Africa.com′s Top 10: General News and Business and Finance
What’s happening in the worlds of news and finance on the continent? Africa.com’s editors have scoured the web for the most up-to-date and relevant headlines from across Africa.
Archive for March, 2012
Current Events
Current Events
Kladogo: Amid Unrest in Kampala, Life Goes On
A man wearing a khaki uniform appears. He’s holding a stick that he uses to abruptly wake each kid from his peaceful slumber. Their eyes open lazily. “Go away from here,” he bellows. One by one, they slowly begin standing up, stretching their arms to the sky, with mile-wide yawns. The grass blades left marks on their faces and arms.
Travel
The Attraction of Cloth
My travel consultant asked me to make a list of all the things I wanted to do on my trip to South Africa. This set me to dreaming and soon, I had a long list of possibilities. Near the top were textiles, right up there with the Big Five—elephants and leopards and all.
Arts & Culture
The Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project: Now Live
The life and history of Nelson Mandela, from his early life to his many great accomplishments as president of South Africa, are being memorialized in the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project.
Business & Finance
What Africa′s Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World
Originally published on the website of the Harvard Business Review, Bright B. Simons takes an in-depth look at entrepreneurs operating in Africa right now and what categories they fall into.
Commentary
Dispatch From Tanzania: Faith
My faith has always been unconventional. I have never been able to fit myself into the box of any church or organized religion. Messages that ring true to me come from all over—Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, new age spirituality, indigenous beliefs, lakes, mountains, the sea, dreams, and beyond. But just recently, in Tanzania, for me, the Divine became real.
News
This Wednesday, Afro Jam: Featuring Damien Richards, Louise Browne, and Facing Stories
Afro Jam features showcases by local and national artists, from comedians, poets, singers, and others. We encourage both up-coming and established artists, who want to share their creativity with us every Wednesday night after work.
Commentary
Look Into the Mirror of Africa
When you were younger, did you ever have a moment in which you not only analyzed your appearance, but you also compared it to those around you? I often did this as a young child as I sought to understand who I was and my identity.
Business & Finance
The New Business of Africa: Markets and People Transforming the Continent
International CEOs who have not recently revised their appraisal of Africa would be well served to do so, and quickly. There is an unprecedented transformation occurring across the continent rendering years of economic assessment all but obsolete.
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