by Laura Seay | Jun 21, 2010 | Opinion
The first research I ever did on African politics was about oil in the Niger Delta. I was 18, a freshman in college, and completely naive about a lot of things. Everything I knew about Big Oil came from my dad’s stories about my grandfather, who worked in the...
by Laura Seay | May 13, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series on providing humanitarian relief to Africa. I’ve been trying to sketch an outline of how Westerners tend to develop and characterize our relationship with Africa and the people who live there,...
by Laura Seay | May 12, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part series on providing humanitarian relief to Africa. If we are to move away from the savior mode into an empowerment paradigm when it comes to assistance to Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, what...
by Laura Seay | Feb 7, 2010 | Opinion
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is writing again about the Democratic Republic of Congo, based on his brief trip there. In his column titled “Orphaned, Raped and Ignored,” he wrote, “Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake...
by Laura Seay | Nov 18, 2009 | Opinion
If you’re in the United States, you no doubt noticed that Nov. 10 marked the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of “Sesame Street.” Memories of watching this public broadcast program as children is something that almost all Americans have in...
