill unarmed civilians (0)
- 10: Will Jonathan’s good luck hold out? (2)
- 11: Igbo informal enterprise and national cohesion from below (0)
- 12: Nigeria plans to issue naira-denominated bonds (0)
- 12: Nigerian Central Bank Governor discusses the state of the banking sector (0)
- 14: On liberal orthodoxy and “helpless” Africa (6)
- 15: Nigeria’s current per capita income (0)
- 16: Effects of the international drugs trade in West Africa (0)
- 17: 60 years of the Berlin International Film Festival (0)
- 18: Nigeria’s foreign debts (4)
- 18: Noon music break (2)
- 19: Niger, not Nigeria – Price of crude oil rises at the news of Niger coup (0)
- 19: Friday Links #38 (0)
- 20: Sunshine Day – Osibisa (0)
- 21: A Nigerian financial class action suit (0)
- 21: “Children and adults are different forms of Homo sapiens,” (0)
- 22: China throws birthday party for Mugabe (0)
- 23: Osibisa – The Warrior (0)
- 24: Nigerian president returns to Nigeria (2)
- 25: Of Yar’Adua, his wife, and Nigeria (5)
- 27: Mo Ibrahim on The Other, Brighter Africa (1)
- 28: George Soros on the Euro and the Greek debt problem (0)
- 28: Sound trade policy recommendation for Nigeria (0)
- 28: On the career of *Identity* (2)
January 2010 (39)
- 01: Film Review (1)
- 02: Amadou & Mariam – Sabali (2)
- 03: The mobile telephony and internet markets in Africa (0)
- 03: Underreported good news of the past decade (0)
- 04: Nigeria now on Teh List (2)
- 05: The Nigerian Stock Exchange and the banking sector (1)
- 06: The new Exportweltmeister (0)
- 07: A country that has an over-bloated impression of itself? (1)
- 08: Cash disbursement to Niger Deltans (4)
- 08: Hitler defends Nigeria (2)
- 10: China, Africa and resource-backed infrastructure loans (2)
- 12: Of Commentaries, Reactions and Over-Reactions (0)
- 12: Problems facing regional integration in West Africa (0)
- 12: Mathew Yglesias on Nigeria and violent extremism (0)
- 14: “Ethnicity INC: or why ethnicity is not the bogeyman we were told it is” (7)
- 15: Friday Links #37 (0)
- 15: Workshop Call for Papers (0)
- 16: Saturday night music (0)
- 17: In Our Time (0)
- 19: Violent conflicts and modes of identification (3)
- 21: Nigeria imposes tenure limit on bank CEOs (1)
- 22: Friday Links #38 (0)
- 22: Documentary on Hiphop in Northern Nigeria (0)
- 23: Absentee President Update: Court orders cabinet to decide on Nigerian president’s fitness (0)
- 23: Chinua Achebe on what Nigeria means to him (0)
- 23: Terry G….. Free Madness (7)
- 23: CFP: The Informal and the Formal: Contested Categories of Socio-Economic Life (0)
- 24: Thoughtful editorial on the Central Bank of Nigeria and Nigerian banks (0)
- 24: Does Nigeria really need a president? (0)
- 24: Africa – ‘dumping ground’ for fake goods? (0)
- 25: Politics and poverty responsible for Jos conflict (2)
- 26: Africa Rising (0)
- 27: Fighting corruption with a Zero Rupee note (3)
- 28: CFP: Recycling Textile Technologies (0)
- 29: Friday Links #39 (0)
- 29: Seen in Hyderabad – Save Water by getting WiMAX (0)
- 29: “Achebe makes Conrad, the man, answerable for the offensive stereotypes he promulgates as a writer” (0)
