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From GRANTA.Having lived in Cape Town for a good 3.5 years, I still miss the big skies and luscious red sunsets.————————original at: http://www.granta.com/extracts/2615′How to write about Africa’Binyavanga Wainainasome tips: sunsets and starvation are goodAlways use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title…. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn’t care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.Make sure you show how Africans have music and rhythm deep in their souls, and eat things no other humans eat.

This is what’s changing: Most of the more serious stuff that I occasionally posted here will move to the recently launched A2K Hub, a blog run by the United Nations University MERIT Institute. I work as a researcher at MERIT and will do most of the posting on FOSS and commons-based production models, but will be joined by other researchers who focus on biotechnology etc. That also means that the content on this here bokaap blog will become a little more free-form.