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- Emeka Okafor
- Emeka Okafor is an entrepreneur and venture catalyst who lives in New York City.He is the curator of Maker Faire Africa.He was the director for TED Global 2007 that took place in Arusha,Tanzania.In addition he is a member of the TED fellowship team.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
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Brazzaville explosion kills at least 200 - Republic of Congo's defence minister told state radio that a fire at the regimental base in the Mpila neighbourhood had triggered the blasts1 hour ago
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Friendly atmosphere in Abidjan as Senegal nationals in Côte d'Ivoire went to vote - Suy Kahofi wrote on mondoblog [fr] regarding the atmosphere in Senegalese polling stations in the capital of Côte d’Ivoire: “This voting process has been, ...1 hour ago
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Francis Osuwo was Killed by Nigerian Government For Refusing to Implicate Henry Okah: MEND - *Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta* The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (M.E.N.D) received without surprise, news of th...
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A Herstory: I Come From A Long Line of Strong Women & Some of Them Are White – The Maternal Matriarchy - I was 3 years old and I hated my cousin Alexandra. She was 5 years older than me so why was I always being compared to her? She was my Babushka’s first gra...6 hours ago
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Editorial: The Language of Thought - This week’s offerings, short, traverse a realm of experimentations. In Teju Cole’s Kadara Kekeke, the writer’s pithy twitter-based news-based literature ta...10 hours ago
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“The return of P2P” - The P2P Foundation was recently featured in the Argentinian newspaper Página 12 in a report about P2P following the closing of Megaupload. Franco Iacomella...13 hours ago
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And the police came knocking on my door - March 3rd, 2012 started as a brilliant day. I got up early and spent a good 40 minutes washing and polishing the car. I wanted her, *Angelica*, our belov...13 hours ago
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Ethiopian Review capacity building program - Dear Ethiopian Review reader: We invite you to take part in a sponsorship program called 1K5 (see here) that is intended to expand Ethiopian Review’s capac...21 hours ago
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Africa’s Singapore or Uganda waiting to happen? - Yet Rwanda has one huge advantage: the rule of law. No African country has done more to curb corruption. Ministers have been jailed for it. Transparency In...1 day ago
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Reflecting on Democracy that Delivers for Women - CIPE Chair Karen Kerrigan introduces the Democracy that Delivers for Women conference. Last year for the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, CI...1 day ago
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Ugandan government impounds Twaweza citizenship calendars - Last Friday, the Ugandan government confiscated 700,000 calendars produced by Twaweza. As far as I know, they remain in police custody. The calendar was an...2 days ago
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Kingston Book Festival 2012 - I'll give a talk at this festival [more details soon]. Here's a snippet from the press release: The Book Industry Association of Jamaica will stage the Ki...2 days ago
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Language: Speed vs. Density - The September 02011 issue of the journal Language included an article entitled “A Cross-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate,” by a team of ling...2 days ago
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Video - Documentary on the militant rebels in the Niger Delta - Current's Mariana van Zeller travels to one of the most unstable regions in the world - Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. She investigates what's behind t...2 days ago
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In Senegal, a new fight against legal monarchs - In a recent article for the Atlantic.com, I complained about the vanity of Senegal’s president, Wade, who rather than stepping into retirement after two te...2 days ago
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Our Indian Myna Birds - This tree is just in front of our garden. It is forever under threat. People want to cut it down for firewood. Now, if you look carefully at the photo, you...
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Friday Links - It’s been a while since I last did this. Blame it on Twitter and Facebook. And Google Plus. Depending on your social media of your choice, click any of the...2 days ago
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More than 50% of Gambians still in poverty despite improvement in education, health - The latest report of the International Monetary Fund on The Gambia has revealed that majority of Gambia’s 1.8 million people still lives in poverty despite a...
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Back from the Doctor - So I had my ECG today and it was kind of weird. They put these metal suction cup thingies on my boobs and on my arms and legs and at a whole bunch of strat...
