skip to main | skip to sidebar

Africa Unchained

A platform for analysing and contributing to the issues and solutions raised by George Ayittey's latest book 'Africa Unchained'.

Friday, August 01, 2008

Quick Hits

A renaissance of Eritrea's diaspora?
Brazil a BRIC, strengthens and asserts itself.
No longer low tech, China's industry.
Constantine Chiwenga, Zimbabwe's butcher of Matabeleland in the wings?-3quarksdaily
Related articles by Zemanta
  • Oil Below $120 Will Reverse `BR-IC' Fortunes:
Zemanta Pixie
Posted by Emeka Okafor at 9:52 AM
Labels: diaspora, emerging markets, globalization, leadership, politics, trade

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About Me

Emeka Okafor
Emeka Okafor is an entrepreneur who lives in New York City.He was the director for TED Global 2007 that took place in Arusha, Tanzania and is the TED Africa Director. His interests include sustainable technologies in the developing world and paradigm breaking technologies in general. His blog, Timbuktu Chronicles seeks to spur dialogue in areas of entrepreneurship, technology and the scientific method as it impacts Africa. "Timbuktu is a city unsullied by the worship of idols...a refuge of scholarly and righteous folk, a haunt of saints and ascetics, and a meeting place of caravans and boats" -Al-Sa'Di
View my complete profile

