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Africa Needs Development Armies
by Calestous Juma
Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Published: September 13, 2007 in Business Daily, (Africa)
The United Nations Security Council has extended the peace-keeping mandate of the African Union in Somalia.… Read more »
The Rise of Africa’s B-brands, by The Africa Report
By Gemma Ware
Published: Thursday, May 16, 2013
Smaller and more agile local brands are taking the fight to multinationals seeking to benefit from increasing consumer spending in sub-Saharan Africa. Both sorts of firms are looking to expand in the region and are deploying new strategies to attract customers.… Read more »
Refusing a ‘diminished self’, by Harvard Gazette
Informed by prison experience, activist-scholar imagines a more open Ethiopia
By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in Harvard Gazette
Four years ago this spring, Birtukan Midekssa was in solitary confinement in an Ethiopian prison.… Read more »
Pyramid Schemes: An Innovative Class on The Archaeological History of Ancient Egypt
While most students take classes in the traditional lecture format, students of Professor Peter Der Manuelian’s class Societies of the World 38: Pyramid Schemes – The Archaeological History of Ancient Egypt (Fall 2012), had the opportunity to learn in a non-traditional and innovative ways, using digital media.… Read more »
Kenyan Mau Mau victims in talks with UK government over legal settlement, by The Guardian
Payments to thousands who were tortured during 1950s insurgency could open door for other victims of British colonial rule
by Ian Cobain and Jessica Hatcher
Published May 6, 2013 in The Guardian
The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency in what would be the first compensation settlement resulting from official crimes committed under imperial rule.… Read more »
Southern Africa’s first multiracial school celebrates 50 triumphant years, by The Guardian
Waterford school in Swaziland reflects on its historic role with a series of parades and tributes from students old and new
by David Smith in Mbabane
Published April 29, 2013 in The Guardian
Russell Palmer, a journalist from South Africa, described it as like landing on another planet, a feeling of having suddenly arrived in an environment so different from what he has known that there is overwhelming bewilderment.… Read more »
Harvard Africa Workshop Tackles Issues of Extractive Industries
The Harvard Africa Workshop, the signature scholarly initiative of the Committee on African Studies in conjunction with the African and African-American Studies Department, is exploring the controversies around extractive industries and their impact on contemporary African societies in their inaugural annual conference, Extractive Economies and the State in Contemporary Africa.… Read more »
Mandela honored by film installation in Times Square, by BBC News
Published April 23, 2013 in BBC News
A film installation celebrating Nelson Mandela is taking over the electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square.
The short presentation was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute, the arts organisation co-founded by Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro.… Read more »
Somalia attack: Al-Shabab ‘kill at least 30′ in Mogadishu, in BBC News
Published April 15, 2013 in BBC News
The number of people killed in Sunday’s bomb and gun attacks in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, has risen to at least 30, medical sources say.… Read more »
Sudan’s President Bashir meets South Sudan’s Kiir, by BBC News
Published: April 12, 2013 in BBC News
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan is visiting South Sudan for the first time since it became independent in 2011.
Mr Bashir and his southern counterpart, Salva Kiir, will discuss territorial disputes and border demarcation.… Read more »
