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A Russian Record: First African Politician Elected to Office
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... municipal building. "This is my home, my town. We can't live like this." "His skin is black but he is Russian inside," said Vyacheslav Arakelov, the mayor. "The way he cares about ... Friday, 30 July 2010 -
FIFA World Cup & Positive Africa: Exploring the Other Africa You Never See On TV
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... an abundance of noise and loud laughter, and it serves the purpose of furnishing amusement to the barbarians, as the dervish-like whirling and pirouetting give to civilized people. ( Stanley 1890 , vol. ... Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Genetically Modified Foods in Africa Need Biopolicy
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... after the consumption of genetically modified foods. The presence of carcinogenic (cancer causing) compounds such as gluphosates in chemicals like herbicides and pesticides also puts the user at a great ... Friday, 25 June 2010 -
South Africa: Celebrity-obsessed generation forgets its history?
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... youths, it begets a question: The stories of people like Steve Biko and Albert Luthuli, who struggled for a non-racial and democratic society and suffered brutality, exile, prison and in some cases paid ... Saturday, 15 May 2010 -
State of Hamburg - Germany honours Founder of EAC-Network as Certified Intercultural Health Mediator
Category: Cultural Exchange/People and Places
... . VIEW EVENT PHOTOS HERE Further press information: If you would like to accompany a mediator in their work on-site, please contact: MiMi-Hamburg, Karin Robben, Graf-Johann Weg ... Thursday, 29 April 2010 -
Skin – The story of mixed 'outcast' Sandra Laing
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... to lighten her skin. It burns and he blows on it. Fabian (Producer and director of the film Skin) describes Laing as like a peach. “The skin easily bruises, but there is a hard core, a big stone ... Friday, 22 January 2010 -
Professor Kelly Chibale, Zambian Scientist Leads African Drug Discovery Research
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... a member of TDR’s Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacokinetics Network. The network, one of four devoted to different parts of the drug discovery chain, links African institutions like UCT with industry ... Saturday, 05 December 2009 -
Super Antibodies Against HIV Discovered in African Countries
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... collaboration is likely to generate findings that will benefit the vital enterprise of accelerating Aida vaccine research and development. “The story of the discovery of these two new antibodies ... Saturday, 05 December 2009 -
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Category: Our Nework/Legal /Terms
... allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and to customize our service to make your experience easier. You agree that in order to assist our members to meet each other ... Friday, 20 November 2009 -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - An African Positive Ambassador
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... experience. Adichie builds on the literary tradition of Igbo literary giant Chinua Achebe—and when she found out that Achebe liked Half of a Yellow Sun, she says she cried for a whole day. What ... Sunday, 11 October 2009 -
Ardipithecus Ramidus - New Earliest Hominid Discovered In Afar Rift - Ethiopia.
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Race, Africa and History
... This older s eleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University. Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new ... Friday, 02 October 2009 -
South Africa: Scientists Discover 18 New Species
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... in a relatively well studied country like South Africa”.Hamer added that the external threats posed by urban development might well have caused the newly discovered species to disappear before scientists ... Monday, 07 September 2009 -
EuroAfrica-Magazine Editorial On Obama´s Ghana Visit
Category: Editorial Desk /EuroAfrica-Magazine Editorial
... written, and published on this visit. It is understandable that some countries in Africa like Oil-rich Nigeria, which has done a lot for stability in Liberia/Siere Leone and for the South African Liberation ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
Barack Obama´s Ghana Visit - Reactions
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... side of the spectrum! Obama would have been more successful and impressive across the board and he would have shined and come across smelling like fresh flowers if he had visited Ghana, Kenya, ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
Barack Obama in Ghana - His Official Speech
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... But despite the progress that has been made - and there has been considerable progress in parts of Africa - we also know that much of that promise has yet to be fulfilled. Countries like Kenya, which had ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
From Sports Export To Politics Of Recognition Part II -By Prof. Dr. Henning
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Poverty, Aid & Internationalism
... together a trialectical picture of sports policies. How programs like these are implemented in social practice is, however, always a problem of its own – and was it also in this case. The lines ... Wednesday, 02 September 2009 -
Onitsha-Nigeria: Efforts Yield Fruits In The Battle Against Crime
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... safety in a sprawling city like Onitsha, local police spokesman Charles Nwuka welcomes the help they are getting from vigilantes. “We believe highly in the policy of community policing because ... Monday, 24 August 2009 -
African Immigrant Politician in Germany Suffers Ethnic Abuse From Right Wing
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... statement suggesting they would like to hold "direct talks" with Zeca Schall, a member of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Schall's picture appears next to that of Dieter Althaus, ... Thursday, 13 August 2009 -
