Nigeria 
WaPo’s Social Media Guidelines: Bad News for International Media Development(2)
WaPo’s social media guidelines very clearly place tremendous constraints on the ability for its journalists to truly engage people through social media, because they will not be able to use them in an engaging way.
Lagos, The Next Door Neighbor You Haven’t Met
Shopping malls. Landrovers. Imported wine. Gucci-wearing clubbers. Four-hundred-dollar-a-night hotels. This is Lagos. Four-hour traffic jams. Guys selling clocks and toilet seats on expressways. Soot-covered beggars. Daylight car-jackings in Lagos Island. This is also Lagos.
Nigeria: A Tale of Two Fridays
Our first Friday in Lagos was a tale of two days for us. We’d scheduled a pickup with Adaure’s (the woman we were staying with) driver, Gabriel, for 8am to take us to Silverbird. But when he didn’t show, I started to get nervous. When 8:30am hit, action was needed, so I began texting Adaure and Gabriel-I didn’t have the money on my phone to actually call.
Nigeria Blog: Electric Power to the People
Author’s Note: This is part of a series of blog posts from my research in Nigeria.
The power situation in Lagos just adds to the charm. At any moment, the power can go out. Bam! Darkness. It’s like taking a bite of something containing a sizable pocket of pepper, a spicy burst of unexpected flavor. And [...]