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The Gifts of African: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World

The Gifts of African: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World

A book on the amazing intellectual legacy that Africa has given the world, profiling its creators, thinkers and innovators.

2022

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Jeff Pearce

Gondar’s Grief: People are “waiting for their turn to come to be killed”

A two-year-old is an amazing little creature. Your own child or maybe your niece or nephew, doesn’t matter — you can watch that happy…

Sep 3

Gondar’s Grief: People are “waiting for their turn to come to be killed”

Sep 3

Jeff Pearce

The White Savior’s Job Audition: Why “Rasmus the Clown” needs to go back in his box and leave…

Social media can be a dumpster fire. It can be cruel but every so often, it’s just. In his cringingly obvious efforts to gain attention at…

Aug 27

The White Savior’s Job Audition: Why “Rasmus the Clown” needs to go back in his box and leave…

Aug 27

Jeff Pearce

Yes, AI is Dangerous — Because of the Corporate Humans Behind It. And It Could Get Much Worse.

Whether you realize it or not, the oligarchies of the West and powers that be are working hard to take away the last right that we can…

Jul 25

Yes, AI is Dangerous — Because of the Corporate Humans Behind It. And It Could Get Much Worse.

Jul 25

Jeff Pearce

Being Brave With Others’ Money and Faces

A charity pushing into Africa tried to recruit me. I poked around to learn what it was up to. The results were disturbing.

Jul 12

Being Brave With Others’ Money and Faces

Jul 12

Jeff Pearce

Tom Gardner’s Africa Alzheimer’s

I am fairly sure I’m at least 20 years older than Tom Gardner, give or take a couple of years, but I’m sorry to report that The Economist’s…

Jun 20

Tom Gardner’s Africa Alzheimer’s

Jun 20

Jeff Pearce

The Hyena War

Ethiopia, Tigray, and the Media Lies That Fueled a Conflict

Jun 18

The Hyena War

Jun 18

Jeff Pearce

Time to End the Corporate Slavery of Social Media Policies

I’m busy looking for a job, since relying on book royalties and churning out occasional freelance work hardly keeps me in frozen lasagnas…

Jun 5

Time to End the Corporate Slavery of Social Media Policies

Jun 5

Jeff Pearce

The New Tigray Follies

Mr. Magical Mystery Map Returns! And This Time He’s Got a Witness… Or Maybe Not.

May 29

The New Tigray Follies

May 29

Jeff Pearce

The Time to Help the Amhara is NOW

It is a rain-soaked, early afternoon in Toronto, and I am thousands of miles away from a people whom the world has conveniently forgotten…

May 26

The Time to Help the Amhara is NOW

May 26

Jeff Pearce

America’s reporting on Palestine has always been biased

From a riot during the British Mandate to Martha Gellhorn’s smears of refugees, American coverage has never been fair

Apr 25

America’s reporting on Palestine has always been biased

Apr 25

Jeff Pearce

Jeff Pearce

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Writer person. Books - Prevail, The Karma Booth, Gangs in Canada; in June 2021, Winged Bull, a bio of Henry Layard, the Victorian era’s Indiana Jones.

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