Just to let everyone know, I’ll be away for the next week. I will have access to email, but I won’t be able to update this blog. However, don’t stop reading this page, because I’ve asked Mayibuye Magwaza to guest-blog for me while I’m away. Like me, his background is in international relations, and in [...]

iAfrica.com has published a very kind review of this blog. I don’t have much to say about this about this, except that I’m very grateful and flattered to the be recipient of such attention so early on in this blog’s run.

The first post on any blog is always vaguely awkward, so let’s get it over with. I am Laurence Caromba, and this is my new blog. Some of you may know me from Commentary.co.za, where I blogged regularly for several years before - unforgivably - allowing my posting frequency to dwindle down to nothingness. Others [...]