January 21, 2013 /
Nicolas Roux
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ARTS & CULTURE
Pedro Kouyaté is not a typical griot artist. In West Africa, griots are the guardians of oral tradition. They can be historians, storytellers or musicians. Pedro was born of griot ancestors but he has grown tired of this world. His mind wanders elsewhere. When he was younger he rather enjoyed hanging out at Siby, his…
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December 16, 2012 /
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FASHION
London-based fashion designer Samantha-Jane Agbontaen, who specialises in luxury womenswear with eco-values, is to showcase her collection at Berlin Fashion week in the New Year. Samantha Jane is renowned for creating unique, feminine and alluring designs form women who enjoy wearing exquisite clothing. The brand, Fabryan, was developed in September 2010 with its studio in…
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December 7, 2012 /
Marilyn Scarlett
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BOOKS
This book explores black male/female relationships in the west and suggests seven steps to solving the crisis in relationships based on secondary research, personal stories and opinions gathered from a wide cross-section of people. It touches on some really important issues about building and maintaining sustainable relationships. The seven steps outlined give some interesting, practical…
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November 19, 2012 /
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BOOKS
Habeeb Akande is the author of a recently published book called Illuminating the Darkness: Blacks and North Africans in Islam, that seeks to critically address the issue of racial discrimination and colour prejudice in religious history. After graduating with a first class honours degree in business and film studies from Kingston University, Habeeb headed to…
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November 6, 2012 /
Francis Tuokuu
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
Education is the key to success and the bedrock of the development of every nation including those of Africa. One does not need to be an expert in education or hold a doctorate degree in education to know that the future of Ghana’s education is in jeopardy and this in my view should be blamed…
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October 29, 2012 /
Francis Tuokuu
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
Photograph by Worldreader. A World Bank report in 2008 revealed that, "Only 1 out of 19 countries studied (Botswana) had adequate textbook provision at close to a 1:1 ratio for all subjects and all grades" in the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa which means there are inadequate textbooks on the continent for school children to read….
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October 26, 2012 /
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BOOKS
When the London riots of August 2011 started to spread across different parts of the country, people questioned whether or not the riots were really about the shooting of a young black man by the police. That is open to debate, but what is unquestionable is that there are segments of society that are disengaged…
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