The Blue Sweater 500

One of my favorite books of the year was The Blue Sweater, by Acumen Fund’s Jacqueline Novogratz. See her talking about it here: There’s a fantastic post over on BethKanter.org talking about The Blue Sweater 500 challenge — a way to encourage others...

King Leopold’s Ghost

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild is another incredible book about Africa. Specially about King Leopold of Belgium’s disastrous role in what is now Congo (the former Belgian Congo, the former...