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Genital retraction syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A little background information on the "penis snatchers" of Congo and elsewhere. From the article: "Medical response generally consists of informing patients that the genitals anatomicall...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic
Kenyans Rejoice in Obama Victory - washingtonpost.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110501854.html
Portal Afro
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http://www.portalafro.com.br
Nicholas Kristof, "Can This Be Pro-Life? (op-ed)," New York Times (Oct. 8, 2008) - on the Bush administration's defunding of African family-planning clinics
Kristof is outraged that the Bush administration has undercut the efforts of the Marie Stopes International aid group to provide contraception to poor women in rural Africa, pointing out ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/opinion/09kristof.html?ex=1381291200&en=6049b149886b2034&e...
The HinzSight Report - Citizen Journalism In Action
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http://www.hinzsightreport.com/2008/05/william-ayres-la-educacion-es.html
Eleven dead in Congo football riot after use of 'witchcraft' - Telegraph
"Nyuki football club was losing to its local rivals Socozaki in Sunday's game when the club's goalkeeper decided to intervene. Radio Okapi, a local broadcaster funded by the United Nation...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/296...
Miriam Makeba, "Soweto Blues" (comp. Hugh Masekela), from Welela (1988)
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http://www.movingtoafrica.com/blog/music/songs/songs3/Soweto_Blues.mp3
Business Directory - Economics, Import and Export, Investment
AllBrowse.com is a comprehensive business directory providing numerous links to browse for business information, trade, export, import, investment, franchise oppotunities, companies, indu...
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http://www.allbrowse.com
Lions Blocking the Road
my video
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2glMAGlMw
AfriGadget
AfriGadget is a website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. A team of bloggers and readers contribute their pictures, videos and stories from around the continent. The stories of i...
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http://www.afrigadget.com
Batonga
Batonga is giving girls a secondary school and higher education so they can take the lead in changing Africa. We are doing this by granting scholarships, building secondary schools, incre...
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http://www.batongafoundation.org
Solar Power From Africa: The Best Investment the EU Can Make | SolveClimate.com
For an investment of $400 billion over 30 years, Desertec could eventually power Europe plus two-thirds of the MENA countries by 2050, while dramatically cutting C02 emissions and phasing...
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http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080421/solar-power-africa-best-investment-eu-can-make
Tinariwen, "Amassakoul 'N' Ténéré," from Amassakoul (World Village, 2004)
One of the greatest songs I've ever heard in my life.
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http://znamenny.com/mali_3.mp3
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
The secret of Malawi’s success: heavy subsidies for fertilizer, farmers say. The World Bank had pressed for their elimination
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/world/africa/02malawi.html?ex=1354770000&en=8db461899c2515...
Technology Review: Green Revolutionary
Four decades ago, Norman E. Borlaug developed a wheat variety that fed the world. Now he's battling a pathogen whose spread could cause starvation.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19871
BBC NEWS | Africa | China in Africa: Friend or foe?
China's gifts to modern-day Africa will soon include a gleaming new conference centre at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa - a symbol of Beijing's commitment to African...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7086777.stm
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'
Past lessons have shown that many Africans are entrepreneurial enough to develop their own services and solutions once a technology arrives.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6986804.stm
Welcome to Mukuru.com | Connecting Africa Now
You pay Mukuru.com for products and services that we ensure get delivered to the Zimbabwean / South African recipient through our network of local agents.
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http://www.mukuru.com
Paul Collier: Home page
Areas of activity: governance in low-income countries, especially the political economy of democracy, economic growth in Africa, economics of civil war, aid, globalisation and poverty.
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http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco
The West Can't Save Africa
Economic development in Africa will depend -- as it has elsewhere and throughout the history of the modern world -- on the success of private-sector entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs an...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021201150.html
How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa - The New York Review of Books
Just read The Invisible Cure. If you do, you will be mortified that such an epic tragedy has found so few heroes and so many opportunists and bumblers.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20492
A Modest Proposal (washingtonpost.com)
Yes, do read Sachs's eloquent descriptions of poverty and his compelling ethical case for the rich to help the poor. Just say no to the Big Plan.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25562-2005Mar10.html
Jeffrey Sachs: How I'd fix the World Bank - Jun. 26, 2007
The core problem in Africa is not corruption but the lack of basic infrastructure and services. Like all poor regions (and rich nations like the U.S.), Africa has its corruption problems,...
