Tag: sub-Saharan Africa

• We will build a wall…

  It’s humbling to realize that, despite my age, there are still some things I’ve never heard of. Or, is it because of my age…? I suppose I could be forgiven for being unaware –I almost said uninterested– in things that trend nowadays, the inference being that, lacking in statistical significance, those things which appeal to […]

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  March 28, 2018

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  African Monsoon, African Union, Afrrica, boundaries, Burkina Faso, Chris Reiij, climatic oscillations, desertification, drought, edges, Faidherbia albida, Garrity, Global Environmental Facility, Great Green Wall, Great Green Wall Initiative, Holocene epoch, Jessica Tierney, Khalil Gibran, Mohamed Bakaar, Niger, Richard Sr. Barbe Baker, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Science Advances, Serving in Mission, Smithsonian Magazine, sub-Saharan Africa, the Sahel, Tony Rinaudo, trees, trending, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, University of Arizona, World Bank, World Resources Institute

• An Even More Modest Proposal

  How many of you remember being presented with Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ in English 101? It was a not so subtle satire of 18th century British treatment of the Irish, in which he hyperbolically –and anonymously- suggested that the Irish might be able to ease their economic distress by selling their children for food […]

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  March 8, 2017

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  accessibility of health care, barefoot doctors, Canadian health care, cultural safety, Emergency care, health care, Jonathan Swift, non-professional help, PBS, Social Service, sub-Saharan Africa, volunteer community health workers