Sponsorship for Maker Faire Africa - MFA

My Blog List

  • Global Voices Online
    Fiji: The fall of movie pirates - With Fiji’s government cracking down on outlets selling pirated DVDs, L. Cass pens a piece in Failed Paradise criticizing these “cheating” retailers but al...
    3 hours ago
  • FT.com - Africa
    Conflicting signals in S Africa over appointment - South Africa's mineral resources minister welcomed the appointment of Sir John Parker as chairman of Anglo American, but there is unhappiness in the govern...
    5 hours ago
  • Grandiose Parlor
    Five facts African leaders need get - Obama - If African heads of state care about their jobs, sincere about good governance, and love the people they lead, then they should get the message behind Obam...
    7 hours ago
  • Congo Resources
    Class Assignment - Read this essay by Paul Collier and the various responses to it provided by the Boston Review. Discuss the implications for policy for the Congo.
    7 hours ago
  • PSD Blog - The World Bank Group
    Time for another look at labor laws in India? - India is known for its stringent labor laws—so stringent, in fact, that studies have shown they stifle employment creation. The current global financial cr...
    8 hours ago
  • AfricanLoft
    Femi Kuti Talks About First Album in Seven Years - Femi Kuti, the oldest son of late Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, talks about the release of his first album in seven years, Day By Day, opening for the Dave M...
    9 hours ago
  • Global Voices Online » Sub-Saharan Africa
    South Africa: Table Mountain in New 7 Wonders of Nature competition - Table Mountain in South Africa is nominated for the New 7 Wonders of Nature: “If you live in South Africa there is almost no chance that you don’t know som...
    10 hours ago
  • open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
    Nikki Thomas on "From anger into change" - I think the only way real "change" for democracy is going to happen in Britian is if they move further away from a monarchial style of government so that...
    11 hours ago
  • halftribe - Promoting the Arts & Culture of Africa
    Music Video: Yearning for Home by Siji - SIJI - "Yearning For Home" Music Video from SIJI on Vimeo.
    11 hours ago
  • 3quarksdaily
    Will Europe’s Economies Regain Their Footing? - Kenneth Rogoff in The Korea Times: What will Europe's growth trajectory look like after the financial crisis? For some Europeans, still nervous that their ec...
    12 hours ago
  • NIGERIAN CURIOSITY
    OBAMA'S THOUGHTS ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT - Part 1: Part 2: [image: AddThis Feed Button] Thanks to Dr. U.
    13 hours ago
  • This is Zimbabwe
    Neglected pet cemetery is a source of ‘food’ for the desperately poor - For several years the City of Bulawayo has been without a crematorium. However thanks to the endeavours of a number of valiant citizens, we now have a full...
    13 hours ago
  • CIPE Development Blog
    Entrepreneurship and Obstacles to Employment for Arab Youth - A new opinion study by Gallup and Silatech - “Voices of Young Arabs” -measures young Arabs’ career aspirations, life expectations and thoughts on employmen...
    13 hours ago
  • The Long Now Blog
    The age of discovery - The Long News: stories that might still matter fifty, or a hundred, or ten thousand years from now. We may have Google-mapped every last nook and cranny of...
    16 hours ago
  • Kwani Trust
    A Poet Realizes He Is Human - Reflections by Samuel Munene Not long ago I attended a poetry open mic at a city restaurant. I sat next to lady in a grey cotton skirt suit, holding a diar...
    17 hours ago
  • Suleiman's Blog
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL PROBLEM - By: Salisu Suleiman Have you ever seen a Nigerian local government Chairman in full stride? He has a full retinue of bodyguards. He is dressed with the fla...
    18 hours ago
  • Nigeria Health Watch
    Stepping Stones: The "witches" fight back - On the 12 November 2008 Nigerians living in the UK were shocked and traumatised by a documentary on "Saving Africa’s Witch Children" broadcast on ITV. As i...
    19 hours ago
  • Poéfrika
    Opal Palmer Adisa's "The Muse" -
    20 hours ago
  • Palapye.com News Blog
    Can Khama pick his cousin for VP? - source: The Botswana Gazette Written by JFG Tuesday, 07 July 2009 10:14 Automatic succession of State President in spotlight No law is cast in stone – Ntua...
    21 hours ago
  • kaasa
    Wishing Safety For All - Hello! No long post tonight and just wanted to say: 1. First and most important, I pray for my cousins, you and your families in Kenya, now that Ocam...
    22 hours ago
  • Aid Watch
    The Pope, the G8, and the “Man in Charge” Fallacy - by William Easterly During the G8 meetings, Pope Benedict released a new encyclical saying “there is urgent need of a true world political authority.” This a...
    22 hours ago
  • Zambian Economist
    Friday Review of Zambian Blogs - This week's *Zambian Economist* selection of whose saying what in the Zambian Blogosphere. Zambian Union discusses the *arrest of Post News Editor Chansa ...
    22 hours ago
  • Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
    Arts & Letters Daily (10 Jul 2009) - Baseball makes the blood run hot, and yes, Red Sox fans do hate the Yankees. But India and Pakistan nearly went to war over cricket... more A Hershey's ...
    23 hours ago
  • Africa Science News Service, ASNS
    Lake Naivasha to dry faster than anticipated - The rate at which flower firms around Lake Naivasha is not only putting the health of people living around it at risk but also threatening the life of the ...
    1 day ago
  • Chris Blattman's Blog
    Rules of the road - UNHCR lent our project three Land Cruisers, prompting me to finally overcome my irrational aversion to driving in developing countries. I had no idea wha...
    1 day ago
  • Mars Group Blog
    Anglo Leasing and Triton - Switzerland takes aim at corruption in Kenya. Prosecution against presumptive money launderers. - [translated from German] Bern takes aim at corruption in Kenya. Prosecution against presumptive money launderers. 6. Juli 2009, Neue Zürcher Zeitung - - Ku...
    1 day ago
  • My Pen and My Paper
    Nigeria-Michael Jackson Committee of Friends denied US VISAs - The above picture is from here, but on a more serious note, I just got information that the above organization were denied US Visas. Very unfortunate, isn’...
    1 day ago
  • Benn loxo du taccu
    The n’goni travels well - Last week the good people at Rock Paper Scissors introduced me to Chieck Hamala Diabate’s upcoming release, Ake Doni Ani. I always approach new-world/old-w...
    2 days ago
  • Africa Works
    Relax … in Africa - Africa is often presented in the media as a nuisance, a place of stress, deception and ultimately disappointment. Yet the truth is that many Africans are a...
    3 days ago
  • Kenyan Pundit
    Fun for kids in Kenya - During my last trip to Kenya, I realized that next time around I need to do more fun stuff with the kids instead of just shuttling them around to visit one...
    3 days ago
  • (EN) Africa Can - (EN) end poverty
    Why Don’t We See Poverty Rates Converging? - Sub-Saharan Africa now has the highest incidence of extreme poverty, such as judged by the World Bank’s $1.25 a day poverty line. Granted, Africa has sho...
