The line between genius and madness is very thin.

Becoming a major player in DRC, too

Mining giant BHP proposes buyout of Anglo American.

bbc.com/news/articles/…

Gécamines, the Congolese state-owned mining giant, has signed a major contract with a prominent US lobbying firm to improve an image tarnished by governance issues under the management of former chairman Albert Yuma. By Julian Pecquet theafricareport.com/345538/drcs-ge…

VIDÉO : Le 23 avril 2004, c'était la dernière remontée de la mine de la Houve à Creutzwald en Moselle. L'histoire des mineurs de fond venait de tourner une page.

New from #JamesCurrey publishing next month! Party Politics and Populism in #Zambia from Sishuwa Sishuwa in available to pre-order > buff.ly/4b1E0gg

Not a book I expected to see in the ship's library.

I’m filling out a medical form online and I’m curious who’s out there speaking Old English.

making academics feel better about their books sales tho, silver lining

The power of Korean pop music …encouraging Hyundai to dump a deal with coal fired aluminium producer Adaro Minerals in Indonesia.

Makes me wonder what Taylor Swift fans could do …

Today in enticing proposals: write content for the successful for-profit publication Times Higher Education, and in return they will give you... a byline!

Not just any byline, mind: a *full* byline. Which is reassuring: half-bylines just don't pay the rent these days.

A better photographer than me might have been able to make something more of the industrial port structures emerging from the gloom.

First thing I saw upon disembarking in Walvis Bay in Namibia was a huge truck with 'Rössing Uranium' on the side. A reminder that tourism is not the main business here.