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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
... on South Africa. The lifeways of approximately 700 million peoples in fifty-four countries representing, for non-Africans, unimaginable multicultural, polyethnic, polyreligious, multipolitical, ... Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Nigeria's President Yar'Adua is dead
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... Jonathan, sparking a constitutional crisis in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 150 million people. "Nigeria has lost the jewel on its crown and even the heavens mourn with our nation tonight" ... Thursday, 06 May 2010 -
Gaddafi adds Salt to Injury - by his Division call for Nigeria
Category: Top News/NewsLIinks-Africa
... to students, where he praised 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 ... Saturday, 20 March 2010 -
The African Eye to The Universe
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... - five-year timescale. The 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 ... Monday, 11 January 2010 -
Ardipithecus Ramidus - New Earliest Hominid Discovered In Afar Rift - Ethiopia.
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Race, 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 ... Friday, 02 October 2009 -
Uranium - The New Gold In Namibia
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... search for carbon-neutral energy, thus pushing uranium prices up again. In 2006 Rossing announced a US$112-million (R902.4-million) expansion drive, which, together with the Langer Heinrich mine, 50km ... Monday, 07 September 2009 -
Barack Obama´s Ghana Visit - Reactions
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... “taking 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 ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
From Sports Export To Politics Of Recognition Part II -By Prof. Dr. Henning
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Poverty, Aid & Internationalism
... 5,5 million Sukuma, 13 % of the Tanzanian population, live in the northwest of the country, to the south and west of Lake Victoria. Usukuma includes Mwanza, the second-largest town of the country after ... Wednesday, 02 September 2009 -
Ethiopia: Dr. Gebisa Ejeta Wins The 2009 World Food Prize
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... 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 ... Monday, 24 August 2009 -
Arrest Warrant for Sudan’s President a Welcome Step
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... – nearly 2.5 million of them – whose lives have been utterly torn apart. It is the responsibility of the Government of Sudan as well as the international community, to help them rebuild Darfur. " ... Thursday, 05 March 2009 -
4.5 million Euro Grant For Essex-led Research
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Poverty, Aid & Internationalism
... be used to help explore alternative approaches to tackling poverty and inequality has been given a multi million Euro boost. EUROMOD, created by an international team of experts led by the Institute for ... Sunday, 08 February 2009 -
The Plant That Cures Malaria
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... Awor - a mother whose child has malaria Every year, up to 500 million people contract malaria. Of these, around 1 million die. Cecilia Awor is worried that her 4 month old baby son Simon may soon join ... 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
... 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 -
EAC USA Correspondent: Gyavira Lasana writes on his experiences in China
Category: African Diaspora/African Asia
... 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, with their shiny red-ribboned ... Thursday, 30 October 2008 -
Royal recognition of Rotary maternal health project in Nigeria
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... well. In 2005 the current 1-million-Euro-project was started in the two Northern Nigerian states of Kano and Kaduna with a target population of 5.000.000 women. The elements of this comprehensive approach ... Sunday, 26 October 2008 -
What is the Future of Food Security in Africa?