- 30: Trouble might soon hit Petrodollar-land (0)
- 31: Nigerian Internet slangs (2)
December 2009 (12)
- 01: View from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building at night (2)
- 04: Understanding the British Textile Recycling Industry (0)
- 09: Nigerian police killing at will (0)
- 09: links for 2009-12-09 (0)
- 11: links for 2009-12-11 (0)
- 21: China’s Export of Labor Faces Growing Scorn (0)
- 24: links for 2009-12-24 (0)
- 28: China’s Capitalist Revolution (0)
- 28: What the world can learn from 10 years of excesses (0)
- 30: Rejecting the Normal (0)
- 30: An Ethnography of the Nigerian Financial Sector? (1)
- 31: Berlin Underworlds (0)
November 2009 (31)
- 01: A new economics is possible (0)
- 02: CNBC Interview with Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) (0)
- 02: Nigerians in prisons abroad (0)
- 02: What is important to the Nigerian press? (0)
- 02: The Berlin Wall (0)
- 03: Meet Germany’s new Government (0)
- 03: Is a New Paradigm for Recovery in Developing Countries Emerging? (0)
- 03: Global fertility (0)
- 05: Gillian Tett on banking conferences and marriage rituals (4)
- 06: Loomnie Friday Link Love 36 (4)
- 10: Charles Taylor ‘duped’ by Nigeria (0)
- 11: Music – Rokia Traore’s Dounia (0)
- 12: links for 2009-11-11 (0)
- 13: links for 2009-11-12 (0)
- 13: “In the long run we’re all dead” (Keynes) – Keith Hart (0)
- 14: links for 2009-11-13 (0)
- 15: “The great economic revolutions are monetary in nature” (Mauss) – Keith Hart (0)
- 15: Nigerian musician Nneka on Network Africa (2)
- 16: links for 2009-11-16 (0)
- 17: links for 2009-11-17 (0)
- 18: How the fall of the Berlin Wall affected Zimbabwe (1)
- 18: Join me to enjoy Ayo’s music (2)
- 18: THE WIRE – 100 Greatest Quotes (1)
- 19: links for 2009-11-19 (0)
- 21: links for 2009-11-21 (0)
- 21: What can anthropology offer someone who wants to understand money better? (0)
- 22: African migrants and their desperate ploy for a better life (2)
- 23: links for 2009-11-23 (0)
- 24: Climate change and food – The Economist videographic (0)
- 24: Nuhu Ribadu interview on NPR’s Planet Money (0)
- 30: links for 2009-11-30 (0)
October 2009 (33)
- 04: An Ethnography of Wall Street (1)
- 04: Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations (0)
- 06: Anthropologists discuss the financial crisis (0)
- 06: Fear not, Western Oil Companies (0)
- 07: Nigeria’s stimulus package (0)
- 08: On Chasing Alpha (0)
- 08: Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story (0)
- 09: Loomnie Friday Link Love 32 (0)
- 10: My sentiments about the introduction of a dress code in Nigeria (0)
- 12: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (0)
- 14: How do you revive a country’s industrial sector? (1)
- 14: Advert Africa (0)
- 14: Daughter of Ahmadinejad advisor seeks asylum in Germany (0)
- 14: Why Email Won’t Go Obsolete (0)
- 16: Loomnie Friday Link Love 33 (0)
- 19: William Easterly on development economics (0)
- 19: Nigeria to give 10% of oil cash to Niger Delta people (0)
- 19: The Dis/Order of Things (0)
- 19: Nigeria aims to stop gas flaring (0)
- 20: And the Mo Ibrahim Africa governance prize goes to no one (1)
