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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
... in Nigeria, the next day’s news caption will read: "AFRICA IN CRISES In African countries news managers do not just caption stories: "Europe a Continent under fire" because there ... Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Genetically Modified Foods in Africa Need Biopolicy
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
By Antony Simbowo EAC Magazine East Africa The era of genetically manipulated foods is here with us. Africa and the Third World must wake up to this realization. Within the decade, there has been an ... 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 -
Gaddafi adds Salt to Injury - by his Division call for Nigeria
Category: Top News/NewsLIinks-Africa
Nigeria on Thursday recalled Isa Aliyu Mohammed, the country's Ambassador to Libya for consultations over Moumah Ghadaffi's outbursts on Nigeria. "The Federal Government of Nigeria has recalled its ... Saturday, 20 March 2010 -
Muhammed Ali has Irish ancestors?
Category: African Diaspora/African America
On September 1st 2009 boxing legend Muhammed Ali visited his ancestral home in Ireland. See the story and the pics here. Muhammed Ali though he got his European blood due to slavery (see video), but it ... Friday, 22 January 2010 -
Super Antibodies Against HIV Discovered in African Countries
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda, as well as from Thailand, Australia, the US and UK. How it works Antibodies are infection-fighting protein molecules that tag, neutralize ... Saturday, 05 December 2009 -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - An African Positive Ambassador
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
Inspired by Nigerian history and tragedies all but forgotten by recent generations of westerners, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels and stories are jewels in the crown of diasporan ... Sunday, 11 October 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
... South African commencing such well-thought out African visits accompanied with specifics of policies and programs, sundry initiatives and Nigeria as first prong of course. Additionally, such African visit ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
Barack Obama in Ghana - His Official Speech
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... health in their communities and countries. Across Africa, we see examples of people tackling these problems. In Nigeria, an Interfaith effort of Christians and Muslims has set an example of cooperation ... Sunday, 06 September 2009 -
First Amoured Vehicle Constructed By Nigerians
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
A Nigerian made armoured car was launched by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua at the eagle square in Abuja, last week. It is the first locally manufactured armoured carrier, with most of the materials used ... Saturday, 05 September 2009 -
No Nuclear Nonsense On African Soil
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
... Coast, Kenya, Libya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo and Zimbabwe. Other nuclear-weapons-free pacts ... Saturday, 05 September 2009 -
Onitsha-Nigeria: Efforts Yield Fruits In The Battle Against Crime
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
A community in one southeastern Nigerian city is joining forces with the police in hopes of making their home a safer place to live.Onitsha is a bustling commercial hub on the banks of the River Niger, ... Monday, 24 August 2009 -
Ethnic Discrimination in Europe (Part Two)
Category: Researcherˊs Page/ Social Justice & Human Rights
... A total of 66 cases of ill-treatment of detainees, including Albanians, Nigerians, and Romans, were reported. Amnesty International sees this was only the tip of the iceberg. Furthermore, during December ... Friday, 07 August 2009 -
About us
Category: Our Nework/EACN TEAM
... the EAC is contributing immensely to the realisation of a free, liberal, multicultural and informed society. The EAC Projects: The EAC is piloting an ENLIGHTENMENT Forum in Nigeria ... Friday, 19 June 2009 -
EAC USA Correspondent: Gyavira Lasana writes on his experiences in China
Category: African Diaspora/African Asia
... stay in China. DVDs here cost about 75 cents and often feature films before they are released in America. Next day, I attended a party across the yard and met a couple of other teachers: Joe, a young Nigerian ... Thursday, 30 October 2008 -
Royal recognition of Rotary maternal health project in Nigeria
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
By Matthias Schütt In a Turbanning Ceremony on August 8, 2008, His Royal Highness, the Emir of Zazzau (Nigeria) awarded the traditional title of „Shahon Zazzau“ to German Past-Gov. Robert Zinser at the ... Sunday, 26 October 2008 -
Black Inventors: A Book Reveals Unknown Africans
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... The author Keith C. Holmes has spent some twenty years researching information on inventions by Black people from such places as Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, ... Thursday, 02 October 2008 -
What is the Future of Food Security in Africa?
