New Year's Day

Day one of 2010 was devoted to consuming media about Africa. Saw Invictus in the afternoon and finished reading "Strength in What Remains," by Tracy Kidder (who previously wrote the Paul Farmer biography). Morgan Freeman was terrific as Nelson Mandela, and the book is a thoughtful and moving account of a survivor of the 1993 civil war in burundi. Most remarkably, it raises criticisms of Paul Kagame and the current Rwandan government. Until recently, the Kagame regime was the darling of the international community.