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Ethnic Discrimination: A History (3/3)
(History, Conflicts and International)
Ethnic Discrimination: A History is a three-part British documentary series originally broadcast on BBC Four in March 2007. It was part of the season of programmes broadcast on the BBC marking the...
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Introduction to Malaysia
(Positive Africa/African Asia)
... among others the Bidayahs, Bisayas, Ibans, Kadazans Kayans, Kelabits,Kenyahs, Melanans, and Muruts, as well as Eurasians. Malaysia currently has a total population of about 25 Million. The Language of ...
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Best Tips For Western Reporters of African Countries
(Editorial Desk /Media Bias & Ignorance)
... descriptions. Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, ...
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Where is Africa Going Wrong? - Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty
(Technology and Science/ Internet)
... I added inertial force, which enabled me to reformulate Newton’s Second Law of Motion first as 18 equations and algorithms, and then as 24 million algebraic equations. Finally, I programmed 65,000 “electronic ...
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They Are Selling Queen Mother Idia Mask & We all Remain Quiet!
(Positive Africa/African Europe)
... Queen-Mother Idia, on 17th February 2011 and other Benin artefacts from the Edo people. The pendant is expected to fetch £3.5-4.5 millions and possibly more. The Idia ivory pendant is one of the most beautiful ...
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Referendum in Sudan: This is no news
(News and Reports/News-Africa)
... It is an emotional moment for some eight million people, and it is an emotional decision to break Africa's largest country in two. Juba's hotel rooms are cramped with international journalists who flew ...
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Medical Tourism und Globalisation - US Perspective
(News and Reports/Health News)
... fifty-five MILLION dollars. That’s a sum that qualifies to be labeled “a deal you can’t refuse”. In the U.S., the volatile health care climate continues to predict stormy weather ahead for our citizens ...
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Medical Tourism und Globalisation - US Perspective
(Technology and Science/Innovation)
... fifty-five MILLION dollars. That’s a sum that qualifies to be labeled “a deal you can’t refuse”. In the U.S., the volatile health care climate continues to predict stormy weather ahead for our citizens ...
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FIFA World Cup & Positive Africa: Exploring the Other Africa You Never See On TV
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... Once the election violence in South Africa stopped, so did the reporting on South Africa. The lifeways of approximately 700 million peoples in fifty-four countries representing, for non-Africans, unimaginable ...
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Gaddafi Calls for a Division of Nigeria
(News and Reports/News-Africa)
... the example of India and Pakistan in 1947 saying the “partition saved the lives of millions of Hindus and Muslims.” According to the Libyan leader, splitting Nigeria “would stop the bloodshed and burning ...
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The African Eye to The Universe
(Positive Africa/Africans In Science)
... cost of construction was kept to within the original budget of US$20-million defined in 1998, even before the final designs were completed. The cost of the construction and operation of the telescope over ...
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Top Reasons for Visiting London
(Living & Human Interest/Travel)
Visiting London is a modern day pilgrimage for followers of popular culture. In fact millions if not billions of people have an ambition to one day visit London and perhaps as many already have. It is ...
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How to buy the right Christmas tree
(Business and Finance/Personal Finance)
Should you buy a Christmas tree this weekend, and how much should it cost? Miles Brignall offers a root and branch guide, including 'free' trees and the eco-alternatives. Millions of Britons will this ...
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Honda's ASIMO robot
(Technology and Science/High Tech)
... Honda’s 50th anniversary of U.S. operations. In front of the millions of viewers watching from around the world on Jan. 1, 2009, Honda’s float evolved from an opening ceremony stage into an animated replica ...
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Ardipithecus Ramidus - New Earliest Hominid Discovered In Afar Rift - Ethiopia.
(Social, Arts, History & Culture/Ethnicity, Africa and History)
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Randolph E. Schmid, Ap Science Writer The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived ...
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Uranium - The New Gold In Namibia
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... again. In 2006 Rossing announced a US$112-million (R902.4-million) expansion drive, which, together with the Langer Heinrich mine, 50km southeast of Rossing, has propelled Namibia to the top ranks of ...
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Ethiopia: Dr. Gebisa Ejeta Wins The 2009 World Food Prize
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... of one of the world’s five principal grains and enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Food Prize declares in press release. Born in 1950, Gebisa Ejeta ...
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Martin Luther King, US 1963 "I have a Dream" Prophecy Comes True in 2008
(Positive Africa/African America)
... years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had ...
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Our Correspondent Reports from China
(Positive Africa/African Asia)
... the most populous and poorest in China. Some 100 million people (one-third the US population) live in a province the size of Nebraska. More than 1 million live in caves; you can see them from the highways, ...
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Urgent Appeal To All Igbos In The Diaspora
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
By Gaanihu Nwokorie - EAC Correspondent - Netherlands Nigeria is a country of more than 140 million people and there are so many ethnic groups in the country. The three major groups are the Hausa’s, the ...
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Outsourcing Heats Up In Africa As Ghana And Kenya Takes Up The Top Position
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... some of the leading communications and financial corporations in the world. KenCall, whose doors officially opened in 2004, has seen growth in annual revenues of up to US $3.5 million a year. With well ...
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How European Oil Companies Commit Environmental Genocide in Nigeria
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... wealth has been drastically mismanaged, with 80-90% of revenue from crude sales going to the government, but only 30% financing development. With so tens of millions of dollars coming from crude oil rather ...
