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FIFA World Cup & Positive Africa: Exploring the Other Africa You Never See On TV
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... one thing, many journalists have the chance to sojourn for so long in South Africa to experience and report (if they wish) not only sports but another Africa: The Africa that nobody reports in western ... Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Genetically Modified Foods in Africa Need Biopolicy
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... acid bases will stop the particular DNA strand from being elongated. Since the genes used usually come from two distinct organisms, the resulting plant or animal is then referred to as a transgenic, that ... Friday, 25 June 2010 -
Nigeria's President Yar'Adua is dead
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
Nigeria's president has died after a long illness, an official at his office has said. Umaru Yar'Adua reportedly died around 2100 local time (2000 GMT) on Wednesday evening at the Aso Rock presidential ... Thursday, 06 May 2010 -
Skin – The story of mixed 'outcast' Sandra Laing
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... movie Skin. "The story goes beyond race. It’s about a need to belong, a need to be loved and accepted. There’s a moment when her father lovingly puts skin-bleaching cream on her face ... Friday, 22 January 2010 -
The African Eye to The Universe
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... Camera (SALTICAM), designed and built by the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO); the Robert Stobie Spectrograph, a multi-purpose longslit and multi-object imaging spectrograph and spectropolarimeter, ... Monday, 11 January 2010 -
African Scientists find Gene That Causes Hereditary Heart Disease.
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... send impulses out along a specialised conduction system, which tells the heart to beat. Proper functioning of these cells is vital for efficient contraction and pumping of the blood. If the electrical ... Saturday, 05 December 2009 -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - An African Positive Ambassador
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... and in her other works, she seeks to instill dignity into the finest details of each character, whether poor, middle class or rich, exposing along the way the deep scars of colonialism in the African landscape. ... Sunday, 11 October 2009 -
Ardipithecus Ramidus - New Earliest Hominid Discovered In Afar Rift - Ethiopia.
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Race, Africa and History
... who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor. ... Friday, 02 October 2009 -
South Africa: Scientists Discover 18 New Species
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... spiders, worms, snails, centipedes and millipedes were unearthed by a group of scientists and volunteers from the Earthwatch organisation, working over an eight-day period. Another 18 species, found along ... Monday, 07 September 2009 -
Uranium - The New Gold In Namibia
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... of Swakopmund, runs 5km long and 350m deep. It’s thought to be the world’s fifth largest primary uranium mine and its reserves are estimated to last until 2020, if production continues at the ... Monday, 07 September 2009 -
EuroAfrica-Magazine Editorial On Obama´s Ghana Visit
Category: Editorial Desk /EuroAfrica-Magazine Editorial
... Nigerian Biafran war, if you know the man who came out from prison and took Nigeria 50 years back... Then Obama was right and said what must be said even when this hurts. Africans can no longer wait ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
Barack Obama´s Ghana Visit - Reactions
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... favored any government, so long as it claimed to be pro-Western. Here is a partial list of U.S allies in Africa (and their fates in brackets) between 1960 and 1990: Liberia (civil war), Nigeria (civil ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
Barack Obama in Ghana - His Official Speech
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... Africa as President of the United States. I am speaking to you at the end of a long trip. I began in Russia, for a Summit between two great powers. I traveled to Italy, for a meeting of the world’s ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
First Amoured Vehicle Constructed By Nigerians
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... The carrier has been field tested, and withstood direct hits from a variety of short and long range ammunition, with little or no damage. The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Adamu Aliero, who represented ... Saturday, 05 September 2009 -
From Sports Export To Politics Of Recognition Part II -By Prof. Dr. Henning
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Poverty, Aid & Internationalism
... and throwing. Laying stress on individual strength and athletic ability, these activities may remind of Western athleticism, but they are practiced mostly in a non-competitive way. For long-jump for instance, ... Wednesday, 02 September 2009 -
Ethiopia: Dr. Gebisa Ejeta Wins The 2009 World Food Prize
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... came at a time when Ethiopia was about to enter a long period of political instability which would keep Ejeta from returning to his home country for nearly 25 years. Ejeta entered Purdue in 1974, earning ... Monday, 24 August 2009 -
Ethnic Discrimination in Europe (Part Two)
Category: Researcherˊs Page/ Social Justice & Human Rights
... the present decade, the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights explicitly banned racism along with many other forms of social discrimination. Article 21 of the charter prohibits discrimination ... Friday, 07 August 2009 -
Ethnic Discrimination in Europe (Part One)
Category: Researcherˊs Page/ Social Justice & Human Rights
... and speaking like retarded children." Although a spokesman of Borders claimed that the book would be moved to the adult section, the commission saw that it is no longer acceptable for any shop to ... Friday, 07 August 2009 -
About us
Category: Our Nework/EACN TEAM
... we will focus on this neglected positive sides of issues that matterso much for Africans, with the aim of correcting the long polluted minds and to encourage more intercultural relationship with people ... Friday, 19 June 2009 -
Introduction to the Black Holocaust: How and Why Did it Happen?
