Malawi’s national addiction
“There’s no food if there’s no nsima.” Or so I learned from a former colleague as he stared disapprovingly at my grilled cheese sandwich over lunch one day. The heavy white porridge of maize flour is...
View ArticleGutter gardens: MH-37’s toxic run-off
Accra’s Military Hospital No. 37, was built during the Second World War and it’s obsolescence is becoming evident. About a year ago, the pipe carrying raw medical waste from the mortuary, maternity and...
View Article“Meating” halfway – The growing importance of soy in Malawi
Skewered meat sizzles on kickstand grills along the main M1 highway, a whole pig is slaughtered in an open-air butcher’s market shack, a farmer herds wealth-representative cattle down a maize-sidled...
View ArticleConflict in Côte d’Ivoire keeps Liberians hungry
Joseph Tahyor recalled one day last August when he and some 600 other residents of B’hai Jozon were asked to leave their homes. Men, women, and children, set out first-thing in the morning, and...
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