    3 days ago
  • The Vigilante Journalist
    Mothers Protest at Evin Prison -
    4 days ago
  • siphoning off a few thoughts
    in defense of walking in ignorance (but appreciation) of nature - How much you get from walking will depend, in the last resort, upon yourself, rather than the country. One mind will get more out of a few fields than ano...
    4 days ago
  • Akin about things too concerning to ignore
    Akin Konsult gets registered in less than 35 - My experience of registering my comapny in the Netherlands with the residual Nigerian in the background keeping me from getting it done properly and on tim...
    4 days ago
  • Sci Cultura
    Some Thoughts on African Film - Anyone who’s read the recent posts on this blog will know that I am enthralled, intrigued and besotted by the use of film as a medium to convey stories. Th...
    4 days ago
  • AFRICA.VISUAL_MEDIA
    Carlos Alavarez Montero: Harlem Shuffle - I live in Harlem. recently as I’ve watched more and more youngsters pick up skating, I’ve been telling myself “I should shoot the emerging skate culture ar...
    5 days ago
  • Twiga
    Democracy in Burundi Mixtape - [image: democracy in burundi]It's Friday night and, thanks to *Mo' Modernity, Mo' Problems*, I'm enjoying this fine mixtape titled Democracy in Burundi and...
    1 week ago
  • The Kaufmann Governance Post
    Indicadores Mundiales de Gobernabilidad 2009 - Acabamos de salir a la luz con los Indicadores Mundiales de Gobernabilidad 2009, y con el nuevo reporte ‘Governance Matters’. El resumen, reporte y datos ...
    1 week ago
  • artspeakafrica
    OPEN CALL: Video Art Exhibition at CCA,Lagos - *2008/9 Video Art Workshop *In October 2008 CCA,Lagos ran its first one week video workshop in collaboration with the one minute video art foundation led b...
    1 week ago
  • The Sudanese Thinker
    RIP King of Pop - You’re probably tired of seeing the news everywhere, but he deserves to be remembered. He certainly will always be remembered and immortalized by the amazi...
    1 week ago
  • SAYMAMA
    Michelle and the 1 Train – NYC - Written 7th May 2009-06-28 at Dean & Deluca I was on the ‘1’ train in NYC today, when I squeezed myself with my shopping bags to sit between two ladies. A c...
    1 week ago
  • Which Way NIGERIA
    Who becomes the role model; the pastor or the politician? - **A story was recently told in a newspaper article by Professor Ernest Emenyonu about twenty-four post graduate students in a Masters course in Economics...
    2 weeks ago
  • Rising from the Ashes
    -
    2 weeks ago
  • laspapi
    - *Heal the World - Michael Jackson (August 1958-June 2009)*
    2 weeks ago
  • A Romanian in Africa
    Glorious Exit (2008): a world revealed - Jarreth Merz is a Swiss-Nigerian actor living in Los Angeles. When his father passed away he was summoned to Nigeria. He is the first born so, according to...
    2 weeks ago
  • What's a BOPreneur?
    BOP Blips - - Nice to see IDDS get a shout out in this month's Fast Company calendar. This will start on July 8 in Kumasi, Ghana. Two Colorado State students, Sule Ama...
    2 weeks ago
  • African Politics Portal
    China and Tanzania: The most Unequal Equals - Two months ago I was invited by a group of passionate young people from Yale University to deliver a speech on the bilateral agreements between China and T...
    3 weeks ago
  • Africa News
    Malawi: US donates $50,000 testing machine - The United States of America through its drug company – Pfizer – has donated a high performance liquid chromatography machine to Malawi Bureau (MBS) of Sta...
    3 weeks ago
  • ethiopundit
    An awaj by any other name .... - *"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ... or as vile." Quote adapted with apologies to Shakespeare* Awa...
    3 weeks ago
  • Omoluwabi Okebadan
    Operating System Lesson 4. The Apeke lectures. - Affection and Attention are powerful stimulants that like the morning cup of coffee is something we constantly crave. In fact we confuse these two gratifyi...
    3 weeks ago
  • George Ngwane
    Cultural Diplomacy - By Mwalimu George Ngwane* The Nigerian trade and cultural week organised by the Nigerian High Commission in Cameroon from 16-22 March 2009, had for theme “...
    4 weeks ago
  • Sociolingo's Africa
    Sociolingo’s Africa moving to Sociolingo.com - Three years ago I started a blog called Sociolingo’s Africa on WordPress.com. I am a sociolinguist with a PhD in Education (language and education) and my ...
    5 weeks ago
  • The Bottom Billion Blog
    Selected Reading - This week has seen the launch of a new information wiki, African Signals, from Eric Hershman of White African and Ushahidi. The purpose of the platform is ...
    2 months ago
  • Africa's Turn? Blog
    Getting to know Jacob Zuma - It looks like we’re all going to get to know Jacob Zuma pretty well over the next five (or ten or more?) years, now that his court troubles are over and hi...
    3 months ago
  • Mentalacrobatics
    Livelihoods v Lives - Douglas Alexander the UK government’s Secretary of State for International Development – a cabinet level position – has one of the hardest jobs at the Lond...
    3 months ago
  • The Farafinist
    Moving House - This blog has moved to its own domain. Please visit blog.farafinamagazine.com for the all-new The Farafinist and bookmark it. You can subscribe to the RSS ...
    3 months ago
  • Zoo Station
    The difference between a cent and a dollar, according to Verizon - Hat tip: Gaurav Sabnis
    4 months ago
  • Africabeat
    One Laptop per Child Soliciting Applications from College Students - David Sengeh, a junior at Harvard College studying biomedical engineering and originally from Sierra Leone, has asked me to share the following with you: One...
    4 months ago
  • The Afropolitan Network:::
    My Next Door Neighbor is a Vacant House - There's an amazing photo essay by Camilo Jose Vergara on Slate. Its about decaying paired houses in Camden, New Jersey. If you know anything about Camden, yo...
    4 months ago
  • Learning Loam
    Creating Future TEDsters - I returned to New York City, to my life post-TED, with the modest goal of creating future TEDsters. Inspired by the all-pervasive love for learning that ...
    4 months ago
  • CyBlug (GidiBlog) - Abuja, Nigeria and Beyond ...
    Who’s the Next Governor-in-Law? - By Eni-B You must be familiar with father-in-law or mother-in-law or brother-in-law or sister-in-law or son-in-law or daughter-in-law. However, you may not h...
    5 months ago
  • wordsbody
    Farafina's Arts & Lit Eve - Farafina's afternoon of Photography (Adolphus Opara's exhibition), Film (MW's interview with Ben Okri) and Readings (Nnedi Okorafor; winner of the 2008 WS Pr...
    7 months ago
  • Watch France
    33 Senior French Officials Named In Genocide Report - (Culled from New Times, Kigali, Rwanda, August 6th, 2008) By Kennedy Ndahiro GASABO - The government yesterday released the long-awaited report on the allege...
    11 months ago
  • africa science
    Rapid Radiation, Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages - Rapid Radiation, Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages Clare J. Holden & Russell D. Gray PDF WITH ILLUSTRATIONS http://language.psy.auc...
    1 year ago

