{"id":117,"date":"2003-07-28T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/africa_blog\/"},"modified":"2003-07-28T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T20:33:12","slug":"africa_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/africa_blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you with an interest in Africa may want to check out the budding Africa Blog<\/a>. Its welcome message<\/a> tells you its mission: “… we hope to create a different kind of blog. Instead of simply picking apart policies and pointing to problems, we hope to offer new views that lead to solutions<\/i> to these problems.”<\/p>\n

Found via mi hermano mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you with an interest in Africa may want to check out the budding Africa Blog. Its welcome message tells you its mission: “… we hope to create a different kind of blog. Instead of simply picking apart policies and pointing to problems, we hope to offer new views that lead to solutions to… Continue reading Africa Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":387,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/05\/mississippi_in_africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":117,"position":0},"title":"Mississippi in Africa","date":"September 5, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another book that caught my eye. I saw 'Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today' in a book store yesterday. After a quick glance I knew I had to read it. (There are NEW copies available in Amazon's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":162,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/why_humans_have_no_fur\/","url_meta":{"origin":117,"position":1},"title":"Why Humans Have No Fur","date":"August 20, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The New York Times has an interesting article which theorizes on how and why humans lost their fur. The article covers how dark skin evolved: Three years ago Dr. Rosalind Harding of Oxford University and others made a worldwide study of the MC1R gene by extracting it from blood samples\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Current Events"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":323,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/12\/a_bitch_is_a_bitch\/","url_meta":{"origin":117,"position":2},"title":"A Bitch is a Bitch","date":"May 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"While scanning though the posts over at WizBang this morning I came a cross this post about the beheading of Nick Berg: Nick Berg: Who's to blame? 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