Category: Positive Africa/The African Holocaust
... arrived to begin the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, many of Africa's greatest states were in decline or had vanished. Europeans first began trading goods with the few small states they found along the coast. ... Saturday, 13 June 2009 -
Top African Scientists - Daniel Williams
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... Lewis Latimer, Jan Matzeliger, Granville Woods, Fred Jones, Otis Boykin and others. Their names and contributions are so important to science and humanity but long years of institutionalised discrimination ... Monday, 23 February 2009 -
Carry Me Home
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Arts
... the arterial roads, the cracks of my life even bumpier than the road that leads from Akpakpa to Grand-Popo. My shadow follows me step by step, clings to me. But I want to go faster and tear along, tear ... Thursday, 22 January 2009 -
Martin Luther King, US 1963 "I have a Dream" Prophecy Comes True in 2008
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro ... Monday, 17 November 2008 -
Americans Overcome "The Colour-Divide":
Category: African Diaspora/African America
... road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep, we may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there,” ... Friday, 14 November 2008 -
EAC USA Correspondent: Gyavira Lasana writes on his experiences in China
Category: African Diaspora/African Asia
... muscling into the modern world defined almost everything we would encounter. Shengda College is actually in Longhu, some 45 minutes from the center of Zhengzhou. It is a walled community separating the ... Thursday, 30 October 2008 -
Royal recognition of Rotary maternal health project in Nigeria
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... Emir’s palace in Zaria. The introduction of Zinser into the Emirate Council as the only foreigner was awarded in recognition of his longlasting contribution towards the improvement of maternal health in ... Sunday, 26 October 2008 -
First Mr East Africa UK and 3rd Miss East Africa UK crowned in London
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... East Africa UK. The occasion also witnessed the surprise crowning of Miss Kenya UK. The event was organised by the founder Pauline Long and her dedicated team. Vicky Njoki Ngari-Wilson who represented ... Monday, 04 August 2008 -
Africans came before Columbus: Evidence of Africans in Ancient America
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Race, Africa and History
... Olmec came from Saharan Africa 3200 years ago.They came in boats which are depicted in the Izapa Stela no.5, in twelve migratory waves. These Proto-Olmecs belonged to seven clans which served as the base ... Saturday, 02 August 2008 -
A wonderful African Experience
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... our hotel. As a Brazilian musician, with strong roots in African music, I could not hold back so long. I was automatically attracted to the scene of the music. Unfortunately my Swahili was not fluent ... Saturday, 02 August 2008 -
What is the Future of Food Security in Africa?
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... As such, the analysts contend, many in this group are increasingly becoming bankrupt or lowering their standards of living as they can no longer cope with the growing costs. To check runaway food price ... Saturday, 02 August 2008 -
Barack Obama: The Pope of Hope In Berlin
Category: Editorial Desk /Special Suppliment
... The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all. In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster than our efforts to contain them. That is why we cannot afford to be divided. ... Sunday, 27 July 2008 -
2008 East African Beauty Pageant kicks off in London
Category: Editorial Desk /Special Suppliment
After two successful years running the prestigious Miss East Africa UK, Pauline Long has just launched Mr East Africa UK. The Kenyan born mother of two introduced the male contest to work with and alongside ... Sunday, 29 June 2008 -
The German President calls for an unbiased presentation of Africa
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... Tanzania, one of Germany's long-standing partners, is represented here today by President Amani Abeid Karume of Zanzibar. Let's cast our minds back to the time of the first Matthiae-Mahl. In the mid-fourteenth ... Sunday, 25 May 2008 -
The Situation in (Darfur) Sudan
Category: Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion
... so concerned about the teddy bear lady. Why did you never make that long journey before and plead for thousands and thousands of Africans, who have had their homes burnt and have been chased away from ... Sunday, 09 December 2007 -
Seeing The Other Africa
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... for ten years, when one travels throughout the continent, one can no longer deny the fact that this image is false. Africa is also a land of Stock Exchanges, skyscrapers, Internet cafés, and an increasing ... Sunday, 09 December 2007 -
Miss East Africa UK meets Her Majesty - The Queen of England
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... she met Prince Michael of Kent with whom she shared a long conversation mainly on her charitable duties. He requested Maureen to join in and work with him in his charities. The intelligent beauty queen ... Wednesday, 21 November 2007 -
A New Dawn in the Legal Profession in Cameroon
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... bearers of the good news who out of an interesting discussion on the launching of the Bar exams let the mouse out of the bag. The creation of a law School in Cameroon was triggered by the prolonged ... Friday, 16 November 2007 -
The long Way To Reaping the benefits of outsourcing.
