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		<title>Africa&#8217;s football crown to be won by mediocre players</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/africas-football-crown-to-be-won-by-mediocre-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The football champions of Africa will be crowned tomorrow as the Democratic Republic of Congo’s TP Mazembe take on Heartland of Nigeria in the final of the African Champions League. But what should be a showcase of the best football Africa has to offer will serve only as a reminder of the challenges the sport [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=491&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate PR</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/pirate-pr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No story about Somali pirates is complete without a suitably bloodcurdling quote from a cutlass-wielding Jack Sparrow wannabe. Luckily for journalists there are plenty of Somalis willing to pretend to be pirates  spokesmen for us to choose from.
Following the kidnapping of Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple sailing from Seychelles to Tanzania, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=482&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rebranding Somalia</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/rebranding-somalia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[k'naan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/?p=479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somalia doesn&#8217;t get a very good press. If it&#8217;s not war, it&#8217;s pirates. And if it&#8217;s not pirates, it&#8217;s a weird story about a 112 year-old man marrying a 17-year-old girl:
Ahmed Muhamed Dhore – who says he was born in 1897, the year that Queen Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee – already has 13 children by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=479&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monocolumn: The bad boys&#8217; club</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/monocolumn-the-bad-boys-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[monocle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guinea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following the massacre of more than 150 pro-democracy protestors in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, last month African leaders in the region wanted to send a message. The leader of Guinea’s junta, Moussa Dadis Camara, needed to be told that he couldn’t just take power by force, suppress the population and stand in elections run by his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=476&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting the messenger, ignoring the message</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/shooting-the-messenger-ignoring-the-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kofi annan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another week, another Africa blog row. This one was set off rather innocently by Shashank Bengali who pointed out a poster for the upcoming disaster movie, 2012.

He wrote:
&#8220;An American friend saw this poster in the lobby and said: &#8220;Hey, a movie about the next Kenyan election!&#8221;
I laughed. Our three Kenyan friends didn&#8217;t.
The comments started off supportive but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=469&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics, protests and pop music</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/politics-protests-and-pop-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mtv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kofi annan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wyclef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luis moreno-ocampo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya is welcoming a procession of international visitors this month that indicate both the depths it has fallen to and the heights it could once again reach.
Kofi Annan arrived at the start of the month to gently remind Kenya’s president, Mwai Kibaki, and prime minister, Raila Odinga, that they still haven’t reformed Kenya’s constitution, electoral [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=461&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The perfect traffic jam</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/the-perfect-traffic-jam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of refusing to follow the rules of the road.
As frustrating as traffic jams are, you have to admire the beauty of the &#8216;Nairobi special&#8217;.
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		<title>Made it</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/made-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writers won&#8217;t believe they have made it until they get commissioned by the New Yorker or Rolling Stone.
If you&#8217;re a blogger who writes about human rights or development issues then you haven&#8217;t made it until Wronging Rights say something nice about you or ask you to write a guest post.
I&#8217;m still waiting for the call [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=448&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An entirely avoidable argument with Rob Crilly</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/an-entirely-avoidable-argument-with-rob-crilly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/?p=441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Crilly has a bee in his bonnet about a story I wrote on Darfur in July 2007.
In response to the Abu Sharati saga on Wronging Rights he wrote:
&#8220;[Steve] has reported on &#8220;reports&#8221; that &#8220;foreign&#8221; Arabs moved into land once home to African tribes two years ago. There was no independent verification of those reports [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&blog=5153208&post=441&subd=thingsseenandheard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting books about football in Africa from the scourge of &#8220;enemy action&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/protecting-books-about-football-in-africa-from-the-scourge-of-enemy-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m signing my book contract today. It should have been sorted several months ago but&#8230; I won&#8217;t bore you with the details.
Anyway, this line caught my eye:
&#8220;No royalties shall be paid on copies destroyed by fire, water, enemy action, in transit or otherwise.&#8221;
It doesn&#8217;t say whether the enemy is a rival publisher or Al-Qa&#8217;ida.
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