Into Africa?

Jason and his three year old son Joshua (or Ua as his Uncle Eric calls him). Jason and I have been friends since we were just a bit older than Joshua. Joshua dangled his legs off the side of the boat to provide extra propulsion to get us back to shore as our little yellow raft began to deflate!

I'm slowly getting around to putting together a good reading list to help get a sense of what "Africa" means these days. One book that sounds very good was written by a African-American woman that was a correspondent for the News Hour for twenty years and is now living in South Africa as the Chief Africa Correspondent for NPR. The book is called New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance by Charlayne Hunter-Gault. I just bought The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs. Kirubi citied this book numerous times in a debate on Africa at the International House at UC Berkeley. He blew me away with his passion and ability to argue for what sort of Development Africa needs today.

The NYTimes today had this interesting article in the Fashion and Style section called "Into Africa" it is a quick analysis of what Africa might mean to Americans.

Katie and ten-month old Caleb at Kaibab Lake near Williams. Joshua has already started introducing Caleb as his little brother.