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Follow the activities of Rantya School in Jos, which now has a blog. The school's Headmaster is a very nice French chap called Thomas. Rantya School works hard to provide high quality affordable education for kids in Plateau State.. [view entry]
The new Funmi Iyanda show, Talk with Funmi, starts in January. I've just seen the preview DVD. Its just brilliant. Funmi spends the whole time out and about meeting larger than life characters. Whether its learning tricks from highly flexible dancers in AJ City, absorbing the eccentric exuberance that is... [view entry]
We spend a lot of time thinking about book covers at Cassava Republic. Its therefore very gratifying to read about when others appreciate our efforts, such as here, on the excellent Design Nigeria blog. In Dependence was designed by Lynn Hatzius. [view entry]
Massive congratulations to Petina Gappah for winning the Guardian First Book Award yesterday for her fantastic collection of short stories, An Elegy for Easterly. Go buy it! [view entry]
08 Ticket To Know Where Feat. Ohm by user6462109 [view entry]
Beautifying Lagos, One Street at a Time. Nice website for the Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency. [view entry]
The Candy brothers, perhaps the most notorious property developers in the UK (they're based in Monaco - say no more), want to bring Prince Charles to court to explain how he buggered up their plans for renovating Chelsea barracks. How come I missed the news earlier this year that they... [view entry]
Exhibition/book at the Trolley Gallery in London (E2) on the Gentlemen of Bacongo - the so called Sapeurs. Today is the last day so stop what you are doing and get there.Click here and here to read reviews of the book/show and here to buy the book. [view entry]
I posted about the expense of sanitary towels forcing adolescent girls out of school in Uganda recently. Afripads is a good response to this - a sustainable and affordable product aimed at schoolgirls in rural Africa. [view entry]
