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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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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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African leaders launch 'super port' project - Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan launch $25bn joint project to build port, refinery and railway near UNESCO-listed island.18 minutes ago
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Fetus donates stem cells to heal mother's heart - From New Scientist: Why wait to be born to develop a healing hand? Mouse fetuses will give up stem cells to repair their mother's heart. The discovery could ...46 minutes ago
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We will launch rockets at the superstructure of uncooperative vessels: Niger Delta's MEND - * Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta * The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta(MEND) confirms that the attack on a Nigerian ma...
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Editorial: Thank You! - Last week Feint and Margin recorded our highest readership figures ever in over 18 months of publication. To our growing readership base and contributors...3 hours ago
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Quotes for Friday from Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk - I'm a man. I'm the one who commands and forbids. I will not accept any criticism of my behavior. All I ask of you is to obey me. Don't force me to discipli...4 hours ago
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Petition for the ICC to investigate the Anuak Genocide in Ethiopia - The Solidarity Movement for New Ethiopia (SMNE), in conjunction with the Anuak Justice Council (AJC), has launched a petition drive to beseech the Internat...4 hours ago
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Torch Bearer - *(For Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu)* 1. The Torch Bearer returns from a one-way trip wrapped in colours of Africa’s elephant. His spirit sits at o...7 hours ago
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Is Everything We Know about Asia's Missing Women Wrong? And Do More Women Go Missing in Africa? - Most readers of this blog are probably aware that a substantial number of women are said to be "missing" in India and China. That is, if you look at the demo...8 hours ago
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Five Ways Crowdsourcing Can Accelerate Your Start-Up - Source: Casey Armstrong – Shareable Crowdsourcing is a multifaceted creature, one that can put the power of automation and the flexibility of distributed w...10 hours ago
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Global Voices Podcast: Remembering Our School Days - In this edition we’re going back to school! From extreme teaching on the Niger River, to the fondest or most memorable educational moments of Global Voices...11 hours ago
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S. Sudan says Khartoum bombed two oil wells - Relations between Sudan and the South have deteriorated in recent months as talks about border disputes and oil transport fees have floundered11 hours ago
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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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Hope from Rwanda? - Kagame's government has lifted one million Rwandans out of poverty in the past five years, with poverty rates declining from 56.7% in 2005/6 to 44.9 percen...15 hours ago
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Portrait of a Sapeur from Democratic Republic of Congo Photo by... - Portrait of a Sapeur from Democratic Republic of Congo Photo by Stefano Tealdi16 hours ago
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Jim Richardson Seminar Media - This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking. Heirlooms: Saving Humanity’s 10,000-year Legacy ...16 hours ago
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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...17 hours ago
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20 Empowered Women that You Should Be Following on Twitter - Men are from Mars, women are from Venus – we’ve all heard that before. It’s no secret that the men and women are treated differently, but when it comes do...17 hours ago
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Los Angeles’s Beautiful Black History - “The *Southern California Library* is a people’s library dedicated to documenting and preserving the histories of communities in struggle for justice and...18 hours ago
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Two Perspectives on Tuaregs’ Experiences in or Returning from Libya - Two pieces on Tuareg movements in Libya and the Sahel merit attention. In one, the BBC’s Celeste Hicks describes the rippling effects of Qadhafi’s fall on ...19 hours 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...19 hours 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...19 hours ago
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Zimbabwe Inclusive Government Watch : Issue 35 & 36 - This combined issue of ZIG Watch, which focuses on breaches of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) recorded during December and January, is being released...21 hours ago
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Scamming the scammers: aussie woman scammed Nigerians - A BRISBANE woman fleeced Nigerian scam artists by stealing more than $30,000 from their internet car sales racket, a court has been told. Sarah Jane Cochra...21 hours ago
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My Busy Busy March - March has started and I'm about to get very busy. First I'm off to Cape Town for seventeen days then I'm back for a few days and then I head up north to Ma...22 hours ago
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Sociolinguistics : Impact and application, call for contributions - SocioLingo Africa Sociolinguistics book call *Second call for contributions to an edited volume** ‘Sociolinguistics: Impact and Application’ Email for q...1 day ago
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Arts & Letters Daily (01 Mar 2012) - The killing graph. A 46-year old statistician's ability to quantify mass atrocities has launched a data revolution in the human-rights world... more Wri...1 day 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 ...1 day ago
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P.S. Hanoi area recommendations? - Will be in the environs for 9 days. In addition to food and city recommendations, any three-day recommendations trip for parents-leaving-one-year-old-with-...1 day ago
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From PRI: US Policy Sparks Anti-Gay Attacks in Liberia - Thanks to Rebecca Littman for passing on this story from PRI, which argues that U.S. statements identifying treatment of gays as a human rights concern hav...1 day ago
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My Favourite Women in Art - *Awe Inspiring Female Artists* We live in a patriarchal society, that is a fact. That the art world is a man's world is also a fact. However, since the 60'...