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... runs along the coast of Africa (SAT-3) promises to improve and reduce the cost of all types of communications. The problem is that, although Africa's economic appeal is increasing, India and China are ... Tuesday, 30 October 2007 -
Outsourcing Heats Up In Africa As Ghana And Kenya Takes Up The Top Position
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
By Simbowo Antony - EAC Coordinator/Correspondent East Africa For long India has been regarded as the doyen of global outsourcing. But this is gradually changing as Africa folds up its technical ... Tuesday, 30 October 2007 -
How European Oil Companies Commit Environmental Genocide in Nigeria
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... also noted that “there are no longer any butterflies”. The community leaders informed us that projects initiated by these corporations are not sustainable. Rather they are once off, short ... Friday, 12 October 2007 -
Nigeria: The Last of Africa's pseudo-Federations
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... and Pan-Africanism) How long will the Igbo nation remain coerced into a failed state?)colonial rule, another Igbo, James Africanus Beale Horton (1835-1883) - physician, British Army officer, mining entrepreneur ... 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
... shake the earth, especially the very ground upon which apartheid had been built. Woods lived long enough to return to his homeland as an honored man after apartheid fell. It is interesting to note that ... Wednesday, 12 September 2007 -
We remember Steve Bantu Biko: One of the greatest fallen but living minds of Africa
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... Head of State, under the hegemony of the South African government. The black people that were designated as belonging to such a “Homeland”, would have their South African citizenship replaced ... Wednesday, 12 September 2007 -
Maureen Nyakaira wins Miss East Africa UK 2007
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
By Keith long - From London The much anticipated Miss East Africa UK 2007 finally took place on 1st September at the prestigious Conway Hall, London. The event saw 21 year old Ugandan medical physics student ... Tuesday, 11 September 2007 -
Kenya Positions Itself As The Next Big Business Destination In Africa
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and features
... anchor states along with South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Libya, Egypt and Sudan, Kenya is set to play its role in taking Africa’s business environment to the next level. The Kenyan Government has already ... Monday, 03 September 2007 -
Again Racism, Intolerance and Violence in East Germany
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... city of Rostock and with enormous backing from the neighbours. Most people say they are appalled but hardly anyone admits to having seen witnessed the fracas. The older people say they went to bed long ... Wednesday, 22 August 2007 -
Diaspora Africans Remember Motherland
Category: African Diaspora/African America
... African descent have been away from the source for too long. It would appear such individuals have been lost forever. Events of the last few weeks have, however, given room for cautious optimism. There ... Monday, 30 July 2007 -
So, Alabama joins Maryland, North Carolina & Co. - Opinion -
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... it is important to just say who you are and what you believe, without a demand outside one’s own question of sincerity. To bear witness to a wrong and proclaim it as a wrong worthy of regret, even long ... Tuesday, 05 June 2007 -
Our African Diaspora Series: London's Black writers of the18th. Century
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... had gone along to disrupt the service, John was instead converted on the spot. He set to travelling around the US, preaching and converting Native Americans to Christianity.Though born free, John was to ... Sunday, 03 June 2007 -
G8 Summit 2007 & Europe-Africa Relations: The Issues at Stake
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... indispensable partner so long as its raw materials, cultural goods and other resources were in demand in Europe and at the whims and caprices of its colonial looters. The mass unbridled exploitation of ... Saturday, 02 June 2007 -
EAC Web Links
Category: Section
... the right to cancel prolong or not publish a Support Profile of an organization. Below, you will find a complete listing of our specially selected Links, arranged in Categories, from which you can ...
