The Promise of Whistleblowing in China

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} A notable example of Chinese neologism, the creation or use of new words, from the coronavirus pandemic is the notion of the whistleblower, or chui shao ren 吹哨人. The emergence of whistleblowing in the Chinese public discourse is inextricably linked to  Dr.…

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The Message(s) in the Music: Lyrics Promote Accountability in Nigeria

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} A lack of accountability undermines a fair and equal society. In Nigeria, in a society that’s been strangled by corruption, people feel distrustful, impatient and unequal. Twenty years after Nigeria’s first democratically-elected President, Nigerians have seen rage and disillusionment from…

The Swahili Word for Transparency, and the Fallacies of Linguistic Determinism

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} I recently attended a workshop where participants were debating, among other things, why reform initiatives to promote government transparency and other anticorruption measures in places like sub-Saharan Africa had such a (seemingly) poor track record. In the course of the…