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... of crops, such as corn, for use in making bio-fuels. Street protests and riots over food prices have already been witnessed in Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia, Mexico, ... Saturday, 02 August 2008 -
2008 East African Beauty Pageant kicks off in London
Category: Editorial Desk /Special Suppliment
... Janelle Oswald, Nigerian top designer Adebayo Jones, Director of Mahogany group Sola Oyebade, Youth Member of Parliament Acie Marshal, popular BEN TV Presenter Trish Adudu, BBC Radio presenter DJ Edu and ... Sunday, 29 June 2008 -
International Literature Festival Berlin 2008
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... (Togo/F) Nuruddin Farah (Somalia/South Africa) Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone/GB) Piet Grobler (South Africa) Helon Habila (Nigeria/USA) Leonie Joubert (South Africa) Uazuvara Ewald Katjivena (Namibia/Norway) ... Tuesday, 20 May 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 -
A New Dawn in the Legal Profession in Cameroon
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... Many university students as result had to change their vocation others travelled abroad for further studies in the legal profession and never came to practice. Those who went to neighboring Nigeria were ... Friday, 16 November 2007 -
How European Oil Companies Commit Environmental Genocide in Nigeria
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... slaves, and. Later, palm oil, Port Harcourt is now the heartland of Nigeria’s oil industry. As we flew into Port Harcourt, several members of our delegation noticed the telltale sign of the type ... Friday, 12 October 2007 -
Nigeria: The Last of Africa's pseudo-Federations
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
By Mazi Kevin Ani When forecasters of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) predicted the total collapse of Nigeria within 15 years, all hell broke lose. The reactions of the key players ... Friday, 12 October 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 -
Meet the EuroAfricaCentral Network Team
Category: Our Nework/EACN TEAM
... Chris Ezeh - BA (Hons) Mass Communication Chris is the founder/CEO of the EuroAfricaCentral Network and Chief Editor and publisher of The EACN Magazine Online. He studied in Nigeria and Germany ... Monday, 27 August 2007 -
Diaspora Africans Remember Motherland
Category: African Diaspora/African America
... in African affairs Africans in diaspora have contributed immensely to their host nations. Nigeria’s Philip Emeagwali, for instance, was described as “a father of the internet” by CNN ... Monday, 30 July 2007 -
Our African Diaspora Series: London's Black writers of the18th. Century
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... the narratives were allied to the abolitionist cause. Olaudah Equiano had been a child in what is now Nigeria, then a slave in America and the West Indies before becoming a free man in London. His ... Sunday, 03 June 2007 -
G8 Summit 2007 & Europe-Africa Relations: The Issues at Stake
Category: Editorial Desk /The West You Never See In Africa
... challenges the supremacy of the Western aid-development model. In 2005, China committed more than $8 billion in lending to Nigeria, Angola and Mozambique - a year when the World Bank spent ... Saturday, 02 June 2007 -
African History Theme Park takes off in Nigeria
Category: Positive Africa/Africa You Never See In Western Countries
Abuja, Nigeria: Tourism in Africa and particularly in Nigeria is about to get a boost with the construction of an African History Theme Park in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Heritage City otherwise known ... Monday, 02 April 2007 -
Our African Writers Series: Chinua Achebe
Category: Positive Africa/Arts and Culture
Chinua Achebe, born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet, whose works explore the impact of European culture on African society. Achebe's unsentimental, often ironic books vividly convey the traditions ... Monday, 19 March 2007 -
An African makes breakthrough in GM-car design
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
Jelani Aliyu, a Nigerian working at the US-based world’s largest automaker, General Motors (GM) plant in Detroit, has recorded a major breakthrough in the automotive industry in the US, with the design ... Saturday, 27 January 2007 -
Where is Africa Going Wrong? - Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty
Category: Researcherˊs Page/Poverty, Aid & Internationalism
... colony of Nigeria, Emeagwali was among the two million Igbos who fled persecution during the country’s 30-month civil war to the safety of Biafran refugee camps. One million people died during this war. ... Sunday, 17 December 2006 -
“No development is possible if it is not from all and for all"
Category: Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion
... at the moment, more than 3000 members in Togo, Nigeria, and Senegal and also in Germany (all working voluntarily for the betterment of their environment and for others) and I am called ' Coordinator' in ... Saturday, 11 November 2006 -
Reuters joins the campaign for a positive news on Africa
Category: African Diaspora/Echo Africa
... He was recently admitted as a fellow of Royal Society of England. Professor Emeagwali, a world acclaimed computer scientist of Nigerian origin, has been described as the ‘Bill Gates of Africa’ by pundits ... Thursday, 10 August 2006 -
Cuban Epke Rediscovered its Roots in Nigeria
Category: Positive Africa/Historical Facts
... lands. Epke, an age-long traditional sacred institution, was one of such, planted culture. Epke is a secret society, open to men in Calabar region of eastern Nigeria. The society, from the Calabar ... 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
... studied Materials and metallurgical Engineering (B.Engr -Nigeria), Material science (MSc - TUHH, Germany) and works presently as a scientific staff at Research centre, GKSS Forschungszentrum, Germany. ... Friday, 23 June 2006 -
Philip Emeagwali: An African Innovator breaks barriers
Category: Positive Africa/Africans In Science
... time, that an African young man who has just left his country for studies in the USA will 20 years later, make Marleyˊs prophecy a reality. He was born in 1957 in Nigeria. His school experience ... Sunday, 07 May 2006 -
African Diaspora Congress 2004 -Berlin:
Category: African Diaspora/African Europe
... (Germany) 13.30 Round Table Discussion cbN Black Media Network with Abdel Rahman Satti (Germany), Michael Küppers (Germany), Branwen Okpako (Nigeria/ Germany), J.N. Edjabe (Cameroon/ SA), Letebele Masemola ... Sunday, 07 May 2006 -
NewsLIinks-Africa
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... The Punch, NigerianWorld-News from the States, The Nigerian Daily Times, The Vanguard Online Edition, Daily Champion, This Day on the web. IrinNews Daily Sun FoolsCap Daily Independent Nigerian Sports/Cybereagles Abuja ... -
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