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Now that the American NGO workers are safe, let's review aid to Egypt - A few minutes ago the plane carrying NGO workers out of Egypt took off, ending the diplomatic spat between Washington and Cairo. Concerns naturally remai...3 days ago
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Don’t Take After Your Father - So I got this in my email…. …and shrieked with joy! Field Ruwe, author of the dynamic work concerning Africans and Intellectuals that went viral last mont...3 days ago
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Fertilizer shortage sparks protests in Kenya – while Government pays Ksh 5 Billion for Non-Existent Fertiliser Factory - By 2015, when Kenya is due to make the last payments due on account of the phantom Ken-Ren Fertiliser Factory project, Kenyan taxpayers will have been goug...3 days ago
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MUSDOKI: Literature and the distortion of history - Reprinted for archival purposes: First published December 25, 2010 The poet Ahmed Maiwada is a talented, hard working writer possessing a vision seemingly ...3 days ago
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Occupy Twitter Translator! - Akitiyan láti mú Twitter fi Yoruba kún ikan lára àwọn èdè tí oun èlò náà ti le di mímúlò. E darapò mó wa ni twitter pèlú #twitterYoruba, kí ẹ sì fi tweet n...3 days ago
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Springtime at MAD’s Beauty in All Things Show - The Groundhog has reported six more weeks of winter, yet the weather outside often suggests spring is just around the corner! When looking at the art in MA...2 weeks ago
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My TV Appearance on Al Jazeera: Sudan, Six Months After Separation - A few days ago, I had the pleasure of being on the orange couch of The Stream on Al Jazeera. It was my second time in the studio, and I was a lot more comf...4 weeks ago
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Once Upon a Time Buea - By Mwalimu George Ngwane* Born out of the quadruple heritage of her pre-colonial existence, her clash with German civilisation, her contact with British co...4 weeks ago
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Imagining Skyscraper Farms - Forbes coverage of Breaker's Urban Agriculture Challenge Begins...4 weeks ago
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Was the Niger-Congo Speakers Early people of the Desert? - The Niger-Congo Speakers probably played an important role in the peopling of the Sahara. Drake et al make it clear there was considerable human activity i...5 weeks ago
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9 languages for 90% of the world’s population - "To engage with all but a tiny fraction of people in the world, you definitely do not need to learn all their first languages. You need to learn all their ...5 weeks ago
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Just a Note on Mauritania - These are some general thoughts on the political situation in Mauritania as they stand now. The country is divided in significant ways and the economic sit...2 months ago
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Jonathan summons Service Chiefs to emergency security meeting - President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday summoned the Service Chiefs and other heads of the country's security agencies to an emergency meeting at the State...2 months ago
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Road Trip - It was a mere road trip to fetch my grandmother from our family's village in the Volta region for the New Year, yet it ran the gamut of emotions. Some impr...
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Bola Ige remembered, 10 years on - Last night at the Muson Centre, Lagos - children and grandchildren of the late Bola Ige - slain Attorney General and Minister of Justice who justice has so f...
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Nnedi's Book of the Year: Habibi by Craig Thompson - I read a LOT. I read as much as I write. I try to keep track on my Goodreads page but I don't list everything I read there (sometimes I forget to include b...
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Renowned Cape-Verdian singer, Cesaria Evora dies at 70 - Renowned West-African singer, Cesaria Evora passed away on Saturday in her native country of Cape Verde of cardiorespiratory insufficiency and hypertension...2 months ago
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Dispatches from Dakar - A few weeks ago, I was in Senegal. I was invited to participate in a reproductive health reporting project with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, in...2 months ago
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The Delusion of Positive Thinking - I’m procrastinating from a pile of work so I decided to clean up my inbox and look what I found! RSA does some really cool animations including my all time...2 months ago
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Gay Marriage and African Politics - I am writing to condemn in no uncertain terms the recent passage by the Senate of the the anti gay marriage bill. The passage of this bill once again dem...3 months ago
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africa.photography: late pass edition - Screen shot from Hey, Hot Shot! site © C. De Middel AFRONAUTS: File this under: “a future that never was”. Photographer Cristina De Middel uses the fact of...3 months ago
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Sulking by Morenike Singerr - Sulking has always hurt me, causing considerable pains in my throat and around my forehead. I have never remembered to ask anyone if they feel the same thi...3 months ago
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Let Me Tell You - You heard there was another bomb blast yesterday? Not in Maiduguri this time, in a new place, Dama-something. Yes, people died. Those mallams are serious o...3 months ago
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The Afropolitan Network is moving! - Catch new posts and goings on at The Afropolitan Shop See you there!3 months ago