- 20: How is the African diaspora changing? (0)
- 21: Nigerian churches and deforestation (0)
- 21: BBC Documentary on rebranding Nigeria (1)
- 22: Blacks in Germany (3)
- 23: Loomnie Friday Link Love 34 (0)
- 23: Currently reading (0)
- 23: The Anthropology Song (0)
- 25: Migration and remittances (0)
- 26: Rich Germans demand higher taxes (0)
- 27: Nigeria signs 875 million dollar railway deal with China (0)
- 29: Germany and online journalism (0)
- 29: Nouriel Roubini on global imbalances (0)
- 30: Loomnie Friday Link Love 35 (0)
September 2009 (32)
- 01: Anthropologyworks (3)
- 04: Review of the coverage of the Nigerian banking crisis (0)
- 04: Loomnie Friday Link Love 29 (0)
- 04: Krugman on how economists got it so wrong (0)
- 05: West African countries double rice output (0)
- 05: How badly does Wall Street need new exotic investments? (0)
- 05: Hitler, 1939, the War, and whether it could have been prevented (2)
- 06: Sony PS3 ad and the Nigerian government (3)
- 07: African migrants play key role in development cooperation (0)
- 09: Web Journalism Manifesto (0)
- 10: Anthropologists blog on the financial crisis (1)
- 10: Dossier of African cinema (2)
- 10: On Corporate Greed (0)
- 10: Keith Hart on A Cosmopolitan Anthropology (0)
- 11: Loomnie Friday Link Love 30 (0)
- 12: District 9 (4)
- 16: Become a Nigerianstalk.org Contributor (0)
- 17: What to do in Denmark? (0)
- 18: BBC documentary on Obama’s mother (0)
- 18: Loomnie Friday Link Love 31 (0)
- 20: Tobin Tax (0)
- 21: My column on kids (0)
- 22: District 9 and Nigeria (again) (3)
- 25: Announcing Square One (0)
- 26: Square One (0)
- 27: Where does Europe’s waste go? (0)
- 27: How Germany’s democracy works (0)
- 27: Long road to recovery (0)
- 28: Mobile phones in Africa (1)
- 28: On methodological individualism (0)
- 29: China seeks big stake in Nigerian oil (0)
- 30: The (unintended) effect of the bank takeover in Nigeria (2)
August 2009 (25)
- 04: Ishmael Reed on Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2)
- 05: From WSJ – Nigeria’s Amnesty Program Draws Criticism (0)
- 05: Kenya becomes largest importer of used cars from Japan (0)
- 07: Loomnie Friday Link Love 25 (0)
- 09: What I am currently listening to (2)
- 10: From Chatham House – Thirst for African Oil: Asian National Oil Companies in Nigeria and Angola (2)
- 14: The 20 Best Albums of 2009… So Far (0)
- 14: More on the Land Use Act (0)
- 14: Loomnie Friday Link Love 26 (2)
- 15: Nigerian Central Bank takes control of five banks (0)
- 15: Full text of Sanusi’s speech on the sack (0)
- 15: Nigerians who fought in World War II (3)
- 15: Studying Bank Ads (0)
- 18: Joseph Nye on talking to Al-Qaida (0)
- 18: Resource Curse (again) (0)
- 21: Loomnie Friday Link Love 27 (0)
- 23: What do you eat when you are not in your country? (5)
- 24: Mohammed Yunus and de Soto (0)
- 25: David Graeber on Debt: The first five thousand years (0)
- 25: What are Free Trade Zones? (0)
- 27: Resource Cursed (0)
- 27: Paradox of Plenty (NYTimes) (0)
- 28: Loomnie Friday Link Love 28 (2)
- 30: Why is Africa Poor? (0)
- 31: Economics of Smuggling (0)
