July 30, 2009
Yesterday I went mountain gorilla tracking in Volcanoes National Park in the Virungas. Unlike the elusive chimpanzees I tracked a few days ago in Nyungwe Forest, visitors are able to get very close to the animals. Several habituated groups exist, Read more…
July 28, 2009
Today, The Daily Beast announced a joint venture with Perseus Book Group, with Tina Brown noting that there is “a gap between online writing and full-length books that [is] no longer being fully met by a dwindling market for magazines.” Read more…
Today I crossed the border from Gisenyi on Lake Kivu into Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the first sights I saw were large UN and Red Cross vehicles. The Indian Army, via the UN, was out Read more…
July 25, 2009
In Rwanda, everyone walks. They walk to school, they walk to work, they walk to the well to refill their plastic yellow jugs, they walk to the market, they walk to the fields. In hours of driving through urban and Read more…
July 23, 2009
Yesterday I visited the Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali. I had heard much about the disturbing videos they show, of the rooms full of pictures of the dead, of the skulls and bones in glass cases. However, the most chilling Read more…
July 21, 2009
Today I was awoken by a symphony of birds chirping, I couldn’t make out how many but while I was sitting in a tiny restaurant garden eating lunch I counted no less than 8 different types of birds (and a Read more…
July 20, 2009
Just arrived a couple hours ago in Kigali, Rwanda. It’s my first time back in Africa since 1999, when I lived in Dar es Salaam for a summer training women entrepreneurs. As soon as I disembarked from the plane and Read more…
July 9, 2009
In my years in and out of New York City, I have never been more bullish on the entrepreneurial climate in the technology sector here than I am now. Before I get responses detailing the myriad of challenges the city Read more…
July 2, 2009
A year ago, I registered this domain with the intent of starting a blog but life intervened and I never got around to it. Back then I don’t think any of us could have envisioned the different reality we live Read more…
July 1, 2009
While in Rwanda, I went on long drives, for it’s the only way to see this beautiful country. Some roads are paved but many are not — one day, it took us 10 hours to travel a little over 200 Read more…