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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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How Big Tech and Right-Wing Governments Are Making You an Inmate, Not a Citizen

In the late 1940s, the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was strolling after dinner one evening with a friend to a bus stop in the…

Jun 10

How Big Tech and Right-Wing Governments Are Making You an Inmate, Not a Citizen

Jun 10

The Left’s Bizarre Hero Worship of Despots

A couple of days ago, I discovered — what to me, at least — was an outrageous post on X (formerly Twitter). It offered photos from Iran…

Jun 3

The Left’s Bizarre Hero Worship of Despots

Jun 3

BBC’s Phony “Us Vs. Them” Game

USAID is not a saintly organization, and Voice of America is and always has been a propaganda network

May 20

BBC’s Phony “Us Vs. Them” Game

May 20

How American Journalism Sells a Phony Dream to Young Professionals

I’m tunneling these days through Graydon Carter’s memoir, When the Going Was Good. If you blink and skip the title page, you’ll miss that…

May 15

How American Journalism Sells a Phony Dream to Young Professionals

May 15

Trump Opponents Fight Like They’re Facing 1968 Nixon When They’re Dealing With 1934 Hitler — Why…

Lessons from a Reluctant Activist

Apr 21

Trump Opponents Fight Like They’re Facing 1968 Nixon When They’re Dealing With 1934 Hitler — Why…

Apr 21

Art for Ethiopia’s Sake: A Poster for Fano

Today, I posted on social media this composition of mine, shown above, done in charcoal, conté, ordinary pencil, and colored pencils. I…

Apr 17

Art for Ethiopia’s Sake: A Poster for Fano

Apr 17

The “nice white girl victim” stories are topping reportage of ICE nightmares but they miss the…

Today, I woke up to a horrific story in the Guardian about young British citizen Rebecca Burke, a graphic artist who simply wanted to…

Apr 6

The “nice white girl victim” stories are topping reportage of ICE nightmares but they miss the…

Apr 6

Bread Knives to a Gunfight: How there’s no real American opposition and things are worse than you…

I have been doom-researching lately. Other folks may prefer doomscrolling, and I do my share of that, too, but I also engage in…

Mar 31

Bread Knives to a Gunfight: How there’s no real American opposition and things are worse than you…

Mar 31

My Speech to the Save Ethiopia Forum

Ethiopian diaspora organizations should be rushing to learn — to especially learn what’s worked and what hasn’t with the Palestinians and…

Mar 29

My Speech to the Save Ethiopia Forum

Mar 29

Brigade Nhamedu: Its predatory violence against Eritreans and its Western media accomplices

To Brigade Nhamedu: “I hate what you stand for, which is an outright perversion of the idea of standing up to power. Because you don’t…

Mar 27

Brigade Nhamedu: Its predatory violence against Eritreans and its Western media accomplices

Mar 27

Jeff Pearce

Jeff Pearce

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

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