Sociolingo's Africa BlogSociolingo's Africa BlogNews, images and comments about Africa. I live in Mali in West Africa and I collect news and information about African countries. I hope you find something here that interests you. I usually include short snippets from websites and newsletters in ord Articles
Sao Tome and Principe IMF: Working Paper No. 08/118: The Choice of Monetary
2008-05-12 09:58:00 Working Paper No. 08/118: The Choice of Monetary and Exchange Rate Arrangements for a Small, Open, Low-Income Economy: The Case of Sao Tome and Principe Author/Editor: Wang, Jian-Ye ; Ronci, Márcio Valério ; Farhan, Nisreen ; Takebe, Misa ; Shanghavi, Amar Summary: This paper assesses São Tomé and Príncipe’s monetary and exchange rate arrangements in light of ... More About: African economy , Working
Niger IMF: Country Report No. 08/149: Niger: Poverty Reduction Strategy Pap
2008-05-12 09:54:00 Country Report No. 08/149: Niger : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/long res.cfm?sk=21938.0 More About: Country
Though making ?very good progress,? Africa still faces challenges, says UN
2008-05-11 16:02:00 Source: UN Though making ?very good progress,? Africa still faces challenges, says UN official 9 May 2008 ? Africa is making ?very good progress,? but must tackle challenges in areas including transportation, infrastructure and water, a senior United Nations said today, as the annual Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) is under way in New York.Kathleen Abdalla, Officer-in-Charge ... More About: Faces , Progress , Good
UNESCO - 2008 Biennale on Education in Africa: looking beyond primary educa
2008-05-11 15:58:00 2008 Biennale on Education in Africa : looking beyond primary education http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev. php-URL_ID=56452&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC& URL_SECTION=201.html The 2008 Biennale on Education in Africa, the foremost education meeting in the region, is under way in Maputo, Mozambique (May 5-9, 2008). Discussions will focus on post-primary education, one of the principal challenges facing education systems in Africa today. Some 600 stakeholders, including all African ministers of ... More About: Primary , UNESCO , 2008
UNESCO- EDUCATION FOR ALL BY 2015: WILL WE MAKE IT?
2008-05-11 15:55:00 Education for All - Global Monitoring Report EDUCATION FOR ALL BY 2015: WILL WE MAKE IT? http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev. php-URL_ID=49591&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC& URL_SECTION=201.html A mid-term assessment of where the world stands on its commitment to provide basic education for all children, youth and adults by 2015. What education policies and programmes have been successful? What are the main challenges? How much aid is needed? Is ... More About: Education , Make , UNESCO
Commission on Sustainable Development told of need to incorporate climate c
2008-05-11 13:02:00 Source: African Press Organization 9 May 2008 Commission on Sustainable Development Sixteenth Session 10th & 11th Meetings (AM & PM) Commission on Sustainable Development told of need to incorporate climate change strategies into africa?s bid to close gap between potential, productivity Efforts to close the persistent gap between Africa?s potential and its current stagnant economic growth and declining agricultural productivity must ... More About: Climate , Incorporate , African economy
African agriculture:press conference on ideas for realizing african agricul
2008-05-11 12:15:00 Source: African Press Organization 9 May 2008 press conference on ideas for realizing african agricultural potential Africa presented a ?fantastic opportunity? to complement and stabilize the global food system with small-farmer production in ways not foreseen at present, Peter Hartmann of the Nigeria-based International Institute for Tropical Agriculture said today at a Headquarters press conference. Floating ideas and hopes ... More About: Ideas , Press Conference , Conference
Baltimore Museum of Art - Curator for African Art wanted
2008-05-11 12:09:00 Cross-posted from H-West-Africa list. Discussion is closed for this post, apply to the contact shown in the post Location: Maryland, United States Institution Type: Nonprofit Position Type: Museum Education Submitted: Monday, April 28th, 2008 Department for Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands Overview: The BMA is seeking a dynamic and innovative Curator and Department Head for African Art to ... More About: African art , Baltimore , Wanted
Sudan, Malawi: Battling to take death out of birth
2008-05-11 12:02:00 The following extracts are from an article which shows how a small-scale programme can make a huge difference. It contrasts Sudan and Malawi which nationally have terrifying maternal mortality statistics. Notice in the Malawi example that it is the action of a village that has made the difference. This is a groundroots community led movement, ... More About: Death , Birth
African films: Beginnings of African cinema
2008-05-11 11:49:00 Cross-posted from H-Africa list Contributed by Kenneth Harrow To my surprise, I’ve learned that Afrique sur Seine is not the first African film — here is what I’ve read — from: http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia /Academy-Awards-Crime-Films /Africa-South- of-the-Sahara-BEGINNINGS.html Cinema first came to the French-colonized territories of Africa south of the Sahara in 1900 when a French circus group projected the Lumière brothers’ “L’arroseur arrosé” (Watering the Gardener, 1895) in ...