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Behind the scenes of foreign business in Congo - Despite the insecurity and unjustified taxes imposed by the Congolese tax system, perpetually rising and curbing some foreign investment, some have been ab...1 day 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...1 day ago
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New Short Story in Kweli Journal - A new short story (to be included in my forthcoming collection) entitled The Little Girl with Budding Breasts and a Bubble-gum Laugh has just been publis...
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HEALTH SPOTLIGHT: ABIYE - Ondo State, three years ago had the highest maternal mortality rates in the southwest region of Nigeria. At the time, the landscape of the country was litt...1 day ago
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Nigerian pirates rob cargo ship and hold crew hostage - A maritime monitoring group said Wednesday that pirates have kidnapped at least two members of a cargo ship anchored off the Nigerian coast. The Internat...1 day ago
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2011 KCSE results - The break down is as follows: The usual suspects dominate the top ten list – with the new addition of Maranda. Boys take 7 out of the top ten positions. To...2 days ago
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Mar. 2012 Art Exhibition Recommendations - Another Africa’s top picks for exhibitions in March around the globe, from Berlin to Rabat, Dubai, Paris, New York and...2 days ago
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James Iroha ”Gringory” (19??- 2012) - By Adeola Aderounmu Gringory is dead and as usual Nigerians are praising him for the laughter he brought into their homes especially in the 1970s and 1980s...2 days ago
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We’re all the 1%, but we’re no Scott Bakula - Writing in Foreign Policy, Charles Kenny points out that, when you consider the global income distribution, middle-class Americans are actually part of the...2 days ago
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Kenya28Feb: Carry On - At 1pm EAT Kenyans across the country, across the continent and across the globe stood and sang all three stanzas of the Kenyan National Anthem together as...2 days ago
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The ‘Pussy Whipped’ And Battered Men Of Central Kenya: What Capitalism, Mau Mau War, And The Free Market Have To Do With It - Where men are threatened in Kenya, you can expect Maendeleo ya Wanaume (Movement for Men’s’ Rights), a conservative lobby group led by the colourful Mr Nde...2 days ago
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#MusicDistrict by Delphino Entertainment Kicks off in Abuja - Praiz , Tiwa Savage and Davido make an appearance. - Entertainment returned to Abuja this week courtesy of Delphino Entertainment with the maiden edition of Music District. After weeks of instability and reduce...2 days ago
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From Greek Tragedy to Italian Comedy: An African’s View of the Euro Zone Crisis - By: Salisu Suleiman Hungry, destitute and homeless, hundreds of people recently froze to death on the streets of Europe. The Euro Zone economic crisis is...3 days ago
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Most influential African thinker alive poll on AIAC - Head over there to see the list. And don’t forget to vote!3 days ago
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Good Bye World – I Will Always Love You - What can I say? I love life and living. Its not like I haven’t had an absolutely amazing time while here with you all. I have. So don’t go asking me no dum...3 days ago
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Numbi: A Night of Afropolitan Funk - Numbi promotes all that is gorgeous, funky and fresh in London. A cross-cultural arts platform, it is the place where gifted poets flex their linguistic mu...6 days ago
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Job Opportunity - Abuja - Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) is a foundation established to provide support for socio-economic development programmes in the Niger D...6 days ago
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Leading Angola - Luanda, February 12 — Angola's *President Jose Eduardo dos Santos* will seek a new term with former state oil company head Manuel Vicente as his vice- pre...
