Martin Walsh: East African Notes and Records

Martin Walsh's blog on East African history, culture, and ethnography is an unusual combination of travelogue, self-reflection, and quirky topics from frogs to circumcision cycles. What I really like about Martin's blog is how he is using the web to talk about and publicize his academic work. You can read his papers on Scribd, you can see his publications, and he has apparently even scanned and posted his research notebooks. I like this commitment to "open source academia", if you will. Check him out at East African Notes and Records

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"Where the Middle East Meets Africa"

My friend and colleague W.H. Marsh has been penning some interesting stuff on his blog "Where the Middle East Meets Africa" He is currently doing a Fulbright in Cairo and has a lot of interesting insights about race, culture and politics there.

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Great Blog About Politics in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

My friend and colleague Alex writes about contemporary politics in Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia and Somalia, to name a few. If you are looking to up your game as far as African politics go, his site is a great resource.

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