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Jon Matonis writing in Forbes:
All kind of vibrant economic activity is occurring in this informal economy, which in some regions is between 20-60% of GDP or more, and every economy needs a currency. Essentially, bitcoin is the 'System D' of currencies -- global, decentralized, and non-state sanctioned. It is still early days but as bitcoin bypasses traditional banking and financial institutions, it is a currency off the grid just as System D. To deny the existence of System D is to deny the fact that economic participants find ways to survive even during prolonged times of hardship. According to Neuwirth "it asserts an important truth: what happens in all the unregistered markets and roadside kiosks of the world is not simply haphazard. It is a product of intelligence, resilience, ...
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Another case of the blind copying of models without the necessary environmental and socioeconomic adaptations. Faustin Moukala writing in Future Cities:
Planning "new cities" in Africa has become a real business for developers. Six months ago, I wrote optimistically about this, but I now realize my optimism was premature.
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From CineKenya An animation by Anna Cady:
30% Women & Politics in Sierra Leone - clips from Em Cooper on Vimeo.
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RWUL presents: "I Luv Africa" Film Festival:
...in partnership with the Attukwei Art Foundation and the Goethe-Institut of Ghana. RWUL has successfully run for over three years the "I Luv Africa" Film Series in the US, and now will bring a film festival bearing the same name to Ghana! This annual presentation of RWUL Presents: "I Luv Africa" Film Festival in Ghana will take celebrate the work of African independent filmmakers, with this year's theme: "Young Africa; Just Press Play"--a special showcase of young African independent filmmakers.
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Ijeoma Ekoh writing in Bella Naija:
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George Ayittey writing in Fair Observer:
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Roman Grynberg in the Mail and Guardian:
Africa must disregard outsiders' self-serving advice about managing its natural resources
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A paper by James Tar Tsaaior:
...engages Nigerian oral poetry and its inscription in digital processes using new media technologies. In particular, it negotiates the trajectory of transforming primary orality to secondary and tertiary orality through which oral performances like songshave acquired new modes of existence and meanings by way of recordings and digitalization using the new media. Many of these poetic forms have travelled through historical time to the postmodern moment as migrant metaphors and have become stored in digital forms thus makingthem new wine though preserved in the old wineskins of the poets and new media processes.More here
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In the field of astronomy:
Cultural astronomy focuses on the many ways that people and cultures interact with celestial bodies and celestial events. More familiar names for cultural astronomy are ethnoastronomy, indigenous, endogenous, traditional or folk astronomy. Like ancient people everywhere, Africans wondered at the sky and struggled to make sense of it. The cultural astronomy of Africans is rich with mythical figures, cosmology and cosmogony, and divination methods that use observations of celestial bodies. African cultural astronomy entwines with religious beliefs and practices, agriculture, artistic mediums, folklore, and social hierarchies. Africans use celestial bodies for practical purposes. Africans use the positions of stars for navigating at night. They observe the Sun and ...
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