Niger: National hospital gets oxygen production unit
2008-05-11 11:42:00 Source: APA Niger national hospital gets oxygen production unit (2008-05-10 20:18:49) APA - Niamey (Niger) The public health authorities of Niger on Saturday received a new oxygen production unit with a capacity of 24 bottles per day for the benefit of the national hospital of Niamey (HNN) Read the full story ... More About: National , Hospital , Production , Oxygen
Providing access to good education for pastoral groups in Sudan
2008-05-10 16:07:00 Source: id21 Providing access to good education for pastoral groups in Sudan Internationally, there is growing awareness that the target of Education for All by 2015 will not be met unless efforts are made to improve access for marginalised, hard-to-reach children. These include those from nomadic and pastoralist groups. What are ... More About: Access , Good , Groups
Practical financial management for NGO?s: course handbook
2008-05-10 16:04:00 Source: ELDIS Practical financial management for NGO’s: course handbook Authors: Lewis,T Produced by: Mango (2006) NGOs operate in a rapidly changing and competitive world. If their organisations are to survive in this challenging environment, managers need to develop the necessary understanding and confidence to make full use of financial management tools. Financial management is a complicated task which many ... More About: Management , Handbook , Financial Management
African archaeology: Which country has the largest collection of pyramids?
2008-05-10 16:01:00 Source: Al-Ahram In the reign of the Black Pharaohs Which country has the largest collection of pyramids? Think again, for it is not Egypt , but Sudan . Join Mohamed El-Hebeishy as he visits north Sudan in search of answers Click to view caption the Northern Cemetery in Meroe, where more than 30 pyramids are in site Our great ... More About: Country , Archaeology , Pyramids
COTE D?IVOIRE: Centre offers children health and hope
2008-05-09 12:48:00 Source: IRIN NEWS COTE D’IVOIRE: Centre offers children health and hope BOUAKE, 8 May (IRIN) - A straw hut in the courtyard of the Ariel Glaser Paediatric Centre in Bouake is filled with children of all ages playing or eating meals prepared by the centre’s cook, all under the watchful eye of relatives. This special space for children ... More About: Health , Children , Hope , Offers , Ivory Coast
BENIN: The end of river blindness
2008-05-09 11:20:00 Source: IRIN NEWS BENIN: The end of river blindness COTONOU, 8 May (IRIN) - Twenty years ago Benin was among the countries in West Africa most affected by endemic river blindness. Today the disease, which causes blindness and chronic skin irritation and is blamed for stunting economic growth of the populations it affects, has been almost completely ... More About: River , Blindness
Malawi: Free AIDS drugs slash death rate
2008-05-09 11:17:00 Source: AlertNet Free AIDS drugs slash death rate in Malawi study 08 May 2008 23:01:03 GMT <!– 08 May 2008 23:01:03 GMT ## for search indexer, do not remove –> Source: Reuters By Ben Hirschler LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Providing free AIDS drugs to people in northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating a recent ... More About: Drugs , Slash , Death
Commission on Sustainable Development considers how to help africa better m
2008-05-09 11:09:00 Source: Africa n Press Organization 8 May 2008 Commission on Sustainable Development Sixteenth Session 8th & 9th Meetings (AM & PM) Commission on Sustainable Development considers how to help africa better manage natural resources, boost agricultural productivity, modernize infrastructure With many African economies heavily dependent on agriculture ? a climate-sensitive sector highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks ? the Commission on ... More About: Foreign Aid
Many Culprits in Food Crisis
2008-05-09 11:00:00 The following post is contributed by Dave Donelson. Although it is not Africa-specific I feel it may be of interest to those following the current food crisis in African countries. Many Culprits in Food Crisis Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds Culprits on both the supply and the demand side have caused the current ... More About: Foreign Aid
African blog and website: Strengthening Managing for Impact
2008-05-08 20:47:00 An interesting programme funded by IFAD funded is ‘Strengthening Managing for Impact (SMIP)’ in eastern & southern Africa. They work with pro-poor initiatives and development aid programmes to try and bring about a shift in the way they?re managed, from activities to impact; from a top-down perspective to a bottom up one. A key part ... More About: Website , Blog , African
Senegal: 17 people in Casamance attacked and ears sliced off
2008-05-08 19:19:00 A sad story is emerging from the Casamance region of Senegal . 17 people picking cashew nuts in the village of Tampe near the Guinea-Bissau border had their left ears sliced off by unidentified attackers on the 7th May. According to AllAfrica.com the attackers claimed to belong to Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance ... More About: People , Ears , Attacked
Mali, Guinea: Ali Farka Toure lives on!
