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// January 18th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Africa
Positive affirmations are absolute statements that you consistently say to yourself. If you echo these statements you will will actualize absolute subconscious thoughts. In turn, these absolute hidden thoughts will actualize will create a positive subconscious mind. Your mind controls every aspect of your life.
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// October 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Tech
Airtel has announced that you can now send updates to your Twitter account from the mobile phone itself via SMS.
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// October 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa
Check out Googles new doodle. The Barcode.
Google's new Doodle: The Barcode
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// September 13th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Africa, Life
If you are like me and can understand the lingo, you were probably cracking up while watching District 9, while everybody else around you was sitting in silence, asking why the guy next to them is laughing their butt off! It is because of the slang and language that is used in District 9, is understood all Southern Africans and thus its complexity.
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// August 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa, Economy
The African continent continues to show potential as a leading foreign direct investment destination for American businesses, despite the economic downturn nations around the globe are currently experiencing.
According to the IMF, Africa is still expected to maintain a positive growth rate of 3.4% for 2009, an impressive achievement for the continent. The continent is seeing increasingly higher levels of investment in industries such as infrastructure, financing, tourism, agribusiness, health, and energy.
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// August 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-organized technology workshop, International Design and Development Summit (IDDS) wraps up in Ghana tomorrow, August 12.
Since July 8, an eclectic blend of innovative doers — ranging from scientists to artists, from more than 20 countries, have been mingling and working hard to create prototypes in Kumasi, Ghana.
As explained by MIT newsletter,
“IDDS is an intensive project in which the participants form teams to tackle specific problems through simple technologies, generally using materials and manufacturing methods that can be easily obtained on-site at low cost in rural villages”.
The idea is to co-create within five weeks, prototypes (example rice thresher in photo above) that the local community of Kumasi, and the greater poorer communities of the world, can put to use in their daily lives. The co-creating process involved selecting 12 focus projects ranging from water, sanitation, agriculture, manufacturing and energy production.
One of the many fascinating prototypes created deals with water safety. A team of created a low cost, low tech, system to generate chlorine for water purification.
Quoting the IDDS blog writes, “clean water and high levels of hygiene are crucial for both short term and long term health for communities in the developing world and the teams were aware of the gravity of the projects they were working on. Two teams focused on Chlorine, one on production and one on dosing…”
Catch more of IDDS summit and ideas on their blog: http://iddsummit.blogspot.com/
Reposted from Source: AfricanLoft
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// August 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa
Entrepreneur magazine, did an interesting article on how mobilty has fueled entreprenuership throughout the years and came up with an interesting timeline of it all.
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// August 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa, Economy
India’s Emami Biotech will invest $80 million in Ethiopia to make bio-fuel while another Indian company, Anmol Products, has opened a $5-million paper factory, the Ethiopian government said in a press release on Monday.
“The first phase of the project has already begun at Awash Sebat Kilo some 250 km east of the capital Addis Ababa growing Jatropha, sunflower, castor, pulses and various herbs at a cost of $24-million,” the government said.
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// August 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa, Economy
Tourism has been hit by the Global reccession in Zambia. Zambia Chronicle reports…
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// July 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa, Randomness
I have just started a revamped look on my BBQ blog, bbqmasala.com and to kick things off I decided to write about a recipe that has made south africa very famous worldwide. It all started at a restaurant in South Africa, called Nando’s and the rest is history.
Link after the jump.
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