– Text by Joseph Quaye Amoo, freelance development journalist and youth activist from Accra, Ghana. This pothole made my week. The pothole in the picture is in front of an entrance to a village near Koforidua. The young men of the village volunteered to fill it up because they saw the potential danger it could…
Press Release AMPION – Berlin/Harare 06/11/2014 Southern African Venture Bus destined for AfricaCom next week HaltEbola pitch wins West Africa AMPION Venture Bus competition, the app facilitates public education on Ebola and other diseases HaltEbola to be rewarded by Microsoft and AMPION with software and training worth 10000€ South African Venture Bus starting on Friday, headed for…
Africa’s computer gaming sector is still tiny but it is beginning to grow. Until recently, it has had almost no public profile. This is about to change in West Africa with a new event in Lagos called West African Gaming Expo 2014 (WAGE 2014). Russell Southwood spoke to the man behind the event Adedoyin Ogundoyin…
Blacks and Science Volume Two: West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology & Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu Published on October 16, 2013 | Written by Mr Robin Walker (Author) Did YOU know any of the following facts? The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today’s Cameroon, has 7,000 surviving manuscripts in their own script Timbuktu astronomers…
– sponsored by MTN and Microsoft. First of four buses in 2014 tackling the current Ebola crisis starts in Lagos Experts on the Venture Buses to develop e-health solutions tackling Ebola World leading ICT and pharma companies support with funding & hardware Premium sponsor MTN sends CEO selected company representative Microsoft to reward most innovative AMPION…
The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is the worst on record, with the World Health Organization reporting 4,447 deaths – Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have been the hardest hit nations. As international efforts are stepped up to combat the disease, attention has turned to the ways in which mobile technology can assist in Ebola awareness, diagnosis and…
President Ernest Bai Koroma Addresses the Nation of Sierra Leone. Find the original post on the statehouse’s website. Fellow Sierra Leoneans, Our country is in the midst of a big trial. But by the grace of God, we shall overcome this Ebola outbreak. Many of our people have fallen victims to this disease. It was…
An essay by Enuma Okoro When I was 7 years old my father bought me a Bag of Laughs. It was the early 1980s and, as with most every school morning in Lagos, Nigeria, we were stuck in traffic. My father was at the wheel, listening to Bob Marley on the eight-track. I sat in…
Chinua Achebe (pron.: /ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. […] (Wikipedia, Chinua Achebe, as of Mar. 23, 2013.) Tributes from the blogger scene (random selection)
Timbuktu (English pronunciation: pron.: /ˌtɪmbʌkˈtuː/; French: Tombouctou pronounced: [tɔ̃bukˈtu]; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu), formerly also spelled Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo, is a town in the West African nation of Mali situated 20 km (12 mi) north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. The town is the capital of the Timbuktu Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali. It had a population of 54,453 in the 2009 census.
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