Ethnic Discrimination in Europe (Part Two)
Category: Researcherˊs Page/ Social Justice & Human Rights
... kept on expressing concern about far-right organizations in France, like Jean-Marie Le Pen's party National Front. The reports also charged the French authorities of laxity and trivialization with regard ... Friday, 07 August 2009 -
Ethnic Discrimination in Europe (Part One)
Category: Researcherˊs Page/ Social Justice & Human Rights
... human race, just like the animal species, is divided into races, each equipped with a specific genetic inheritance that demonstrates special characters and particular and immutable aptitudes. In the hierarchy ... Friday, 07 August 2009 -
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Category: Our Nework/EACN TEAM
... community well-selected interactive services like news, entertainment, forum, partner search, lifestyle, medical counselling. Education/training, business/advertising opportunities, tours, travel, ... Friday, 19 June 2009 -
Arrest Warrant for Sudan’s President a Welcome Step
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... persons in Darfur in the wake of the arrest warrant, in case of a likely spike in violent attacks, and urges the United Nation's Security Council to take all measures to ensure that they are protected. ... Thursday, 05 March 2009 -
Carry Me Home
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Arts
... We publish here her story which won the First runner-up in the writing contest organized by the NYU for the 2008 Pan-African Literary Forum." "Sometimes, I feel like an orphan without a mother. If only ... Thursday, 22 January 2009 -
The Plant That Cures Malaria
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... ranging from 4 to 80! Meeting someone like Clovis reminds me why I love my job. His knowledge of all the flora and fauna in Uganda, his passion for farming and his selfless dedication to ... Wednesday, 03 December 2008 -
Martin Luther King, US 1963 "I have a Dream" Prophecy Comes True in 2008
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, ... Monday, 17 November 2008 -
Americans Overcome "The Colour-Divide":
Category: African Diaspora/African America
... were highly unlikely to win the 60 seats they need in the 100-seat chamber needed to frustrate Republican obstruction tactics. Among the Republican casualties was Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, wife ... Friday, 14 November 2008 -
EAC USA Correspondent: Gyavira Lasana writes on his experiences in China
Category: African Diaspora/African Asia
... all foreigners, especially Black Africans. So the sight of someone like me typically ignites a minor riot. This happened in every part of China I visited, from the backward outpost of northern and ... Thursday, 30 October 2008 -
First Mr East Africa UK and 3rd Miss East Africa UK crowned in London
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... child goes to bed without food.” The pageant would like to officially thank everyone that helped make this day a success, the team, the hosts, the sponsors, the performers and all the contestants ... Monday, 04 August 2008 -
A wonderful African Experience
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... from the Tanzanian mainland, situated directly east of the of the port of Tanga. Unlike Unguja, which is flat and sandy, Pemba's terrain is hilly, fertile and heavily vegetated. The early Arab sailors ... Saturday, 02 August 2008 -
Barack Obama: The Pope of Hope In Berlin
Category: Editorial Desk /Special Suppliment
... I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats ... Sunday, 27 July 2008 -
The German President calls for an unbiased presentation of Africa
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... interconnected world of the twenty-first century we can't just look the other way when close by children are starving, rape is used as a weapon of war or pandemics spread like wildfire. To do what we can ... Sunday, 25 May 2008 -
Urgent Appeal To All Igbos In The Diaspora
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and features
... sees it as a crime to teach his kids Igbo. Shame on this fool and shame to all the Nigerian parents that are like this fool. As a Nigerian parent, you do not need to be communicating with your children ... Sunday, 27 January 2008 -
Social Pressure Forces Camerounian Couples To Abandon Cohabitation
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... less equalitarian and more likely to lead to divorce. Civil marriage improves marital stability. Cohabitation doesn’t provide superior training for marriage. Aoudou, just signed for a polygamous union ... Monday, 10 December 2007 -
Seeing The Other Africa
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... many of these results, but the good news is the performance of non-oil producing countries like Tanzania. Real GDP growth on average of 6%, inflation maintained at 4.2% and government tax incomes which ... Sunday, 09 December 2007 -
Miss East Africa UK meets Her Majesty - The Queen of England
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... I feel very honoured. The members and employees of the Royal household treated me with so much honour, almost like one of them. My conversation with the Queen flowed and she seemed to take great interest ... Wednesday, 21 November 2007 -
How European Oil Companies Commit Environmental Genocide in Nigeria
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... there is anything like democracy here.” The government still works hand in hand with the multinational corporations to allow the environmental pollution to continue unchecked and repress any resistance ... Friday, 12 October 2007 -
Nigeria: The Last of Africa's pseudo-Federations
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... which have collapsed one after the other like a pack of cards. Viewed both historically and comparatively, Nigeria is next on line to go down the ignominious path of other fraudulent federations, some ... Friday, 12 October 2007 -
DONALD WOODS-- A white liberal who knew his place and wrote the truth about South Africa!
