"The Twittersphere is an odd and uncanny place. It’s something like having fairies at the bottom of your garden. How do you know anyone is who he/she says he is, especially when they put up pictures of themselves that might be their feet, or a cat, or a Mardi Gras mask, or a tin of Spam?"

A good starting place for the 2008 Africa Reading Challenge

op-ed on Kenya by the author of The Zanzibar Chest