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The New York Times’ alarmist ..

   A thought provoking New York Times article entitled  “Nigeria Tested by Rapid Rise in Population” has had the dubious effect of causing some to froth at
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“You can’t come here with Europ..

Dear John, I listened to your reports from Liberia on The Today programme this morning with growing fury. I am not angry because your reporting
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The African Perspective: The Kony20..

Kony 2012 is a short film created by Invisible Children, Inc. and released on March 5, 2012 to highlight the plight of the victims of
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Defending the giant African snail a..

The American State of Florida has declared an all out war against the giant African snail. As a bonafide connoisseur of this species of snails perhaps
This map on a page from the Facebook social network site displays friendships as lights on a deep blue background. The eastern half of the United States and Europe shine the brightest, while China, Russia and central Africa, where Facebook has little presence, are mainly dark. But data shows Facebook user growth rate is increasing in Africa. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images

What Facebook’s IPO could mea..

. With the IPO, Mr Zuckerberg will be under immense pressure to turn facebook into a cash-generating powerhouse. As he has stated publicly before “the thing I really care about
Apartheid mastermind Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , getting of a horse-drawn carriage. Verwoerd was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.

Did apartheid make South Africa the..

Most people both sane and insane would probably say NO. I suspect their answer would perhaps be more influenced by the morality of apartheid rather
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US Presidential candidates’ v..

US presidential candidates are not necessarily expected to know an awful lot about Africa, at least not be their own electorate. However, as we pointed
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#OccupyNigeria: The Story so far; E..

It all started on January 1, 2011 when the announcement of #Fuel Subsidy Removal by the federal government sent everyone into a crazy frenzy, people
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INTERVIEW: Nicholas Ibekwe an organ..

On the 1st of January 2012, the Nigerian government removed fuel subsidy that had kept petroleum prices in Nigeria low. The removal led to petrol prices
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1% own social media companies while..

Facebook use is growing at a faster rate in Africa than on any other continent. Infact according ICTWorks it is doubling every 7 months! That
South African President Jacob Zuma presents former President Nelson Mandela with a gift - an architect's rendering of the Nelson Mandela Legacy Bridge. Photo: Reuters

ANC celebrates 100th year aniversar..

The African National Congress (ANC) party  was born in a township church in 1912 and turns 100 years old on 8 January 2012 . That
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From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy N..

A few months ago and at the height of America’s Occupy Wall Street demonstrations we featured an African equivalent based in Kenya called Ocuppy Nairobi
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Fuel subsidy removal: Contrasting r..

Fuel subsidy removal by Nigeria, the reaction to and heated debates about the removal have been the rage in Nigeria in the past few days.
A woman walks past some of the hundreds of dead fish believed to have been killed as a result of the recent oil spill off the coast of Nigeria. Photo - George Esiri / EPA

Spreading the word about AfricaR..

The latest spill happened over the Christmas holidays. It is still ongoing. We wrote about it here and alerted readers to a petition created to help
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World’s E-waste finds home in..

The Scientific American  and informative and well research article on the dumpings grounds of the world’s Electronic Waste has. In the video below the publication shows how M.I.T.
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Should calls for the break up of Ni..

The death of Biafra leader and stalwart Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu in November 2011 seems to have galvanised some Nigerians into re-considering splitting the country into more