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... other hand, many African countries have about 80 percent of their populations working in the agricultural industry yet they can hardly afford to feed themselves. Every year, thousands and sometimes millions ... Saturday, 02 August 2008 -
Barack Obama: The Pope of Hope In Berlin
Category: Editorial Desk /Special Suppliment
... 1948, the Communists 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 ... Sunday, 27 July 2008 -
Urgent Appeal To All Igbos In The Diaspora
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and 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, ... Sunday, 27 January 2008 -
The Situation in (Darfur) Sudan
Category: Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion
... foremost but for protection, 2.5 million people displaced by Arab militias, supported by the Sudan government, 10,000 a month are dying from starvation, violence and disease. People are trying to ... Sunday, 09 December 2007 -
A New Dawn in the Legal Profession in Cameroon
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... lack of qualified lawyers. The proportion of lawyers to the population is 1350 lawyers to a fastly growing population of over 19 million. Though it provided that the exams be launched yearly, lawyers ... Friday, 16 November 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
... opened in 2004, has seen growth in annual revenues of up to US $3.5 million a year. With well trained graduates, Kenya stands tall in steering outsourcing in Africa. Currently, the Kenyan government ... Tuesday, 30 October 2007 -
How European Oil Companies Commit Environmental Genocide in Nigeria
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... of millions of dollars coming from crude oil rather than, the state has not had to promote growth because it does not rely on taxation Most of the oil money has gone into the pockets of government heads, ... Friday, 12 October 2007 -
Nigeria: The Last of Africa's pseudo-Federations
Category: 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 ... Friday, 12 October 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
... 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 ... Wednesday, 12 September 2007 -
Diaspora Africans Remember Motherland
Category: African Diaspora/African America
... the gruesome era of slavery, 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 ... Monday, 30 July 2007 -
G8 Summit 2007 & Europe-Africa Relations: The Issues at Stake
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... 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 of men, women, and children ... Saturday, 02 June 2007 -
Where is Africa Going Wrong? - Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Poverty, Aid & Internationalism
... 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 brains” called processors to work ... Sunday, 17 December 2006 -
A-J K-Z
Category: EAC Web Links/History, Ethnicity and Society
... Jackson's awards stemmed from his album "Thriller," which became the biggest selling record of all time with 35 million copies sold since its release in 1982. Jackson is one of the most successful ... Thursday, 07 December 2006 -
History, Race & Society A-J K-Z
Category: EAC Web Links/History, Ethnicity and Society
... of all time with 35 million copies sold since its release in 1982. Jackson is one of the most successful entertainers of the last three decades: National Union of Government & Federated Workers ... Thursday, 07 December 2006 -
Part V: Lombaard answers Maqekoane – 31st July 2006
Category: Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion
... their knowledge and skills 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 ... Friday, 13 October 2006 -
Part IV: Lombaard answers Maqekoane – 30th July 2006
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and features
... 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 you ... Friday, 13 October 2006 -
Part III: Lombaard answers Maqekoane – 29 July 2006
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and 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 ... Friday, 13 October 2006 -
Part II: Lombaard answers Maqekoane – 28 July 2006
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and 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 ... Friday, 13 October 2006 -
Hate-speech on Radio 702
Category: Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion
... copying the sentiments 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..." ... Friday, 13 October 2006 -
How Africans discovered Coffee for Europe and the World
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... west and Eritrea to the north-east. It occupies the high plateau 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. ... Monday, 07 August 2006 -
New Yam Festival 2005 celebrated in Germany
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... accounts for 90 percent of world production of about 25 million tonnes. Nigeria alone produces 70 percent or 17 million tonnes of the world output. The yam zone of West Africa is restricted peripherally ... Thursday, 03 August 2006 -
Magnesium Alloy Application: Our chance to counter the Global Warming?
Category: Researcherˊs Page/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) ... Friday, 23 June 2006 -
The Role Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOˊs) in the reduction of Cardiovascular Diseases in Afric
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Health and Diseases
... 17 million) to cardiovascular diseases. Developing countries, low and middle income countries account for 86% of the Disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost to CVD worldwide. It is said that in the ... Monday, 08 May 2006 -
Philip Emeagwali: An African Innovator breaks barriers
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet. He is the Father of the super computers because before his time, Supercomputers were very expensive and ranged in price from $30 million to $100 million, ... Sunday, 07 May 2006 -
The Digital-Nigeria-International Conference opens in Abuja
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and 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 ... Saturday, 06 May 2006 -
Ever heard of Winter season in Africa?
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... out extra carefully whenever I crossed the streets. The simplicity of the city is quite amazing as I am used to the hustle and bustle of Lagos life. Everybody in Mozambique is a millionaire. I thought ... Saturday, 06 May 2006 -
Nigeria and the Corruption-cankerworm:The Only Way Out
Category: Editorial Desk /Essays and features
... seriousness of the situation in Nigeria. His 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 ... Saturday, 06 May 2006 -
OJUKWU’s – PETITION
Category: Editorial Desk /Special Suppliment
... consider as unlawful 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 ... Saturday, 06 May 2006 -
Globalisation is Not New
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... could perform only millions of calculations per second and, therefore, their timers were designed to measure only millions of calculations per second. But I was performing billions of calculations per ... Saturday, 06 May 2006 -
Introduction to facts on Africa
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... back to two and half 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 ... Friday, 28 April 2006