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It cannot happen again. It cannot happen again. It cannot happen again. - Friday, October 14. The rain this week has been endless. Since the clouds blew in Tuesday afternoon, we haven’t seen a scrap of blue above us. The channel ...3 months ago
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Kenya’s Chief Justice to Hold Media Briefing - On October 19, 2011, on the occasion of his first 120 days in office, Kenyan Chief Justice Dr. Willy Mutunga will host a briefing for international journal...4 months ago
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Going Offline…for now - It saddens us to inform you that AfricanLoft will be shutting down on October 15...4 months ago
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Roundtable IV: On the art and cultural establishment–Karroum - Karroum: The relationship to the establishments or more exactly the rupture with the “official institution,” with its programmatic function that serves mor...4 months ago
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Arid Lands Network Awarded For Creating Knowledge Centres In Rural Areas - The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation Wednesday presented its 2011 Access to Learning Award of $1 million to the Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN), which p...6 months ago
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One More Year… - Hello, hello I am officially one year younger and decided to blog again Happy birthday to me and my compatriots born on this glorious day. I hope tha...6 months ago
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The Press Release Wars - With the world constantly searching for news regarding the situation in Somalia and the international Media still ravenously rummaging for stories regardin...7 months ago
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Where to find my latest blogs - Where to find my latest blogs. http://akinblog.nl Related Entries: - Social Engineering: Appealing to my vanity - Thought Picnic: Using a putdown as ...7 months ago
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I think we shall get there….. - The project I have started and working on in my local vicinity is one that will help the youths in my area (Assin) unleashed their hidden potentials to dev...8 months ago
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International Health Policies News #120 - This post is a guest editorial to #12o in a series on International Health Policies at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium It will soon ...9 months ago
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Friday Afternoon Africana - Because Fatoumata Diawara mixes Wassoulou sounds from the southwest of Mali with bluesy folk beats to deliver big, vibrant sounds:9 months ago
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For the River - Currently obsessed with this song by the outstanding self-proclaimed African Gypsy, Wanlov the Kubolor. I can’t think of a city that I have loved that does...9 months ago
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Top in ICT in Sub-Saharan Africa -Mauritius, South Africa and ...The Gambia? - Sub-Saharan Africa did very poorly on the latest World Economic Forum’s Networked Readiness Index (NRI) with the majority of the region lagging in the bott...10 months ago
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Africa's Pride - Women of Africa, please listen up with pride. Who ever said that beauty has a standard, has never seen an African Violet in full bloom. Our palms may no...11 months ago
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Israel against another incursion in Gaza - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday against initiating "any new assault" on Gaza, state-run Nile TV reported. The warnin...1 year ago
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Profit taking on BSE ahead of holidays - source: Mmegi Brian Benza Staff Writer Shares prices on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) weakened again last week with sellers outweighing buyers as the f...1 year ago
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CCA,Lagos Artist-in-Residence Albert Potrony Talk, Sat 27th Nov 2010, 2pm - Albert Potrony, Artist in Residence at CCA,Lagos In another pioneering initiative Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present a collaborative ...1 year ago
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Kwani? At The Storymoja Hay Festival - DATE: October 1st – October 3rd 2010 EVENTS 1. Kwani? Latest Titles Authors talk to the media. Read the details. 2. The Kwani Short Story In Relief Kwani? ...1 year ago
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Sex-for- Grade Scandal At Ambrose Alli Univ: Gov. Oshiomole Must Allow The Student Complete Her Degree If… - Following Saharareporter’s posting of the sex-for-grade video involving Prof. P.O. Otubu and Judith Okosun, both lecturer and 400-level student in the univ...1 year ago
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Continental airlines to start daily nonstop flights to Lagos, Nigeria - U.S based Continental Airlines has announced plans to start daily nonstop flights to Lagos, Nigeria, on Nov. 10, 2011, subject to government approval. This...1 year ago
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MPs WANTED: FOR CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY, - Author: Pam Giddy Summary: Power2010's campaign to bring change to UK politics is stepping up a gear. Power2010's campaign to bring change to UK p...1 year ago
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New Digs - I've finally made the move to Wordpress and my own domain (it was about time!) *Maybe* that means I'll actually start blogging again. At the very least, I ha...2 years ago
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Cabinda Rebels - Condolences to the Togolese national football squad on the loss of three lives from their contingent, including their bus chauffeur, due to the attack in...
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Pause - Yes, there haven’t been many posts lately. Let’s just say that Benn loxo du taccu is on pause until further notice. It’ll likely be back in some form, at s...2 years ago
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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 ...2 years ago
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