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		<title>Africa United</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/861</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyeyinka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can think of four times in the fifty year or so history of post-colonial Africa in which the continent had one voice, and the same couple of countries – Ghana and South Africa – were the instigators. First with Ghana being the first country to gain independence in Africa in the late fifties. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The African Market</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/850</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyeyinka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the more standout features of the African marketplace have the distinct dual pleasure of being its greatest attractions and possible hindrances. I am referring to taxes – or lack thereof, and bargaining – or license to boycott goods control.
I was in the Masai market in Nairobi the other day and the price of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educating Us</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/816</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 17:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyeyinka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often we get young entrepreneurs with charitable hearts eager to help Africa. Unfortunately, they often forget the basics. Such as a school without quality teachers is simply a building; a classroom without adequate textbooks is merely a room full of children.
These charities erecting buildings make it easy to forget the essential problem – unequal access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start-ups for Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/789</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyeyinka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Litan, director of research at Kauffman Foundation – a firm that specializes in promoting innovation in America said, “Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net new jobs created in the U.S. were created by firms that were 5 years old or less”. “That is about 40 million jobs. That means the established firms created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afro Train</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/775</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyeyinka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pan-Africanism has been whispered and then shouted the world over as a solution to Africa’s ills and a refuge for blacks the world over. However, I am hesitant to join this bandwagon especially when Ghaddafi, who just called for Nigeria to be split into two, is its current champion.
There is no doubt we need a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s really the little things that count the most.</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/519</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahanam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a saying in Nigeria that goes:  better soup, na money do am &#8211; which essentially means that money equals quality. I don&#8217;t think so.
In my first week home, I&#8217;m realizing that it&#8217;s not as if I was wary  of returning because things would suck. My main fear boils down to one  thing: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nigerian vs. The American Classroom</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/583</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahanam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Call it culture shock but I was in a daze here for the first few days of getting into the American classroom! It was not the blackboards or the nice seats..." Tomi Lamikanra writes about her first days coming from university in Nigeria to graduate school in America.]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with African economist George Ayittey</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/580</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahanam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ory Okolloh &#8211; activist, lawyer, mother &#8211; speaks on education in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/561</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahanam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She stands at about 5-feet 10-inches and wears her hair the only way a female African activist does - curly and natural. This is an excerpt of a longer interview in which she discusses where education in Africa is failing its people.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Our Stories Lost In Entertainment?</title>
		<link>http://www.solvingafrica.org/archives/548</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dogonyaro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Article &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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