Anacostia, The Death and Life of an American River (A book review)
This recent article on the spike of violence in Southeast Washington D.C. made me think of the book I recently read, Anacostia, The Death and Life of an ...
Tag: Reflections
Two and a half years in Africa, Part 2
This is the second in a series of blog posts (here’s the first blog) describing my involvement and experiences working in the field of Information Communi...
Mwananyamala
I often wonder how places get their names. My interest was rekindled while I was working in Kwale, a rural area in the south-eastern most tip of Kenya, where I ...
Doing the other 90% in Kibera
A lot of ink has been spilled writing about how technology is only 10% and all the other stuff you have to do to make the project successful is 90%. These two p...
Why Map Open Drainage? And How?
I believe that the reasons to map open drainage in the slums are well known and are obvious to most people. Everyone who’s ever been to the slums knows that ope...