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Nigeria: The Last of Africa's pseudo-Federations
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... constructed by colonial social engineers in Africa and elsewhere in the last century. Nigeria is uniquely evil because in its short violent existence, it has consumed over 3 million Igbo lives. ...
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We remember Steve Bantu Biko: One of the greatest minds of Africa
(Editorial Desk /Social Injustice & Discrimination)
... Starting with the slave trade and ending with apartheid, racism dominated the last half millennium and involved the exporting of over 10 million slaves. Most European colonial powers took part in this ...
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Diaspora Africans Remember Motherland
(Positive Africa/African America)
... has built a leadership school for girls in South Africa, reportedly spending $40 million. Not to be left out, the popular preacher T.D. Jakes has an ongoing humanitarian project in various parts of Africa. ...
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How Africans discovered Coffee for Europe and the World
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... region between the Nile plains of Sudan and Eritrea. Ethiopia is one of the largest countries in Africa, with an area of 1.13 million km². It has a rugged topography, with altitudes ranging from around ...
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New Yam Festival 2005 celebrated in Germany
(Positive Africa/African Europe)
... of these, the most, popular white yams, Dioscorea rotundata, originated in West Africa which accounts for 90 percent of world production of about 25 million tonnes. Nigeria alone produces 70 percent or ...
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Magnesium Alloy Application: Our chance to counter the Global Warming?
(Social, Arts, History & Culture/Environment and Pollution)
... powers life on the planet. One of the most recent quantification of carbon dioxide amount in the atmosphere from Mauna Loa observatory show that CO2 has increased from about 313 ppm (parts per million) ...
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Philip Emeagwali: An African Innovator breaks barriers
(Positive Africa/Africans In Science)
... were very expensive and ranged in price from $30 million to $100 million, and computer companies had reservations about building them for fear few agencies would make such pricey purchases. "At that ...
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Nigeria and the Corruption-cankerworm:The Only Way Out
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... uncle was an official holding a reputable position in of the arms of a local government. He successfully schemed-off over N15m (fifteen million naira) from the local government coffers .The only punishment ...
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Globalisation is Not New
(Positive Africa/Africans In Science)
... you a supercomputing insight that even the experts in my field did not know then and do not know now. In the 1980s, supercomputers could perform only millions of calculations per second and, therefore, ...
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Introduction to facts on Africa
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... million years ago. Africa is the second largest continent in size after Asia, and the third largest in population next to Asia and Europe. Africa covers almost one fifth of the world's land mass and is ...
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The Evil Candidates Who Ruined Nigeria
(News and Reports/News-Africa)
... million people, what makes Babangida think he alone deserves to rule for perhaps seventeen or more years? What is he bringing to the table now if he never had it in the first place? Don’t we deserve better ...
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Gaddafi adds Salt to Injury - by his Division call for Nigeria
(Editorial Desk /EAC Special Suppliment)
... the example of India and Pakistan in 1947 saying the “partition saved the lives of millions of Hindus and Muslims.” According to the Libyan leader, splitting Nigeria “would stop the bloodshed and burning ...
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Barack Obama´s Ghana Visit - Reactions
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... responsibility” is the same he used while addressing Ghanaians, and even by Obama’s own admissions, he was in effect, exponentially addressing all 900 million Africans, as he ordered American diplomatic ...
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Barack Obama: The Pope of Hope In Berlin
(Editorial Desk /EAC Special Suppliment)
... chose to blockade the western part of the city. They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin. The size of our forces ...
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The Situation in (Darfur) Sudan
(Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion)
... are being committed every day in Sudan (Darfur).Unimaginable atrocities. Women and children who are starving to death are begging the world not for food first and foremost but for protection, 2.5 million ...
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G8 Summit 2007 & Europe-Africa Relations: The Issues at Stake
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... Black Holocaust refers to the millions of African lives which have been lost during the centuries to slavery, colonization and oppression. The Black Holocaust refers to the horrors endured by millions ...
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Part V: Lombaard answers Maqekoane – 31st July 2006
(Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion)
... to the next highest bidder, so as to earn a living. Globalization makes it simple. Therefore, up to one million Afrikaners serve all over the world in professions and services and go from strength to strength, ...
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Part IV: Lombaard answers Maqekoane
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... 1818 and 1838 killed an estimated 3 million indigenous people by the imperialistic rule of Shaka, Dingane, Mantatisi, Mzilikazi, Hurutzi and others? Who should answer to whom, Mr Maqekoane? Where would ...
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Part III: Lombaard answers Maqekoane
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... for a lost generation”: One such man, whom I have met, was a multi millionaire businessman, who many years later told me that the Honourable Verwoerd’s door always stood open to him, as for all other South ...
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Part II: Lombaard answers Maqekoane
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... levies brought service delivery and townships to its knees, a heritage still lingering on in the “new South Africa” leaving millions of citizens without basic services and housing. Yet the present government ...
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Hate-speech on Radio 702
(Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion)
... of her own president, Thabo Mbeki, however. "Millions of black people are suffering while white cartels are looting South Africa...they are continuing today to loot our diamonds..." she said. In response ...
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The Digital-Nigeria-International Conference opens in Abuja
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... which witnessed and increase from about 400,000 telephone lines to over 11 million within four years and the launching of Nigeria Sat –1 amongst others, he pledged that government will continue to create ...
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OJUKWU’s – PETITION
(Editorial Desk /EAC Special Suppliment)
... arrest of this man. We feel that the U.S. government should intervene to forestall potential loss of lives that might result if nothing is done. We have more than 5 million Igbos residing in U.S.A. Please ...
