Added on 01 February 2010
08 February 2010
George Ayittey is a professor of economics at the American University in Washington D.C. He is from Ghana and champions the idea that since independence, Africa’s leaders have been deterrents of change whose main goal has been to maintain the status quo of the colonized countries handed to them as a way to keep money [...]
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30 January 2010
New York Times Article – Nice Example of how the Intent of the Message can be easily lost. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Published: January 27, 2010 “I KNOW there is nothing a white person can say to a black person about race which is not both incorrect and offensive,” James Spader’s hard-driving lawyer says in the new David [...]
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24 January 2010
"I had planned to visit Nigeria in the summer, before film school would start. Unfortunately, like all human plans, mine didn’t quite materialize the way I wanted it to." Tolu talks about moving back to Nigeria.
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18 January 2010
Patrick Awuah talks to us about leaving America, starting a University and confronting corruption in his student body. [Audio interview]
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18 January 2010
photo: Jos Main Market. Courtesy PlateauStateGov.org. Jos, the city I grew up in, is fighting. Again. No one is sure why the fighting started and already, 149 people have died. One story says the fighting started when residents opposed the rebuilding of a Mosque that had been destroyed in the 2008 riots. Another report says angry [...]
07 January 2010
It's times like these that we need to hunker down and get to work on making our home a place that isn't so easy to ridicule. What's your role in moving your country off the so-poor-and-dysfunctional-it's-easy-to-ignore-them list?
30 December 2009
There’s an Igbo proverb that says, “If one finger touches palm oil, it spreads to all the other fingers.” This is indicative of how Nigerians the world over felt when they heard the news of a young man who attempted to detonate a bomb on U.S. soil in the name of Al Qaeda. Many of [...]
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26 December 2009
The older Mutallab was said to be devastated on hearing the news of Abdul Farouk's attempted bombing and arrest. A source close to him said he was surprised that after his reports to the US authorities, the young man was allowed to travel to the United States.
26 December 2009
The Sahara Desert is creeping south by as much as 10 miles (16km) a year, causing increased competition between rival groups for access to land. OUR THOUGHTS: Sustainable environmental practices in already developed economies is not an option for Africans and Africionados.
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20 December 2009
He’d worked in Boston for over twenty years before returning to start a business in Ethiopia. Here's his story...
Q&A with African economist George Ayittey
Ory Okolloh – activist, lawyer, mother – speaks on education in Africa
Are Our Stories Lost In Entertainment?
Returning to Nigeria: Q&A with Tolu Itegboje
Patrick Awuah, Founder, Ghana’s Ashesi University
Start asking questions
The OSK Project
Now more than ever
Palm Oil Terrorism
Father Warned US Authorities of Terror Suspect.
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