Takes village to raise this childLast week in Africa, I learned I had two wives, and I have to admit the news shocked me. No, this isn't an argument for polygamy. Like my Kenyan friend who offered this provocative assertion, I feel that one mother-in-law is enough.
Still, my friend's teasing got me thinking that globalization has done less to change the essential nature of human interactions than simply recast their scale and reach. In short, the global village is real, defined less by technology than by people's super-empowered desire to connect to others.
First, let me give you the genealogy of my Kenyan friend, Ngewa.
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The Kenyans are wonderful people. They deserve a reasonably honest representative government and reasonably free markets. Instead they have a kleptocracy and rigged markets that keep the country in poverty.
How do we get governments like Kenya's to reform and join the march of free markets toward connectivity?
Posted by Jimmy J | March 18, 2007 9:22 PM