Magoma’s new Project Coordinators (PCs), Cintia Kawasaki and, yours truly, Lindsay Myron, are pleased to welcome you to Magoma Blog 2.0! Ana and Kristina have officially handed over the reigns and it’s time to get down to business.
We’ve been counting down the days (in Swahili) till our…
Lindsay, your job sounds awesome. Can’t wait to read more!
Foreign aid in the other direction?
Here’s a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What’s the word for doorknob? People who have studied a language in a classroom rarely know the answer. But those who have been embedded in a country know. America would be a wiser country if we had more people who knew how to translate “doorknob.” I would bet that those people who know how to say doorknob in Farsi almost invariably oppose a military strike on Iran.
