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January 17, 2008
15:55
The invisible computer revolution
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BBC
14:12
Nigerians are the Americans of Africa
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Written by my good friend Loomnie
January 16, 2008
0:19
Chinese businesses rile Lesotho locals
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A growing class of Chinese entrepreneurs is running small businesses in Africa. And Lesotho, one of the poorest countries in the world, has become a flash point for new tensions between local Africans and Chinese businesspeople. Read the text or listen to the podcast here.

Expect to see more of these squabbles. Are the Chinese folks really the problem?
0:06
Africa the fragile continent, the result of power-hungry dictators
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Mark writes a typical piece here. But fails to ask why these African leaders are power hungry dictators? I believe this is a more academically challenging question. My answer is; because they can be. Selfishness is a default human characteristics. The African environment has unfortunately encouraged these traits. I’d really like to see opinion pieces that make attempts at addressing or at least adding to the body of knowledge about African affairs. Everybody has an opinion of the things that are wrong with Africa.
January 15, 2008
23:32
Are wages too high in Africa?
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Chris’s Blog
22:37
World Bank Disgrace
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WSJ - This isn’t a surprise anyway “Corruption is an endemic problem in bank projects, swallowing unknown but significant chunks from its $30 billion-plus annual portfolio. No less a problem has been the bank staff’s ferocious resistance to anything that might stand in the way of its lending ever more money to projects run by the same governments that tolerate this malfeasance.”
10:19
Would you listen to ads, if the phone calls were free?
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[The attack of the ad-sponsored phone call]. I would, would you?
10:11
A nation of outlaws
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China is often in the news for its luke warm attitude towards counterfeiters and the breach of intellectual property right. Guess what, there is a precedence, the United States. What do you say Africa? The Boston Globe.
9:55
Bloggers are Africa’s new rebels
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Chicago Tribune - Gone are the days when Washington could control its messages in client states. The scruffy cyber cafes of Chad and the man in Congo who rents his cell phone by the minute — sometimes climbing atop a tree to improve reception — ensure that Washington’s voice will have to vie with those of the resource-hungry Chinese, or with the designs of Al Qaeda recruiters.
9:51
The Coming Revolution In Africa: Better Than you Think
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Chris - The math makes it simple: if a Kenya or Ghana or an Ethiopia is going to become a middle income country–and be able to sustain a homegrown education, health care, and social system–they are not going to make this leap without a dramatic jump in production and productivity. A jump that (if other countries are any guide) will only come from a manufacturing and (maybe) a service sector.

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