34,945 posts tagged "Africa"

The other day I ran across a really nice story on the CNN website about a grandmother who is doing great things in Africa. Check it out here.

IN August more than 20 young women will strut their stuff in the hopes of being crowned Miss Africa Australia. Most of the contestants hail from Blacktown, including Uwaila Oduware, an 18-year-old from Plumpton, and 21-year-old Effie Nkrumah, from Quakers Hill.

African education: Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa school pix Posted by sociolingo on May 13, 2008 Now this is a good idea - work with teachers and head teachers and give kids in African schools cameras and let them shoot away depicting life in their school and at home.

“The results we have suggest that a Cult of Sothis developed in Ethiopia with the arrival of Judaism and the Ark of the Covenant, and continued until 600AD” London, May 13: Archaeologists from the University of Hamburg have claimed that they have discovered the Queen of Sheba’s palace and an altar that may have once held the Ark of the Covenant in Axum, Ethiopia.

“We are asking the South African government to some thing about this because it is spiralling out of control” Members of the Alexandra Township community gather yesterday to listen to their leaders after xenophobia attacks on Zimbabwe immigrants by South Africans JOHANNESBURG: An attack on a

Japan to build 1,000 schools in Africa Posted by sociolingo on May 13, 2008 Source: Development Gateway Japan to build 1,000 schools in Africa April 30, 2008: Japan has announced an ambitious plan to build 1,000 schools in Africa over the next five years.

Alhaji Atiku said he could not immediately get a plane back home from Dubai. He expressed desire to appear at a latter date. via Vanguard Original post by Vanguard and software by News Africa

“I call upon the Government to provide money to repair the railway. If the line is not repaired immediately, Ugandan traders will not bring in goods.” The section of the railway that was cut off by floods in Jinja By Madinah Tebajjukira, Chris Kiwawulo & Anthony Bugembe THE railway link to the

African Copyright & Access to Knowledge methodology guide Posted by sociolingo on May 13, 2008 Source: ACA2K Please click on this link to download or view the Methodology guide in PDF format: ACA2K Methodology Guide-April 2008.pdf French: D2ASA Guide Methodologique-Avril 2008.pdf Posted

Scholarships for Informatics-and-Development Masters Study in Manchester Posted by sociolingo on May 13, 2008 Please read the following carefully and make the application through the website NOT to Sociolingo. Comments are closed for this post.