July 2009 (23)
- 03: Obama on Africa (2)
- 10: Loomnie Friday Link Love 21 (6)
- 10: Vieux Farka Toure (0)
- 12: On the lasting legacy of colonialism in Africa (0)
- 12: Text of President Barack Obama’s Speech in Ghana (6)
- 13: The Leo Africanus (4)
- 13: Wole Soyinka on Obama’s Choice (2)
- 17: Loomnie Friday Link Love 22 (0)
- 18: Aid, Education and Finance in Africa (0)
- 19: The Nigerian Government, the Amnesty and N65, 000 monthly (4)
- 19: The Smuggling Business in Nigeria (0)
- 20: Still on Smuggling (From the U.S.-African Trade Profile) (2)
- 21: A Very Brief History of VW and Porsche (4)
- 22: Someone in the Nigerian Government has been reading De Soto (2)
- 22: What about growing your skyscraper? (0)
- 24: Loomnie Friday Link Love 23 (0)
- 25: On Kind of Blue by Miles Davis (0)
- 25: Two Versions of So What (0)
- 26: A beautiful review of the coverage of Obama’s Ghana trip (0)
- 27: What happens when your country depends on a single product? (0)
- 29: Dumping of Used Electronics in Nigeria (1)
- 30: BAe Systems, Africom, and HTS (2)
- 31: Loomnie Friday Link Love 24 (0)
June 2009 (4)
- 04: Good or bad, the African university is all we have by Godwin R. Murunga (2)
- 05: Loomnie Friday Link Love 20 (0)
- 07: Anthropologically Speaking (4)
- 28: Gillian Tett on Social Anthropology and Finance (0)
May 2009 (14)
- 01: Loomnie Friday Link Love 15 (0)
- 05: What are you doing in Germany? (2)
- 05: The Leipzig School of Human Origins (0)
- 05: Savage Minds
- 08: Loomnie Friday Link Love 16 (0)
- 10: And the British Navy Saved the Natives from Themselves (14)
- 13: Fukuyama on Dead Aid (8)
- 15: Loomnie Friday Link Love 17 (0)
- 20: Some Unusual Business Cards (0)
- 22: Open Anthropology Cooperative (0)
- 22: Loomnie Friday Link Love 18 (0)
- 27: Still on Dead Aid (4)
- 28: New IMF Note on African Fiscal Policy (0)
- 29: Loomnie Friday Link Love 19 (0)
April 2009 (12)
- 02: Check out (0)
- 03: Loomnie Friday Link Love 11 (2)
- 08: Been Busy… (0)
- 10: Loomnie Friday Link Love 12 (10)
- 14: Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (8)
- 15: Yemisi Ogbe… (0)
- 17: Loomnie Friday Link Love 13 (0)
- 23: African Gangs, Cliques and Tribalist Groups (2)
- 24: Loomnie Friday Link Love 14 (0)
- 26: Check out (0)
- 28: The Nigerian Oil Industry (2)
- 29: In the Spirit of Open-Access Anthropology (1)
March 2009 (14)
- 03: The Thing Around Your Neck (4)
- 06: Loomnie Friday Link Love 7 (0)
- 06: The Beginnings of NigeriansTalk (10)
- 07: Dambisa Moyo on BBC Hardtalk (4)
- 08: Visiting a Concentration Camp (4)
- 09: Adiele Afigbo is Dead (18)
- 13: Loomnie Friday Link Love 8 (0)
- 15: signs, excuses and actor-network-theory (2)
- 16: New Review of Blog Posts on the Nigerian Economy (0)
- 20: Loomnie Friday Link Love 9 (0)
- 20: President Obama on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2)
- 23: Nigerian Guardian and Having ‘The Gay’ (0)
- 24: NigeriansTalk Turenchi (2)
- 27: Loomnie Friday Link Love 10 (0)
February 2009 (12)
- 01: The Nigerian President Takes a Vacation… (1)
- 03: Global Economic Prospects 2009 (0)
- 04: PhD Studentship Opportunity (0)
