Why web crash sounds like tumbling cow in west Africa

Colin Baker September 16, 2016

In my first story for BBC's Tech Tent, I speak with the west African coders who are translating the tens of thousands of words in operating systems for phones and web browsers into very local languages (spoken by tens of millions)

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September 25, 2016

Faith’s archivists (Long read, The Economist)

September 25, 2016

THE secret evacuations began at night. Ancient books were packed in small metal shoe-lockers and loaded three or four to a car to reduce the danger to the driver and minimise possible losses. The manuscript-traffickers passed through the checkpoints of their Islamist occupiers on the journey south across the desert from Timbuktu to Bamako. Later, when that road was blocked, they transported their cargo down the Niger river by canoe.

September 25, 2016

April 16, 2016

In memoriam: Malick Sidibe (The Economist)

April 16, 2016

The door is open at Malick Sidibe’s studio, and all are welcome. Fine dress is required; accessories are encouraged. Mr Sidibe ran a photography studio in Bamako, Mali for 30 years before he became known internationally.

Mr Sidibe ran a photography studio in Bamako, Mali for 30 years before he became known internationally. For a few francs, he shot portraits of Malians in a country imagining itself anew. He produced thousands of images, snapping people playing, swimming and dancing, often men and women mid-swing on the dance floor. Malick Sidibe died on April 15th, aged 80.

April 16, 2016