Category: Editorial Desk /Special Suppliment
... he grew up the way most Whites of his generation did as a believer in apartheid and started out life like most white South Africans—amid wealth, privilege, and totally ignorant of their all-pervasive racism. ... Wednesday, 12 September 2007 -
Maureen Nyakaira wins Miss East Africa UK 2007
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... will appear in various leading UK magazine spread. The pageant would like to thank all the sponsors and partners listed below for making this event happen: Tumukunde.com, UGPulse.com, Grace Shannans designs, ... Tuesday, 11 September 2007 -
Kenya Positions Itself As The Next Big Business Destination In Africa
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and features
... continent is slowly emerging as a serious commerce center in the world with countries like Angola (through the Angola National Investment Commission-ANIP) investing heavily in marketing themselves on global ... Monday, 03 September 2007 -
Meet the EuroAfricaCentral Network Team
Category: Our Nework/EACN TEAM
... currently work as a freelance translator, and I would like to use my translation skills to make a positive difference in the world. Since visiting Africa as a child and India in adulthood, I ... Monday, 27 August 2007 -
Diaspora Africans Remember Motherland
Category: African Diaspora/African America
... Bank and its subsidiaries like the International Monetary Fund and International Finance Corporation have consistently proven that they have other priorities. Waiting on a “Merchant of Venice” ... Monday, 30 July 2007 -
So, Alabama joins Maryland, North Carolina & Co. - Opinion -
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... at the time of harming me, you likely (even necessarily) failed to recognize. As the sender of apology, there is the appeal of monstration: I demonstrate to you and to myself that I am a changed person. ... Tuesday, 05 June 2007 -
G8 Summit 2007 & Europe-Africa Relations: The Issues at Stake
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... a new Africa: The end of apartheid in South Africa's has liberated its citizens and businesses alike. Since 1994, South African annual trade with Africa has increased fivefold to over $7 ... Saturday, 02 June 2007 -
New African Fraternity Launched in Chicago
Category: African Diaspora/African America
... like this that I founded the Order of Kush. I am appealing to African Americans, especially, to take a stand and acknowledge their, and my, African past. We should not allow another generation of black ... Tuesday, 06 February 2007 -
An African makes breakthrough in GM-car design
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... like hydroelectric power or wind, every kilowatt might generate about 1.4 pounds of carbon dioxide. That's just 7 pounds to drive those 30 kilometers on electric power-only compared to the 24 pounds of ... Saturday, 27 January 2007 -
Where is Africa Going Wrong? - Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Poverty, Aid & Internationalism
... actor’s production, much like I consume the knowledge and production of Bob Marley’s through his songs. We will need wisdom, that which turns too much information — or information overload — into focused ... Sunday, 17 December 2006 -
A-J K-Z
Category: EAC Web Links/History, Ethnicity and Society
... Antony van Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. A tradesman of Delft, Holland, he came from a family of tradesmen, had no fortune, received no higher education or university degrees, and knew ... Thursday, 07 December 2006 -
History, Race & Society A-J K-Z
Category: EAC Web Links/History, Ethnicity and Society
... van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Antony van Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. A tradesman of Delft, Holland, he came from a family of tradesmen, had no fortune, received no higher education or university ... Thursday, 07 December 2006 -
“No development is possible if it is not from all and for all"
Category: Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion
... and have created functional and effective literacy campaigns that conform with the traditional mediums like Super Taco (in Lome), Boloumondji with Tsévié, Ational koumapé in Vo and Yotokopé in Yoto. ... Saturday, 11 November 2006 -
Researcherˊs Page
Category: Section
... to empower the regional communities. EAC will be interested in publishing Research Findings with themes selected from any of the following areas: I would like to submit Research-findings to The EuroAfricaCentral ... -
EAC USA Correspondent: Gyavira Lasana writes on his experiences in China
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You write good articles,I like your blog. ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010
