Archive for May, 2012

A View of Ubuntu
Travel

A View of Ubuntu

Just come from long quiet days in a game drive truck, the silent observer in me was still in service. So my instinctive choice of a seat next to a large white column that offered some cover made sense, allowing me to gaze at the crowd without being noticed.

Bismillah! Food and Drink in Mauritania
Travel

Bismillah! Food and Drink in Mauritania

Mauritania is home to a diversified dining scene with dishes influenced by several of its neighboring countries. Most traditional Mauritanian meals are served in communal fashion, where diners gather around a steaming dish to eat with their hands.

Current Events

Charles Taylor, Former Liberian Leader, Convicted to a 50-Year Sentence

Some of history’s most brutal and twisted murders took place during Sierra Leone’s lengthy civil war, which lasted from 1991 to 2002. As the former president of neighboring Liberia and a proponent of civil war in Sierra Leone, Charles Taylor was convicted of crimes against humanity and of war crimes.

Social Enterprise & Philanthropy

Mobile Applications: A Weapon Against Violence

The bloody aftermath of Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence left victims, observers, and participants with a lingering feeling of horror and an instinctual “what just happened?”" reaction. Initially

News

Panla Presents "A Taste of Africa Event Series"

Panla’s “A Taste of Africa Event Series”" started as a way to bring people from all walks of life together. The idea was to bring people from various parts of the world together and celebrate pan-African culture with food

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s Hidden Journeys: Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg
Travel

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s Hidden Journeys: Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg

Millions of people fly every year completely unaware of the fascinating parts of the world they fly over. The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) aims to change this with the Hidden Journeys Project.

African Development: So Much More Than Oil
Business & Finance

African Development: So Much More Than Oil

Sub-Saharan Africa has attracted a growing wave of media attention over the last two years, and with this attention, an inaccurate narrative has formed that has influenced discourse.

African Fashion
Arts & Culture

African Fashion

African Youth Journals is a blog written by students currently enrolled in the African Leadership Academy in Honeydew, South Africa. In this post, student Jessica Muganza of Rwanda writes about African fashion and what it will take to make African fashion a global cultural movement.

In Tanzania, What Love Looks Like
Social Enterprise & Philanthropy

In Tanzania, What Love Looks Like

To get to Ndemno’s house and to the Matonyok School Project, we turn north off the single tarmac Moshi road in Arusha and 4-wheel-drive it 20 minutes out of town north towards the foothills of Mt. Meru.

Business & Finance

Council on Foreign Relations: The State of Nigeria′s Economy

Originally posted on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations, former ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, writes about Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and how the country’s economy is affected by recent turmoil in the north.