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• Free-to-air Ghanaian TV Stations on Satellite

  
  Oluniyi David Ajao — Authority: 117
  Ghanaians abroad are keen to stay in touch with social and political affairs back home. Some relatively comfortable Ghanaians within Ghana live outside the urban areas, deep in the rural parts....
  16 hours ago

• Energy economists help Ghana with coming oil boom

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 559
  UT Austin’s Center for Energy Economics is conducting a “needs assessment” for the oil and gas sector in the west African country of Ghana. The goal is to provide a roadmap for developing the infrastructure and expertise to most effectively manage Ghana’s emerging oil and gas industry.
  3 days ago

• the poor widow and prosperity gospel

  
  saint george — Authority: 414
  And in contrast to the lectionary reading (see below), here’s a new video from the Global Conversation on prosperity gospel in West Africa. The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo .
  4 days ago

• Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (11042009.mp3) Download MP3 Even though the music business continues to suffer economically, record labels are still releasing lots of old music that’s been re-mastered and tweaked so it sounds fresher than ever. Columbia is about to re-issue everything Miles Davis recorded for them. 70 ...
  5 days ago

• Riverstone Announces New Gold Zone at Karma

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 136
  Riverstone Resources Inc. announce results from the first twenty three Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drill holes completed on the Company’s Karma gold project in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The holes were drilled in the immediate area of the GG1 deposit, one of four deposits that comprise the Karma project, to test several ...
  5 days ago

• Adidas Hidden African Inspiration: The "Kenta" Shoe

  
  Rain in Africa — Authority: 488
  Yesterday, Kwabena , a fellow blogger alerted us Ghanablogging members of that Adidas is using Ghanaian Kente cloth on a shoe calling it Kenta and acting as they invented it. Kente is Ghanas (and Togos) pride, being delicately woven in narrow strips by skilled craftsmen - almost always men. Kente is then sewn and ...
  6 days ago

• Presidency probes mass failure in SSSCE, NECO exams – The Nation

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 149
  The Presidency has ordered an investigation into the mass failure of students in this year’s School Certificate Examinations.Some school heads may be punished to avert a re-occurrence of the “woeful” performance, it was gathered yesterday.Most secondary school leavers failed the May-June examinations conducted ...
  6 days ago

• West Africa: Stopping cholera emergencies

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. Researchers with the London School of Hygiene and ...
  1 week ago

• Real Hip Hop In Africa: Senegal Rocks To The Breaka Dawn!

  
  Old School Scholar Hip Hop Culture and Music — Authority: 122
  If there is a wake up call to what Hip Hop music really is and what it means to people around the world, then this is one documentary that will plainly spell it for you in Senegal, West Africa. This is an excellent video to serve as a reminder to America what Hip Hop truly is at the core to these emcees.
  1 week ago

• Tuning Out and Coming To…in a Chicken Coop

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Jessica Chervin, KF9 Togo Yesterday evening, West Africa made me giddy. I have been in Togo for almost five months, and in West Africa for almost nine.  Here, my senses are never neutral.  The most lovely moments are tempered by inconvenience.  My daily moto rides to and from Microfund are at once thrilling ...
  1 week ago

• Why Is This?

  
  Ginny's Thoughts & Things — Authority: 473
  Assalamu alaikum, this kind of runs in the same vein as the “giving dawa” post, and that is the topic of discussing Islam in sub-Saharan Africa, or discussing Muslims in Africa, or talking about African countries that have significant, if not majority, Muslim populations. And that is, what I take to be, the ...
  1 week ago

• A very interesting documentary by Rageh …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  A very interesting documentary by Rageh Omaar at Al-Jazeera about America’s ‘new frontline’ in the war on terror, which was opened in Africa when the Bush administration decided to topple the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia. Omaar, Somali-born and a former BBC reporter , travelled the width of Africa from ...
  1 week ago

• Amar’e Stoudemire Foundation in Mali: Another way to share happiness!

  
  Streetball, Sneakers, Bobbito, Nike Air Force, Jordans — Authority: 136
  The Phoenix Suns’ (NBA) Amar’e Stoudemire Foundation organized a five-day basketball Camp aimed to support young basketball players all over Bamako city, the Malian capital city. Some young men were incredible when they had been called by the local organizer the coach Alkaya Toure, to take part in this five-day ...
  2 weeks ago

• Conservation Medicine: looking into the rise in disease transmission from animals to humans (and the climate connection of it all)

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  There are two major reasons behind the rise in disease transmission from animals to humans: humans encroaching on forested lands and rise in Earth’s temperature due to global warming. A new field called ‘conservation medicine’ looks into ‘how ecosystem disturbance and changing interactions between wildlife and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Diocese partners with bank to distribute mosquito nets: CEN 10.23.09 p 8.

  
  Conger — Authority: 476
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper. The Diocese of Bo has partnered with the Standard Chartered Bank to distribute 16,000 mosquito nets in the Bo and Pujehon districts of Sierra Leone as part of the “Nets for Life” programme. An initiative of Episcopal Relief & Development, Nets for Life ...
  2 weeks ago

• Congolese NGOs Receive Over 138 Million Francs in Funding From France

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  French cooperation has given financial support of over CFA 138 million (210,880 euros) to Congolese NGOs in a bid to help improve the living conditions of the rural and urban population in the country. The French ambassador to Congo, Nicolas Normand, and leaders of receiving NGOs signed the financing agreement on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amazing experiences in Africa

  
  STA travelbuzz — Authority: 129
  Adam is in Africa and becoming one of our most prolific STA Explorers to date. Since we last checked in on him there has been a further eight updates to his travel blog, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride . From a Gambian River Cruise to Meeting His Highness Adam’s posts are full of insight and ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Than 100 Elephants a Day Still Slaughtered By Poachers

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Despite the ivory trade being banned 20 years ago, a shocking 104 elephants are still being killed every day for their tusks.  This alarming level of illegal hunting could drive the African elephant to extinction across much of the continent in just 15 years. The International Fund for Animal Welfare is calling for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indian men living in UK ‘more prone to alcohol-related problems’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Oct 21 (ANI): Experts have raised concerns over the alcohol use in Indian men living in the UK.Although men born in India reportedly drank less than the general UK population, they were more vulnerable to alcohol-related problems.The research team led by Dr Rashid Zaman studied the people from Sri Lanka, East ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mining for Diamonds in Sierra Leone

  
  Defending. Contending. — Authority: 477
  I found a missionary video well worth watching. Stephen and Laura Holt are Baptist missionaries working in Sierra Leone. They are mining diamonds, but not the kind you wear on your fingers. The rough hewn characters being mined are the results of an 11 year civil war similar to the one that engulfed its neighbor, ...
  2 weeks ago

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