Latest Comments

Loading...

Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter

    Blogs

    • Africa Beat
    • Africa in Business
    • Chippla
    • EthioPundit
    • Freedom Wings
    • Grandiose Parlor
    • Indian Economy Blog
    • Kenyan Pundit
    • Mzansi Afrika
    • The Sub-Saharan African roundtable
    • The Zimbabwean Pundit
    • Timbuktu Chronicles
    • Which Way Nigeria
    • Yebo Gogo
      Timbuktu Chronicles

      Labels

      • activism (90)
      • agriculture (52)
      • aid (188)
      • Art (26)
      • Artists (13)
      • Books (12)
      • business (104)
      • commodities (41)
      • communication (82)
      • conservation (15)
      • corruption (162)
      • crisis (49)
      • culture (260)
      • democracy (136)
      • development (294)
      • diaspora (62)
      • DLD (1)
      • economics (82)
      • education (239)
      • emerging markets (112)
      • enlightenment (163)
      • entrepreneurship (182)
      • finance (162)
      • Fusion (1)
      • globalization (199)
      • governance (78)
      • health (32)
      • history (218)
      • informal economies (66)
      • infrastructure (100)
      • innovation (97)
      • institutions (249)
      • investment (117)
      • leadership (327)
      • manufacturing (27)
      • markets (100)
      • media (125)
      • Morgan Tsvangirai (4)
      • policy (134)
      • politics (109)
      • poverty reduction (104)
      • privitization (18)
      • publishing (6)
      • remittances (22)
      • self-sustanance (178)
      • SME's (13)
      • technology (60)
      • TED Global (58)
      • Tourism (10)
      • trade (77)
      • Vietnam (1)
      • wealth creation (155)
      • women (67)
       

