African Development for the Completely Bloody Ignorant is part of the Brass Tacks project.
To get down to brass tacks: Get to the real issue; deal with the task at hand.
- New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd. ed., Houghton Miffler, 2002
A new kind of documentary
Brass Tacks (working title) is a new series of audio documentaries that seeks to give people the essential understanding of the big issues in around an hour. Download each episode and comprehend - on your way to work, at home, in the gym. Obtain extra information, and check sources, on the web. Comment and suggest questions for followup episodes.
Brass tacks believes in a better, more rigorous but less limiting model of objectivity to meet the needs of today’s audience. For a better idea, see the statement of principles.
Over time, Brass Tacks will cover such fundamental issues as climate change, the conflict in the middle east, and the welfare state. But for the first episode Brass Tacks is addressing the issue that has dominated the world’s media, and in particular the minds of young people, over the last year or so - Africa.
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