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/25/news/economy/sachs_worldbank.fortune/?postversion=2007062606
What Bono doesn't say about Africa - Los Angeles Times
Africans are and will be escaping poverty the same way everybody else did: through the efforts of resourceful entrepreneurs, democratic reformers and ordinary citizens at home, not throug...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-easterly6jul06,0,6188154.story?coll=la-opinion-rig...
Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
Jeffrey Sachs—visionary economist, savior of Bolivia, Poland, and other struggling nations, adviser to the U.N. and movie stars—won't settle for less than the global eradication of ex...
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/07/sachs200707
Africans to Bono: 'For God's sake please stop!' — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
Aid not only crowds out local entrepreneurship, it makes governments lazy and deprives countries of the incentive to build effective institutions.
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http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-0707/africans-to-bono-for-gods-sake-please-stop
Can Greed Save Africa?
like bees to honey, investors are swarming into the region in search of the enormous returns that ultra-early-stage investments can bring.
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_50/b4062046700574.htm
Africa Wants Opportunities, Not Handouts
For the first time in decades, the African clouds are beginning to part, and it is becoming possible to see our way clear to a far more promising economic, societal, and environmental fut...
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2008/gb2008019_747640.htm
Safaricom m-pesa - Home
M-PESA is a new Safaricom service allowing you to transfer money using a mobile phone.
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http://www.safaricom.co.ke/m-pesa
Technology and development | The limits of leapfrogging | Economist.com
a country's capacity to absorb and benefit from new technology depends on the availability of more basic forms of infrastructure.
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http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10650775&CFID=11954994&CFTOKEN=b8...
The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Africa's Niger
Cell phones reduce grain price dispersion across markets [...] and reduce intra-annual price variation [...]. Cell phones have a greater impact on price dispersion for market pairs that a...
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http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29361.php
Global wind power at 80 m
Since relatively few observations are available at 80 m, the Least Square extrapolation technique is utilized and revised here to obtain estimates of wind speeds at 80 m given observed wi...
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/winds/global_winds.html
MIGA || Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency || Political Risk Insurance
Key services: political risk insurance , technical assistance to improve investment climates and promote investment opportunities, and dispute mediation services
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http://www.miga.org
Comments on Norwegian Development Strategy - regjeringen.no
What conditions need to be fulfilled for development assistance to be effective? What are, in your view, the most important insights gained from debates in recent years? I structure my an...
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http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/ud/kampanjer/refleks/innspill/engasjement/collier.html?id=4...
…My heart’s in Accra » TED2008: Paul Collier - Compassion and enlightened self-interest
Collier tells us that “unless we have an informed society, politicans will get away with gestures.” To build an informed citizenry, Collier “broke all the professional rules and wro...
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http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/03/01/ted2008-paul-collier-compassion-and-enlightene...
AFRICA FLIRT - free african dating site and portal
AFRICA FLIRT is a popular dating site in Africa. The site is 100% free and offers a full set of easy to use dating features.
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http://www.africaflirt.com
Afrigator Home
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http://beta.afrigator.com
Nigerian Christians Burn Corpses
Suggestive and gruesome account of a Christian massacre of Muslims in the southern part of Nigeria. In photo: graffito reads "Mohammad is a man but Jesus is from above."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022300647.html
Amassakoul -- Tinariwen
Incredible clip from Tinariwen, a Touareg "desert blues" band.
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http://mali-music.com/music_mp3/mp3T/TinariwenAmakassoul.mp3
Hugh Masekela - Hope (Grazing in the Grass)
Masekela's usual exuberance. A short (2:41) clip from a great song.
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http://www.ladyo.net/01%20Grazing%20In%20The%20Grass%20Hugh%20Masekela%20Greatest%20Hits%20%...
Postal Workers Canceling Stamps At The University Of Ghana Post Office
A live recording of Ghanian postal workers at work. Fast, rhythmic percussive sounds and whistling ... very cool to listen to.
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http://www.aurgasm.us/tracks/Postal%20Workers%20Canceling%20Stamps%20At%20The%20University%2...
Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy (Expensive Shit, Ed. Makossa, 1975)
Long, smooth, Afro-funk groove.
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http://o-dub.com/sounds/soulsides/water.mp3