I’m a big believer in Karma. Not Karma like, ‘if I behave well this time around there’s less of a chance that I’ll reincarnate as a male praying mantiss next time.’ No, my version of karma goes something like this: good begets good. The nitpickier of you might be raising the red flag – ‘but [...]

After a steady stream of phone-tag, Abramz and I finally found each other at Antonio’s – the closest thing I’ve seen to a local restaurant chain in East Africa. Sporting a hoodie, t-shirt, and baggie pants, I couldn’t help but feel immediately comfortable. It felt much more like talking to an old friend from Southern [...]

On page 27 of this week’s The Weekly Observer, John Vianney Nsimbe’s “Street Talk” section puts forth the following question to what is supposedly a randomly selected group of Kampala pedestrians: Should gays have freedom of existence? Having spent the last year of my life in a region where it often seems like there are [...]

Greetings from Kampala. I’m feeling a little internet overwhelmed these days with a bulging-at-the-seams inbox, an underwhelming outbox, a to-do list longer (and less comprehensible) than the Bahagavad Gita, and a travel/speaking itinerary that would make me look like someone important if only I were. So here I am at Cafe PAP thanks to the [...]

It’s been a tellingly long time since I’ve talked about elation. You never know when this feeling will creep up, but here it is: euphoria, rapture, exhilaration, glee. Kurt Vonnegut’s uncle used to lament the fact that we so rarely take time to notice the good times. I forget his exact words to commemorate a [...]

I’m in Bali right now and if it were not for all the work I have to do in the next week I’d be bloody bored. You can imagine the reactions I get when I tell people I’m bored in Bali. “Oh, poor baby, having to suffer by the beach in Bali.” To tell you [...]

You can look through past digests of Global Voices’ content here. You can subscribe to nightly digests via email here. Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome “You hear a lot about Iraq in the news,” writes Salam Adil; “about military surges and oil laws, benchmarks and statistics, political disagreements and security. There is a whole maze [...]