Pundita on African economies and European oddness

The blogger Pundita has several posts this week in which she sees Europe not acting like its usual self, so to speak. For instance:

Has anyone else noticed that something really strange is going on across the Pond? Dave Schuler at The Glittering Eye has just sent Pundita this bombshell: an online newspaper interview with a Kenyan economist who charges that aid to Africa and Western development policies helped wreck the continent.Nothing the economist says would be news to Pundita readers, but the astounding part is that the newspaper is Germany's Spiegel and that they actually published the interview...

She has an excerpt, and links.

Roundabout hat tip to Marc Schulman of the American Future blog for this post in which he thanks Pundita. Who, I asked myself, is this Pundita...?