Haroon's devlog

Chiwetel Ejiofor is a remarkable actor, and a sure-fire Academy Award winner, for his historically-unprecedented acting in 12 Years a Slave...

I have not offered any personal reflections on the death of Nelson Mandela last week, in part because, like so many people around the w...

An excellent infographic on the best and worst development performance in Africa:

An excellent perspective of the food crisis in the Sahel from expatriate Africans from the region living in New York. Perspective is everyt...

 The International Land Coalition has created a new website that compiles data about large-scale land deals around the world.  It is quite a...

An excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Mali: Followed by an excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Uganda:

An excellent analysis of mobile money transfer that pours cold water on the way that it is perceived by the global development institutions:...

An excellent article by Binyavanga Wainaina originally published in Granta 92 that challenges us to rethink our assumptions. Page 1 | How t...

I have admired Bob Geldof for a long time. Here, in answering why 2 white men should presume to speak for Africa, he offers a spot-on answe...