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Brain gain: Skilled diaspora return to Africa
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After Tomi Adegoke completed a Master's degree in Public Health from a university in the United States of America (USA), she decided to move to Nigeria, the country from which her parents had emigrated ...
Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Journalism in Africa - Ex, Former, Retired or Aspirants?
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... leadership and its diverse progress. It is critical that we guard against, as Chief Emeka Anyaoku from Nigeria said "the media creating a sense of otherness"; a media that has more of a polarizing effect ...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
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Black Stars: Carrying the hope of a continent
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... Africa, Algeria, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon were all eliminated in the first round of the tournament, leaving the Black Stars as the only team in the tournament to represent the continent. "It's ...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Could aid squeeze help Africa?
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... such countries should be able to raise foreign cash on a scale way beyond domestic borrowing limits. According to analysts, Angola, which rivals Nigeria as Africa's biggest oil producer, is likely to ...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Africa's booming tech space will define the continent's future
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... growth since 2000. Nigeria is by far the largest connected market with 24 million users online. South Africa just crossed the 5 million mark. In true leap frogging style so common here in Africa, the trend ...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
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Why Africa needs science, and science needs women
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... from South Africa, Nonhlanhla Mkhize from Swaziland and Ndidi Ngwuluka from Nigeria. Although these women have achieved success and recognition for the research they have done, they are by no means strangers ...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
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Riders saving lives in Lesotho
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... is the official charity of the Grand Prix motorbike championship, or MotoGP. The organisation operates in Gambia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Lesotho, with projects completed in Ghana, Democratic ...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
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Blood Brothers: the emergence of Brazil & Africa
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... the Brazilian bloodline to such a degree that the Latin power is now home to the second largest black population in the world, outside of Nigeria. In fact, 90 million people within its population of 198 ...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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Aid from the needy: Africa's support of Haiti
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... Congo and Namibia are also each pledging $1 million in funding. The Government of Lagos State and the Christ Embassy Church in Nigeria have each pledged $1 million in support. While Nigeria's 121-strong ...
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
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Painting a new country
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In December 2009 a group of Nigerian volunteers took to the streets of a notorious, overcrowded Lagos slum armed with brushes and paint to give the area a much needed facelift. The "Mushin Makeover" saw ...
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
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Davos Special Report: Africa rising
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... government, and the prolonged ill-health of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has created a troubling power vacuum in Africa's most alluring frontier market. But after the implosion of such supposedly ...
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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2009: a good year
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... for Chinese Studies, African growth in 2009 came almost exclusively off the back of deals with China. The proof is in the pudding with Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Congo Republic ...
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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Leadership, the media and Africa
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... media can, and will, play a proactive role in shaping the future of this beautiful continent. Conclusion The words of Chief Anyaoku, of Nigeria, ring so very true and therefore deserve to be quoted in ...
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
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Thoughts on the African media landscape
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I was fortunate enough to attend a conference in Johannesburg earlier this year, at which Dele Olojede, head of Timbuktu Media in Nigeria, was one of the speakers. Olojede told a story about a challenge ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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Building Africa BRIC by BRIC: a new trade era
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... countries. "A decade ago, Nigeria for example, wouldn't have had an option if they had five new oil blocks up for tender, they would invariably have gone to a Western institution and the price would ...
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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The Good News - why do we do this?
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... continent. You may have recently read the newsletters I wrote on my visits to Colombia and Nigeria. I'll pick it up from there... "Good news in Nigeria, is there any?" was the incredulous response to ...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
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Nigeria - The Good News?
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The growling drone of a generator reminds me, as I write of my visit to Lagos, Nigeria, that I am in a city where electricity supply barely exists, and that my hotel could not function without it. I have ...
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
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China in Africa: Is the continent being re-colonised?
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... foreign investment. The Nigerian government has been particularly savvy in exploiting this opportunity by pitting traditional investors in the oil sector from the U.K, France and North America against ...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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Warriors, and warriors in waiting
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... benefits for communities across Africa. Yet the potential of women as agents of change in Africa has not yet been fully realised. As Amina Mama, Nigerian gender specialist and Chair of the African Gender ...
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
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African heroes
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... as a way of healing the wounds of war. Sirleaf is fondly called the "Iron Lady" by her supporters. A man of many words He was born in 1934, in the city of Abeokuta, in south-western Nigeria, a country ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
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