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Kibera Then and Now - KIBERA, Kenya (ILO Online) – Deep within the labyrinth of this bustling informal settlement’s infinite network of footpaths, a young man tends to rows of p...1 week ago
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Living History: Wole Soyinka Interview - Any African writer who has not read Soyinka should reassess his/her profession. Period. For me, reading Soyinka is like having a cup of coffee in the mornin...
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How police aided underage voting, other irregularities in Sokoto governorship election - By PETER NKANGA Barely a kilometre away from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Sokoto State’s Tureta Local Government, a polic...1 week ago
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Polio - Nigeria's role in the final push - Every quarter, an Independent Monitoring Board assesses progress towards the attainment of a polio-free world. The Independent Monitoring Board was conven...
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The collapse of national capitalism: a Sophoclean tragedy - The global economic crisis is not merely financial, a moment in the historical cycle of credit and debt. The removal of political controls over money in re...1 week ago
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Urbanization: an African urban myth? - The London-based Africa Research Institute, a think tank, issued a shockingly contrarian report today on the “fallacy” of rapid urbanization in Africa. Of ...1 week ago
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The most popular question about HIV - One of my other passions is writing an HIV and AIDS column in the Malawi Nation Newspaper. Readers are welcome to, in fact they are strongly encouraged to,...1 week ago
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On The Coming of Age of an African Woman - After celebrating my birthday sometime ago, I was impressed to pencil down a couple of things about my experiences growing up as an African woman in Nigeri...1 week ago
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M-Pesa linked to rise in inflation - Really? - Business Daily link to the article http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/M+Pesa+linked+to+rise+in+inflation/-/539552/1327538/-/tjjsm9/-/index.html Whereas I a...1 week ago
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Iconic Characters- In the Performance or Writing that is the Question - A few weeks ago I’m on FaceBook and I come across a question on my time line Film:Characterisation vs Character interpreters. Exactly what goes into creati...1 week ago
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kristof in sudan - Where in the world is Nick Kristof? Late last week, he posted a series of secretive tweets alluding to his trip to an unsafe destination: On Saturday, Kri...
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Better and Better - Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation and Co-founder and Chairman of Singularity University. He is a serial entrepreneur tur...1 week ago
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Curatorial Fellowship at Museum for African Art, NY - **The Museum for African Art is pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Curatorial Fellow will b...1 week ago
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Thank You For Your Support - A few days ago, I put out a call for financial support for a friend who was in need. I can report that she is doing well. I know it was a very short notice...1 week ago
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Soldiers mutiny in Ituri - Paid soldiers are happy soldiers. Unpaid soldiers can wreak havoc. Joseph Kabila would be wise to not forget this golden rule of political survival. Radi...
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3bute for Virus - Below is an adaptation of my short story ‘Virus,’ created by Bunmi Oloruntoba of 3bute.com, ‘a mashable anthology of African modernity.’ The result is an i...1 week 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...1 week ago
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Martyrs of Democracy, February 16 - Twenty years ago, on February 16, 1992, Congolese Christians responded to a call by the Catholic Church to protest peacefully and demand the reopening of t...2 weeks ago
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Listening to Kinshasa - Here’s the trailer for a film made in 2006 about the fringes of Kinshasa’s music scene, by the same team who made the celebrated Staff Benda Bilili documen...2 weeks ago
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Conviction of Spain’s Superjudge Garzon: An indictment of its own judiciary? - The recent conviction (ostensibly for ordering jailhouse witetaps) of Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish j...2 weeks ago
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Unreasonable Crowdfunding - *Teju Ravilochan is a co-founder of the **Unreasonable Institute**, whichaccelerates entrepreneurs tackling global challenges with 6 weeks of mentorship,ac...2 weeks ago
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Increased cases of Africans losing their cash to Japan based used car fraudsters! - For most of us in Africa, buying a brand new car is not easy. We, however, benefit from the booming used car industry in Japan. These cars are generally ch...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...3 weeks ago
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Updates from the cave where I’m hiding - Some combination of way too much work, too much travel, and too few hours in the day has made me neglect this little nook of the Internet. Sorry for that....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...4 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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Microblogging, the experiment - Recently found out that while I was busy neglecting this blog, it sort of died - literally. The domain name expired and somehow I had been kicked off of b...