2008-05-08 15:14:00 Posted by sociolingo on May 8, 2008 I know a lot of you guys already know this, but I am finding out what a rich source of cultural material YouTube is! Whilst trying to get together a post on a Jazz festival in Guinea in honour of the Mali an guitarist Ali Farka Toure , who sadly died ... More About: African music , Lives
Burkina Faso to harvest 4.2 million tons of cereals this year
2008-05-07 23:21:00 Source: APA Burkina Faso to harvest 4.2 million tons of cereals this year APA-Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Burkina Faso anticipates harvesting almost 4,231,479 tons of cereals this year, representing a 13 percent growth rate compared to last year, Agriculture, Hydraulics and halieutic resources ministry officials said. The ministry announced it would give producers 4,000 tons of improved ... More About: Cereals , Million , Harvest , Year
African health: AFM PLoS One Bad Malaria Drugs Study
2008-05-07 18:31:00 From Africa Fighting Malaria AFM’s study of antimalarial drug quality in six major African cities is now live on PLoS One: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi %2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002132 Reuters India has provided a nice summary: http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idIN N0651796020080507 Study Abstract: A range of antimalarial drugs were procured from private pharmacies in urban and peri-urban areas in the major cities of six African ... More About: Health , Drugs
Mauritania: farmers urged to grow food, cut imports
2008-05-06 15:47:00 Source: AlertNet ROSSO, Mauritania , May 6 (Reuters) - Mauritania’s president wants peasant farmers to cultivate more land and grow more food to reduce its overwhelming dependence on costly imports, and insists the Saharan country could one day be self-sufficient. Launching Mauritania’s 2008/09 agricultural season on Monday in Rosso, on the fertile northern bank of the Senegal river, ... More About: Food , Grow , Imports , Farmers
Nigeria: Romance books in Nigeria?s Muslim north address the meaning of lov
2008-05-06 15:29:00 Source: Kuwait Times Each evening, headscarf-shrouded women seeking romantic advice gather at book stalls lining a rush-hour intersection in Nigeria’s Islamic heartland. With the sun setting red behind a nearby mosque, the women thumb through northern Nigeria’s unique, female-authored literary offerings: cheaply bound but popular volumes that address issues confronting women in a Shariah society: courtship, ... More About: Books , Muslim , African writers , Romance , North
Nigeria: The search for a true Igbo National Attire
2008-05-05 22:36:00 I’ve been discovering more African bloggers. The Long Harmattan Season is a Nigeria n blogger who writes informed comment about many aspects of life. One article that caught my eye was about The search for a true Igbo National Attire In Nigeria, there is no better way to identify people from the different ethnic regions than through their ... More About: Search , True
Nigeria: Igbo spirituality
2008-05-05 22:24:00 The Igbo are a people group of Nigeria . An interesting article about Igbo spirituality can be found on Assata Shakur Forums. Igbo spirituallity by Onyi Anyiwo The spiritual system of Ndi Igbo (the Igbo people) is one of the oldest on Earth. The roots of Igbo spirituality is the same as the roots of every other ... More About: Spirituality
African book review: French Colonialism Unmasked - The Vichy Years in Frenc
2008-05-05 21:37:00 Source: H-French -Colonial@h-net.msu.edu H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by H-French-Colonial@h-net.msu.edu (May 200 Ruth Ginio. “French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa”. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xviii + 243 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8032-2212-2; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8032-1746-1. Review ed for H-French-Colonial by Richard S. Fogarty, Department of History, University at Albany, State ... More About: Book Review , Book
Senegal: Abolish wasteful world food body says Senegal?s Wade
More articles from this author:2008-05-05 20:54:00 Source: AlertNet DAKAR, May 5 (Reuters) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation is an inefficient money-gobbler and should be replaced by foreign investment and assistance to help Africa end its food aid dependency, Senegal ’s president said. In a speech late on Sunday, President Abdoulaye Wade called the Rome-based FAO, created in 1945, a “bottomless pit of ... More About: Body , World 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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