- 06: Loomnie Friday Link Love 4 (0)
- 07: National Public Radio Podcasts… And a TV Show (10)
- 13: Loomnie Friday Link Love 5 (0)
- 13: In London (6)
- 20: Loomnie Friday Link Love 6 (0)
- 20: Two Podcasts that I Gladly Recommend (0)
- 20: Credit Crisis in Moving Pictures (0)
- 22: Wouter Hamel (2)
- 25: What is the Economy? (4)
January 2009 (17)
- 04: Freakonomics on Gifting (0)
- 11: Update (0)
- 11: Linux and Me (3)
- 13: Another Post on the Nigerian Textile Industry (2)
- 16: Loomnie Friday Link Love 1 (0)
- 21: Video and Full Text of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Speech (0)
- 21: First Impressions (6)
- 23: Loomnie Friday Link Love 2 (0)
- 24: Loony Links (2)
- 25: In the UK (0)
- 25: Join the British Army (6)
- 25: Kwame Anthony Appiah on Obama (0)
- 26: What the USA Can Learn from Germany (0)
- 27: Obama’s Interview with Al Arabiya (6)
- 28: What happens to British used clothing? (4)
- 30: Loomnie Friday Link Love 3 (2)
- 30: Global recession – where did all the money go? (0)
December 2008 (7)
- 01: The Media and Reporting Violence (4)
- 09: Naomi Klein and Fundamentalist Capitalism (8)
- 15: The Lizard (12)
- 15: Seun Kuti at the Nobel Concert (2)
- 17: Trying to start writing up (4)
- 21: Why I Blog About Africa (7)
- 29: Interview with Alice Cobert (0)
November 2008 (12)
- 05: Thank you America for voting Obama (1)
- 05: Congratulations Mr President-Elect Barack Obama (6)
- 10: A New Deal? (4)
- 10: Want to see a bit of the Niger Delta? (4)
- 11: Loving George Benson and Earl Klugh (4)
- 20: Gotham City (6)
- 21: Patron-Client Relations among Igbo Migrant Traders in Cotonou (0)
- 23: State Failure and Africans (12)
- 23: Leasing African Land (2)
- 26: Lijadu Sisters (2)
- 30: An Interview with a Somali Pirate (0)
- 30: Something Close to a Tribute to Dr Orlando Owoh (4)
October 2008 (9)
- 02: Back in Germany (6)
- 07: Interested in China and Capitalism? (3)
- 10: The Wire (4)
- 23: Krugman, Social Science and Methods (2)
- 24: Detained Nigerian Blogger (8)
- 28: The Sax and Me (0)
- 29: Why is being…. (0)
- 30: The Economist Endorses Obama (0)
- 31: Free Jonathan Elendu Now! (4)
September 2008 (7)
- 04: Some Trade Policy-Related Papers (0)
- 06: Project Syndicate (8)
- 13: Dani Rodrik on Export Led Growth (2)
- 15: Update (0)
- 20: On Being Native and Getting Co-opted (4)
- 21: A New Blog (4)
- 29: Up To Speed (2)
August 2008 (11)
- 01: The Economist on Cultism in Nigerian Unis (4)
- 03: Nigerian National Archives (14)
- 04: Athletics, Doping and Fairness (4)
- 06: Doha Rounds: What is to cry for? (0)
- 08: Of Stereotypes, Nigerian Igbo and Beninese Yoruba (2)
- 12: Mark MacKinnon on Mikhail Saakashvili (0)
- 12: Fola, A Short Story (5)
- 22: The State of Nigerian Banks (0)
- 22: Discovering 9ice (2)
- 26: Beautiful Africa 9th Edition (2)
- 26: Mobile Telephony and SMEs (0)
July 2008 (16)
- 02: Igbo Migration…. and Apprenticeship (0)
- 03: China and Textile Again (0)
- 04: At My Bank on Tuesday. (0)
- 04: Budget of the UN Specialised Organs (0)
- 07: Thoughts on Migration and Identity (0)
- 09: Third European Conference on African Studies (0)