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The Anatomy of Corruption in Public Procurement - Public procurement presents significant risk under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Cases like Siemens Argentina, Siemens Venezuela, Johnson ...1 month ago
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Why You Should Keep An Eye on the Northern Nigeria - Yes, our eyes are trained on the soap opera of the fuel subsidy protests and the re-invigoration of Nigerian civil society, but we should all be very worri...1 month ago
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Poverty and petrol - When historical data of petrol prices in Nigeria is plotted against the national poverty rate, you get an interesting trend result! See graph.1 month ago
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NIGERIA'S FUEL SUBSIDY DILLEMA - On January 1st, 2012, the Nigerian government revoked a fuel subsidy Nigerians had benefited from for decades. Many citizens consider the subsidy the onl...1 month ago
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Beyond transactions and allocation of subsidy. The economics of value - Long time and New years if you still check this place out. It seems that our government has chosen to handle a profound change from the manual on how to sc...1 month 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...1 month 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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Do Christians Have a Moral Compass? - Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction - Blaise Pascal Most of us would express horror at the sight of...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 ...8 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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Aid Watch blog ends; New work on development begins - Today, after two years and four months, we end the experiment that was the Aid Watch blog. We think the experiment was a success. We’ve had a great time ...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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FDI is a global force, but is it a force for good? - Over the past decade foreign direct investment (FDI) has become a major force in developing and transition economies. In 2010 the volume of FDI to developi...11 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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Stepping Down as Ushahidi Executive Director - It is almost 3 years to the day that I sent out a plea to Kenyan bloggers and techies to help me build what would become Ushahidi. Since then it has been a...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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Episode 1: 15 years of not getting justice - As part of the 15th anniversary of the execution of the Ogoni nine, Remember Saro-Wiwa has produced a series of interviews with leading human rights defend...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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Overcoming Nigeria’s water woes - By Joachim Ezeji The 2010 edition of the National Council on Water Resources recently held in Abuja, Nigeria. I have had the privileged of being persona...1 year ago
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The Future of African Science Fiction - AfroCyberPunk has now moved to a permanent home at http://www.afrocyberpunk.com. Welcome to Africa. You are not where you think you are. You are not on a s...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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'Saymama For Tae' - Check out the first ever 'Saymama for Tae' line - one of Nigeria's most hardworking and creative talent in the burgeoning world of fashion design in the coun...
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Weekend Infotainment: George Soros FT Lectures - Mr Soros provides fantastic insight into global currencies, the renminbi peg, the great crisis, financial sector reform etc in these conversations with Chr...2 years ago
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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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Innovation: What is it? - Innovation is the ability to transform a virgin or an existing idea to enterprise such that the financial outcome is relatively substantial over the cost o...2 years ago
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Infant mortality rates in Africa will increase by 30,000-50,000 - Girls will fare worse - The impact of the global financial crisis on infant mortality is a topic of great policy importance. However, estimates of the likely impacts of the cris...2 years ago
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Symposium on Corruption & Human Rights Holds in Buea - By Roland Mbonteh (Originally published in Eden Newspaper) Professor Kofele-Kale Wants Corruption Elevated to an International Crime. The distinguished Profe...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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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...2 years ago
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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 ...2 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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