Share So the World Cup is almost over….. Every Four years this wonderful tournament graces our Football loving world. A true celebration of national pride, culture & of course football. In an attempt to embrace all that is great about World Cup South Africa 2010. A band of 4 brothers (well good friends) from the little known »
Share The black star in the middle of the gold stripe gives the Ghana national football team their nickname, the Black Stars. The flag of Ghana was designed and first used upon the attainment of independence in 1957. The red represents the blood of those who died in the country’s struggle for independence, the gold represents the »
Share The rapidly declining forest cover in Africa is a cause for great worry, with countries at the margins of the Sahara engaged in a furious battle to stave off desertification- the Sahara is advancing! In Kenya the forest cover has drastically reduced from 40 percent to 6.1 percent, leading to longer and longer drought cycles; »
Share This series is a voyeuristic compilation exploring innovation and creativity at the ‘margins’ of the contemporary African society. Africa has long been known as the continent of 4Ds- Disease, Despair, Destruction and Death. Nevertheless, Myweku set out to explore how ordinary individuals in the backstreets of East Africa are solving modern problems by means of »
Share Eleven ancient churches carved from solid rock can be seen at Lalibela, northern Ethiopia. These architectural wonders are named after a 12th century king who aspired to build a ‘New Jerusalem’. Lalibela is a UNESCO World Heritage site, visited annually by thousands of pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. The city of Aksum became »
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From Afroklectic: I am Gillean Opoku an Australian-Ghanaian design student. I was born in Australia to Ghanaian parents. I decided to create ‘afroklectic’ as a platform for African creatives around the world (esp. Australia) to showcase their creativity whether in design, fashion, art, music, poetry etc. When it comes to creativity in Africa, it is »
Share In 2004 as most people will recall, Kenya’s Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize for her sterling work on the environment. Wangari Maathai started a campaign to plant tens of millions of trees across East Africa. Gashaw Tahir, an Ethiopian, seems to be following in the footsteps of Wangari Maathai »
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The factual origins of the plant and its use in beverages are, unfortunately, lost to the murky mists of time. However, there is a coffee legend that has taken hold and, rather than skip right to history, it bears repeating because of the interesting visuals it conjures up. In about 850 AD, sometime in the morning, »
Share Is it an affront to society that billionaires exist in the first place and is it wrong for the rest of us, “mere” mortals to glorify their “achievements” with rich lists? What does being a billionaire mean? Is it a character flaw to engage in endless acquisition of wealth? Will society benefit more if such »
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Many people occasionally think about where they came from. When they do, they think mostly about their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. This is where the trail runs out for most folks, unless they have done some research into their ancestry. This article skips a couple of thousand of those inconvenient, hard to research generations and »