- 09: CFP: Third European Conference on African Studies (0)
- 09: Yaradua and Stolen Crude Oil (36)
- 10: More about Stolen Oil (2)
- 14: Flashes of the Immediate (Nigerian) Past at Stuttgart Museum (0)
- 15: On Subsidising Diesel Consumption (3)
- 15: Posting with ScribeFire (3)
- 19: Feeling Good (4)
- 21: Actor-Network Theory in the Blogosphere (6)
- 23: The Importance of Being Laughable (0)
- 24: Script of Senator Obama’s Berlin Speech (2)
June 2008 (9)
- 02: Update to the Blog (4)
- 04: I just had a motorcycle accident (11)
- 05: Freshlyground (2)
- 06: This Blog Supports Barack Obama (3)
- 11: History Month (0)
- 11: Yoruba and English, Yoruba and French (24)
- 11: Lamidi Adedibu is Dead (9)
- 12: Hotel CaliFacebook (12)
- 24: Beautiful Africa 8th edition (4)
May 2008 (8)
- 12: A Talk on Blogging (20)
- 14: Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Journalism (2008) (8)
- 18: Myanmar and the Responsibility to Protect (14)
- 21: Fieldwork (6)
- 22: UEFA Championship Finals in Cotonou (2)
- 23: Mein Kampf, and Assorted Thoughts about Deutschland (4)
- 27: Tagged – 6 Quirky Things about Me (10)
- 28: What is an Anthropologist Doing with Trade Policy (2)
April 2008 (5)
- 02: Trying to Understand the Nigerian Oil Industry (1)
- 07: Age Limit for Imported Buses and Trucks (17)
- 13: Rethinking Global Health Priorities: HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Basic Health Services (1)
- 29: Investing in Nigeria (0)
- 29: Josef Fritzl and Bowling Alone (16)
March 2008 (10)
- 05: Trade Policies, ECOWAS and Ecobank (4)
- 06: Katie Melua’s Nine Million Bicycles (2)
- 07: Eldis Entries on Trade Policies (0)
- 08: Ilorin National Museum on a Saturday (6)
- 13: The Nigerian Textile Industry and Cheap Chinese Products (40)
- 17: Introducing Myself (0)
- 18: Transcript and Video of Senator Barack Obama’s Philadelphia Speech (6)
- 26: “The Economic And Political Effects Of The CFA Zone” from Ocnus.net (13)
- 26: Fourty Percent of Afghan Aid Spent on Expats (2)
- 30: For Zimbabwe (2)
February 2008 (4)
- 10: Is it True… (0)
- 16: Blogging Busy (0)
- 20: On Wife Bashing (14)
- 22: Re-Visiting Asa (4)
January 2008 (6)
- 01: Leaving Things Behind (0)
- 09: Now in Cotonou (2)
- 13: E-Waste, Toxins and Cancer in Africa, any Clue? (6)
- 17: Nigerians are the Americans of Africa (7)
- 26: Crossing the Sahara and Heading for Europe (0)
- 27: Caroline Kennedy on Barack Obama (2)
December 2007 (6)
- 05: My Whereabouts (0)
- 10: Plus Ça ne Change pas (4)
- 15: Of Traditional Yoruba Religious System and Tolerance (8)
- 18: Unwanted Babies (4)
- 20: A Man, His Wife, and His Girlfriend (2)
- 28: Nuhu Ribadu, Okiro and a Policy Course (14)
November 2007 (12)
- 05: Cyprian Ekwensi is Dead (4)
- 07: Hitler on Drugs (2)
- 10: Today in Nigerian History: Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Execution (4)
- 11: Today at Home, Exploring Blogs (2)
- 12: Development and ‘The African Culture’ (8)
- 14: AFRICOM on AfricanLoft (2)
- 15: Asa’s Fire on the Mountain, Jailer and Other Songs (43)
- 18: Help Needed… What is the Comparative Advantage of Africa? (28)
- 21: Resource Curse (6)
