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Africa = China = India
Why the “dark continent” is set to shine as brightly as Chindia.
The biggest economic story of the last decade has been the rise of the developing world, led by powerhouse Asian economies like China, India, and smaller countries like Thailand and Malaysia.
Nigeria’s N40bn Satellite Missing from Orbit
The Nigerian Commun-ications Satellite (NigComSat), which was launched into orbit over 18 months ago, is said to be missing.
THISDAY gathered last night that with the satellite missing from orbit, the huge amount spent by the Nigerian government, about N40 billion may have gone down the drain.
The satellite was found to have run into a technical hitch for some weeks now, according to a source, when it was discovered that it was using a technological standard that was not meant for Africa but Asia.
Miriam Makeba was Like Fela Kuti, Says NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday joined the world to mourn the death of the foremost African music icon, Miriam Makeba.
NLC in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Mr. John Odah, likened Makeba to Nigeria’s own Fela Anikulapo Kuti who through their music crusaded for the liberation of the downtrodden by oppressive governments.
Mandela mourns icon Miriam Makeba
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has paid tribute to singing legend Miriam Makeba, who has died aged 76 after a concert in Italy.
She was the "mother of our struggle" and "South Africa's first lady of song", Mr Mandela said.
Makeba became a symbol of the fight against apartheid and spent three decades abroad after South Africa's government revoked her passport.
Obama wins historic US election
Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States.
"It's been a long time coming, but tonight... change has come to America," the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a victory rally in Chicago.
Racial Barrier Falls as Obama Wins Election
Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive. Mr. Obama’s election amounted to a national catharsis — a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Mr. Obama’s call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country. But it was just as much a strikingly symbolic moment in the evolution of the nation’s fraught racial history, a breakthrough that would have seemed unthinkable just two years ago.
Women of Jazz
Putumayo’s latest release, Women of Jazz, showcases the originality and artistry of 10 exceptional female vocalists from North America. This collection offers extraordinary artists from several eras – legends who have inspired today’s generation, stars of the contemporary jazz world and young women just now starting to make their mark on jazz history. Women of Jazz captures the depth and diversity of the female jazz experience.
Women of Jazz includes original songs alongside classic 1920s ballads and Broadway show tunes. A true reflection of the creativity of today’s female jazz artists, their songs often combine jazz with unexpected influences such as rhythm and blues and country ballads.
A slippery snapshot
A Nigerian oil company gave away free copies of Duncan Clarke's book Crude Continent at a conference in Cape Town earlier this month. The conference, organised by Clarke's company -- Global Pacific & Partners -- was a big industry schmooze fest for anybody interested in Africa's oil industry.
Crude Continent is part sales pitch, part history book. It's a combination of personal perceptions of Africa and dry facts about the oil industry, written by a man who could be referred to as the archival memory of Africa's oil business.
Africa's anti-desert 'green wall' starts small in Senegal
The idea was simple, ambitious and eye-catching: to counter the threat of creeping desertification in Africa through a Great Green Wall of trees spanning the continent from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the east.
It would be 7 000km long, and seek to halt or reverse the encroachment of deserts threatening the livelihoods of tens of millions. Some estimates say up to a third of Africa's surface area is at risk.
'Well-run' Moz to avoid worst of crisis
Maputo - The international financial crisis is unlikely to lead to a significant fall-off in foreign aid and investment in Mozambique because it is well-governed, a senior US diplomat told a press conference in the capital Maputo Monday.
Todd Chapman, business affairs officer at the US Embassy in Maputo said Mozambique stood to receive "much more financial support" because of its stable business environment and the commitment of President Armando Guebuza's government to reform.
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