London: On the tube from Heathrow my neighbors looked at me peculiarly on the subway as I pointed out a huge rainbow that could be seen simply by looking out the window. After the dry weather during most of my time in Africa, the dark clouds and touches of rain seemed very London, and at the …
Month: October 2004
One Night In Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam: It had been a long day in the city. I had run to the Indian Ocean at dawn, so that I could say that in one year I had run on both sides of that body of water with Mumbai, India on the east and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on the east. Even …
The Anti-Privatization Forum
Johannesburg: Imagine how difficult this is to get right – we are in a foreign country, everyone uses a triple-grip power handshake of sorts, the South African Communist Party is in a tri-part alliance with the ruling party and labor, yet they have embraced neo-liberalism and the Washington consensus including privatization and the whole package, and …