Tag Archives: africa
My March 2010 In Books
Here’s what March 2010 looked like for me reading-wise: Jackie McMullen w/ Larry Bird & Magic Johnson “When the Game was Ours” : I’m a sucker for 80s hoops stories. The sports media reported on all the big “reveals” before … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, africa, history, literature
“The Other” By Ryszard Kapuscinski
I’m usually a bit wary of the “lecture repackaged as book” genre. For the most part, we readers are simply missing too much information, as these lectures were never intended to stand on their own (although I suppose that in … Continue reading
Eleven Pages of Acronyms!
I’m reading Gerard Prunier’s “Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the making of a Continental Catastrophe“, and have to point out that he lists 11 pages of acronyms of various factions, groups, and agencies in the introduction.