      Institutions

      • Africa Leadership Forum
      • African Leadership Institute
      • Free Africa Foundation
      • Imani: The Centre for Humane Education
      • Africa Leadership Initiative
      • AFFORD, The African Foundation for Development
      • The African Leadership and Progress Network
      • Global Voices
      • The African Executive
      • Direct Expatriate Nationals Investment
      • Sahara Reporters
      • Ghana Think Tank

      Books

      • Dead Aid
      • Africa Unchained
      • GraceLand
      • Purple Hibiscus
      • The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives
      • Reclaiming Africa
      • African Fractals
      • From Third World to First : The Singapore Story
      • The Trouble with Africa : Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
      • Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters
      • What Went Wrong with Africa

      Blog Archive

      • ▼ 2009 (211)
        • ▼ July (12)
          • The Karatara Project
          • Non-Existent Ivory Towers
          • Nigeria's Maladjusted Middle Class
          • Bisi Silver's Centre for Contemporary Art
          • Gambia's Donor Supported Dictator Strengthens His ...
          • The PanAfrican Cultural Festival
          • Obama in Africa
          • Interviewing Paul Sika
          • Women will be Steering
          • The Beautiful Tree
          • New rules for Rebuilding a Broken Nation
          • Nigerian Returnees vs India's
        • ► June (29)
          • Quick Hits
          • Not Caring about Our Women
          • Democracy Attitudes
          • Agahozo Shalom Youth Village
          • A Literature Boom?
          • Makaechi “because of tomorrow”
          • Quick Hits
          • Reducing Car accidents-Amend
          • ewaBAMIJO
          • 'Democracy in Dakar'
          • Assisting the Thieves-The Western Media
          • Madhvani Foundation
          • Lets try and Sell to each Other!
          • Protecting innovative brains
          • A Parasitic Elite
          • The Creative Economy
          • Green Lights For Plunder
          • Death of a Kleptocrat-Omar Bongo
          • LagosSoundScape
          • Beyond the Romance of Microfinance
          • Bright Ugochukwu Eke
          • Facets of Lagos
          • Creating wealth
          • Quick Hits
          • Community Control & Conservation
          • Beyond a Culture of Dependency
          • Mousgoum Architecture
          • The Real Enterprising Economy-The Informal Sector
          • Sliding Liberia
        • ► May (32)
          • The Resource Curse and Democracy
          • Quick Hits
          • Paul Polak contd
          • Making a case for Makers
          • Nuhu Indicts Nigeria's Ruling Elite
          • Aid Addict-Tanzania
          • Time Up for Rhetoric on Science
          • Bridge Building with Sports
          • Africa has to find its own Road to Prosperity
        • ► April (33)
        • ► March (39)
        • ► February (35)
        • ► January (31)
      • ► 2008 (416)
        • ► December (30)
        • ► November (23)
        • ► October (17)
        • ► September (30)
        • ► August (56)
        • ► July (41)
        • ► June (48)
        • ► May (53)
        • ► April (42)
        • ► March (23)
        • ► February (21)
        • ► January (32)
      • ► 2007 (299)
        • ► December (34)
        • ► November (36)
        • ► October (7)
        • ► September (23)
        • ► August (37)
        • ► July (45)
        • ► June (20)
        • ► May (24)
        • ► April (13)
        • ► March (24)
        • ► February (12)
        • ► January (24)
      • ► 2006 (236)
        • ► December (14)
        • ► November (25)
        • ► October (17)
        • ► September (10)
        • ► August (26)
        • ► July (21)
        • ► June (21)
        • ► May (34)
        • ► April (13)
        • ► March (13)
        • ► February (23)
        • ► January (19)
      • ► 2005 (151)
        • ► December (30)
        • ► November (33)
        • ► October (18)
        • ► September (27)
        • ► August (21)
        • ► July (11)
        • ► June (11)

      ShareThis

      Blog Networks
      Blog:
      Africa Unchained
      Topics:
      Instiutions, leadership, Self Sustenance
       
      Join my network
      Afrigator

      Followers

      Papers

      • Strengthening African Leadership
      • Guidance for Promoting Judicial Independence and Impartiality

      Video

      • Ayittey Wide Angle Interview 'Border Jumpers'
      • Ayittey vs Sachs (Jim Lehrer)
      • Nigeria's Struggle with Corruption