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There was a dinner last week in Nairobi to toast James Mwangi the CEO of Equity Bank who won the second edition of the Forbes Africa Person of the year award (edging out President Joyce Banda of Malawi, Stephen Saad, Aliko Dangote & Tony Elumelu. In capping off this award-winning year for him, he spoke about the need for Africans, and particularly Kenyans to celebrate wealth and success not to be shy & hide about it.
This has been something that Ory (@kenyanpundit) has spoken of the in the past and a reason that there are few interesting award events to attend - as you keep seeing the same people & companies over and over being feted or speaking at events over and over -as if they are the only entrepreneurs in town. Yet it if you look at the construction that the construction that's ...
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The Oxford University China Africa Network hosted on 9 November 2012 a conference on "New Trends in African Media: The Growing Role of China."
Iginio Gagliardone and Harry Verhoeven prepared a brief conference report that pointed out speakers and audience members underscored China's intentions to cast Africa and Africans in a more positive light. Other participants questioned the motives behind the spectacular expansion of CCTV and Xinhua News Agency, suggesting the effort may constitute a propaganda offensive.
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More details about the lives lost to gun violence since the Connecticut school shooting that President Obama discussed Wednesday.
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From Kickstarter:
ONE DAY I TOO GO FLY is a feature-length documentary following 5 African students who've come to the United States to begin studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These students hail from Rwanda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Our documentary will follow them through their entire undergraduate careers.via Shadow and Act
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Miss Ethiopia Helen Getachew Photo By Matt BrownThe 2012 Miss Universe Competition airs tonight on NBC at 8 p.m. Representing Ethiopia in the big stage is Miss Ethiopia Helen Getachew.
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Of course there are black independent filmmakers all over the country from coast to coast, including Chicago. In fact Chicago has a long history of black cinema. The first black films ever made, were made in Chicago by William Foster, such as The Railroad Porter (1912), The Fall Guy, The Maid and The Butler (all 1913) ; and there was Oscar Michaeux who first established his production company in Chicago and made his first early films there, before moving on to New York. He returned to Chicago to make his last film in 1948, The Betrayal, which was a three-hour remake of his first film The Homesteader. I tell you this history lesson because, 1) you ought to know it,...
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Ethiopia gets first textile chemicals & dyestuff warehouseSource: fibre2fashion.comGeneva-based Bezema Dyes and Chemicals has unveiled first of its kind textile chemicals & dyestuff bonded warehouse in Ethiopia to facilitate country-wide...
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Made In Ethiopia clutch bags get rave reviews in Glamour Magazine Laurel Pantin, the associate shopping and accessories editor for Glamour magazine, knows a thing or two about fashion. Writing for the fashion magazine Glamour, she has some nice thing...
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The Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford published in August 2012 a study titled "The Rise and Fall of (Chinese) African Apparel Exports." Written by Lorenzo Rotunno, Pierre-Louis Vezina and Zheng Wang, it explained that during the final years of the Multifiber Agreement the United States imposed strict import quotas on Chinese apparel while it gave African apparel duty- and quota-free access. The combination of these policies led to a rapid but ephemeral rise of African exports.
The authors concluded that the success by African textile exports was due to a temporary transshipment of Chinese apparel driven by quota-hopping Chinese assembly firms. Direct transhipment accounted for about half of the apparel exports to the United States under the African Growth and ...
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The first thing I thought of when I read about this was, another documentary we featured on this site earlier this year - RE-EMERGING: The Jews of Nigeria, which documents the lives of Igbo people who have embraced Judaism as a part of their legacy, and who believe Igbos are really descendants of Israelites. And now, from Toronto-based director Gabrielle Zilkha comes The Jews of Ghana: From the Four Corners of the Earth, which follows a remote Ghanaian community known as the Sefwis, who have been practicing Judaism for centuries, and who only recently (over the last 20 years) learn that they weren't alone, with millions of people around the world also following the...
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From Kickstarter:
ONE DAY I TOO GO FLY is a feature-length documentary following 5 African students who've come to the United States to begin studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These students hail from Rwanda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Our documentary will follow them through their entire undergraduate careers.via Shadow and Act
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Barack Obama proved formidable as a campaigner but what will his legacy be as president? Also in 2012, France renews with a Socialist president while the understated Mohamed Morsi surprises friends and foes alike in Egypt.
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Barack Obama proved formidable as a campaigner but what will his legacy be as president? Also in 2012, France renews with a Socialist president while the understated Mohamed Morsi surprises friends and foes alike in Egypt.
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At the African National Congress party convention in South Africa on December 18, Cyril Ramaphosa became deputy party leader with...
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Editor's Note: Student leader Bennett Collins spearheaded the St Andrews University chapter of Raise Hope for Congo's Conflict-Free Campus Initiative. In this guest post he reflects on the past year of action.
As 2012 comes to a close, it is difficult to believe that one year ago, the conflict-free movement had yet to make its debut in the United Kingdom, let alone Europe. When I started the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative at the University of St Andrews in December 2011, I never thought that the Coalition for a Conflict-free St Andrews would mobilize Great Britain's first university to be the first to pass a conflict-free resolution. Since then, the conflict-free movement has reached the cities of Exeter, Glasgow, and London, and now, a year later, we have gained enough momentum to start ...
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Let's say you're the son of a very wealthy political leader, from a country that was fighting a long war for independence in the 1970s (remember, that war that's been reduced to a subplot in a video game). Your father just offered to bail out its former colonial power. It might not have been a [...]
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