Topic: Africa

Fascinating Profiles of Love (or the Lack Thereof) at Work

Here's another article about love at work--this time from Africa. The quick stories are moving and revealing. For example: "I would not be doing [my job] if I did not enjoy it. I think job satisfaction is important or else you ...READ»

Questions for Dambisa Moyo

Tweeting Fast Company readers take on the Zambian economist and author of the book "Dead Aid", who talks about making chocolate, fighting AIDS, and her friend Chris HughesREAD»

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Africa's Newest Rock Star

In the race for renewable energy, the spotlight is on Africa, with Jatropha Circas quickly becoming the super-crop of choice. Jatropha bushes grow across the continent, from Ghana to South Africa, but Africans have never paid much ...READ»

Choose Your Wedding Jewelry Rings With Care And Love

A wedding chime is the partner of your life, hence you should always take your wedding band according to your leaning, and it should be such so that you can show it all the time for your undivided life. The custom of the switch of the ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest Week 2

Subscribe to Appfrica by Email   Nicco Mele Launches NewsJunk.com Nicco’s career began as a member of the technical staff for various political campaigns, in particular the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean, ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 4

Subscribe to Appfrica by Email Forbes Calls Africa The ‘Last Investment Frontier’ “In 1989, there were just five sub-Saharan stock exchanges; now there are 16." - Forbes, John Christy Africa Thriving ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 8

Subscribe to Appfrica via E-mail Ugandan Students Translating Firefox into Local Languages Students in Uganda begin translating Firefox into local African languages. Alltop.com Notices Africa News Aggregation services ...READ»

Networks in the Developing World

Lane Smith coordinates the USAID's Leland Initiative, an effort to extend full Internet connectivity to more than 20 African countries in order to promote sustainable development. Rahul Tongia is a research engineer of engineering ...READ»

Mining Copper in Zambia

I ask Xiao Ye, an Africa statistical researcher for the World Bank, whether a clear chart or table exists laying out the full extent of China's economic involvement in Africa. "I don't know anyone who has done such a ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest Week 1

Ushahidi featured in MIT’s Top 10 Start-Ups To Watch The GIS service for tracking incidents of unrest in violence in Kenya, Ushahidi, has been featured in MIT’s Technology Review as on of the Top 10 Start-Ups to Watch… ...READ»

Special Report: China Storms Africa

With its resource-hungry push into the sub-Sahara, Beijing puts the planet to the test.READ»

GlaxoSmithKline Fights Malaria in Africa with Satellites

Malaria kills one million people a year, most of them children in Africa's so-called Malaria Belt (the sub-Saharan region). In partnership with the Gates Foundation, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing an ambitious ...READ»

China Surpasses U.S. as Leader in Sub-Sahara

That the West is losing the sub-Sahara does not come as news in Africa itself. One leader after another has been explicit on this point, from Senegal's president ("Today, it is very clear that Europe is close to losing the ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 10

Subscribe to Appfrica via E-mail | Appfrica.org A Breakdown of the Costs of Doing Business in Africa The goal of this article is to provide insight for those of you interested in starting businesses in Africa. I’ll break down ...READ»

Designed for Life

Industrial designers gathered at an elite conference last week to meld their veneration of the new and fashionable with an appreciation for the old and lasting -- namely, the necessities for designing a meaningful life.READ»

Inside PopTech's Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: Testing Across Africa

In the fourth installment of our story about a new product collaboration between PopTech, Timbuk2 Designs, and the Portable Light Project, White African's Erik Hersman takes the FLAP prototype to Africa for testing.READ»

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China Saps Mozambique of Timber Resources

In a 4x4 vehicle arranged by a local group that monitors Mozambique's forests, I travel to Maganja da Costa in the once-heavily-wooded Zambezia province, the country's poorest. Maganja is a tiny district, a five-hour drive along ...READ»

Pessimism and Poverty

The fact that the Live 8 concerts overshadowed the G8 conference underscores the real problem with extreme poverty in the world; It's hard to get people to care. Twenty years ago when Live Aid and USA for Africa's "We are the World" ...READ»

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China in Africa We warned that Richard Behar's groundbreaking article on China's resource grab in Africa in the June issue was the longest piece this magazine has ever published, so we were happy to hear from so many readers who ...READ»

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American Public Health Association Annual Meeting

The APHA's choice of water as its theme this year -- the "21st-century challenge," the group says -- may make you think of drought in India or desertification in Africa. But it wants you to think about you: A clean water supply is ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 9

Subscribe to Appfrica via E-mail | Appfrica.org The Next 2 Billion: The China/Africa Connection Explored The combined populations of China and the fifty-three countries that make up Africa account for well over 2 billion people or ...READ»

Bono, Beware: Dambisa Moyo on Aid, Microfinance, and the Problem of Celebs in Africa

The Zambian economist and author of the new book "Dead Aid" explains her beef with the U2 frontman, her love for the Chinese, and her high hopes for her home continent.READ»

Ericsson, Orange Sending Solar-Powered Cell Coverage to Africa

While many of us struggle to tear ourselves away from computers and cell phones, communities in rural Africa deal with a different problem: lack of communication. Orange Guinea Conakry and Ericcson announced last week a plan ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 6

Subscribe to Appfrica via E-mail Google Invests in Kenya’s Mobile Planet This week Google made the announcement that it is making a minority stake investment into Kenyan mobile operating company Mobile Planet… Google ...READ»