- 22: Taxing Copper in Zambia (12)
- 28: A New Book on China and Africa (4)
- 28: Page on Podcasts (0)
October 2007 (7)
- 01: Of Lennon’s Cover Album, Band Aid, and Fatigues (0)
- 04: Of Dariye, EFCC and British Authorities (4)
- 11: Moving to Stuttgart (6)
- 13: Sarah Chang’s Carmen Fantasy (2)
- 29: BBC Podcasts: Alan Johnston; Alan Greenspan (0)
- 29: China and Africa (8)
- 31: Eric Clapton: Tears in Heaven (16)
September 2007 (4)
- 06: On Amy Winehouse and Self-Destructing (4)
- 08: Resources and Aid, any Similarities? (2)
- 13: Eldis Newsfeed (2)
- 14: Beautiful Africa Carnival 4th Edition (2)
August 2007 (10)
- 02: The Informal Sector in Africa (4)
- 02: Olorioko….. Infinity (8)
- 08: Nigeria as a Black Superpower? (2)
- 08: On Vacation… (6)
- 13: Beautiful Africa Blog Carnival (0)
- 13: Nicolas Sarkozy on Africa (2)
- 15: Respect (8)
- 15: Restructuring the Naira (0)
- 17: Nigeria’s Movie Industry (Nollywood), Quality or Quantity? (6)
- 28: Of Spider Pig and Random Stupid Things. (0)
July 2007 (7)
- 03: Tinariwen (12)
- 08: Freshlyground (6)
- 10: Ishtar Interviews Loomnie (14)
- 17: Nneka… Victim of Truth (4)
- 17: On Second Thought…Nneka’s The Uncomfortable Truth (0)
- 23: On Music and Musical Influences… Szavanna Interviews Loomnie (7)
- 26: Miles Davis and John Coltrane…. So What (2)
June 2007 (11)
- 01: Threatening Emails (2)
- 02: Jeff Koinange (With Update) (28)
- 10: Emptiness (2)
- 11: Ousmane Sembène is Dead (2)
- 14: Beyoncé (2)
- 16: Berlin, Letters From Iwo Jima (2)
- 21: Owuro Lojo (6)
- 22: Fatai Rolling Dollar (6)
- 25: Bongos Ikwue (14)
- 27: Ali Farka Toure (Noch Mehr Über Musik!) (2)
- 28: Nigerien Music (12)
May 2007 (11)
- 02: Amadou et Miriam Bagayoko (2)
- 03: Nigerian elections, according to the Economist (0)
- 07: Ruining Bikes and Feeling like S**t (2)
- 08: Campaign for Hiasl (2)
- 11: Why God never got a PhD (4)
- 12: What Thinking Can Do To You (2)
- 12: Of Zwertboek, Germans and the War (8)
- 18: African Queen (10)
- 25: Out of Circulation (4)
- 28: Nudist Beach (14)
- 30: Yar’Adua’s Inaugural Speech (28)
April 2007 (11)
- 15: Been off again (2)
- 15: Lagbaja Skentele (0)
- 15: Some other Lagbajas (2)
- 15: Elections (0)
- 16: Blogging (0)
- 17: Elections and Results (6)
- 18: Costume Party (2)
- 22: Another Year (0)
- 27: Uncle Ben’s Promotion (0)
- 30: Do I even think I am blogging? (2)
- 30: Trip to Amsterdam, Maastricht (0)
March 2007 (2)
- 11: Another week begins (0)
- 19: My People on HardTalk (0)
January 2007 (3)
- 22: Happy New Year! (2)
- 27: On Friendship (2)
- 28: Shakespeare (0)
November 2006 (1)
- 03: Now in Germany (0)
October 2006 (3)
- 06: Latest Developments (2)
- 06: The Terminal Band (2)
- 27: Getting ready to move to Germany (2)
June 2006 (1)
- 29: Burial (0)
May 2006 (1)
- 05: Applying for a PhD Programme (2)
April 2006 (2)
- 18: Lost My Grandmother (0)
- 22: Another Year, Again (0)
March 2006 (2)
- 06: The Interview (0)
- 16: How to Behave When You Don’t Get a Job You Thought You Were Going To Get (4)
February 2006 (2)
- 24: Of Jobs and Satellites (2)
- 28: Another Job Interview (0)
May 2005 (1)
- 31: Ruminations on steps (4)