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29 Apr


CALL FOR PAPERS

Afro-Beat Journal (afro-beatjournal.org) is Diazepam With Alcohol Effects an new online journal, based out of NYU, devoted to the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects study of Global African artistic and cultural forms. It is an Diazepam With Alcohol Effects interactive, multimedia journal that will feature works on and the work of musicians, visual artists, painters, poets, and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects writers.

We invite scholars and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects practitioners to submit papers for the first issue of Afro-Beat Journal on the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects theme, “What is Afro-Beat?”… Although we take inspiration from Diazepam With Alcohol Effects the creative genius of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, our initial query is Diazepam With Alcohol Effects to open the dialogue between the various musical genres and their performative aspects. We welcome contributions that Diazepam With Alcohol Effects focus on the mediationĀ of these musics from Diazepam With Alcohol Effects Afro-pop worldwide to Hip Hop, as disseminated through various media such as radio, TV, cable or Diazepam With Alcohol Effects other forms of performance including live concerts, festivals, and theatre. We also welcome contributions from Diazepam With Alcohol Effects musicians, visual artists, writers, and poets that will enhance and expand our initial thematic focus, as well as relevant media content files on their works or Diazepam With Alcohol Effects in the form of interviews or discussion forums.

All submissions must follow MLA guidelines and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects are due June 15th, 2009.
Please send all submissions and inquiries to the editors at:
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28 Apr

Sometime ago I wrote a post about my efforts to understand the Nigerian oil industry. Some Next reporters have Diazepam With Alcohol Effects done an article on their efforts to understand the industry. Nobody seems to Diazepam With Alcohol Effects know how much Nigerian exports, or how much it makes from Diazepam With Alcohol Effects oil:

Even a Diazepam With Alcohol Effects cursory check by NEXT has revealed that various agencies of our government give conflicting figures of how much oil we produce and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects sell.

The Central Bank, the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects Ministry of Finance, the Department of Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) cannot agree on exactly what the numbers are.

And:

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, our state oil company which enters into joint ventures with the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects oil multinationals, even goes so far as to say on its website that Diazepam With Alcohol Effects it cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the sales figures it Diazepam With Alcohol Effects publishes.

The Central Bank, which receives the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects money on behalf of the Nigerian people, also would say nothing regarding the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects veracity of these numbers.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects industry regulator, makes the astonishing claim that it does not know the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects figures.

After more than Diazepam With Alcohol Effects two weeks of constant calls, text messages and email, the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects department’s acting director, Billy Agha, informed us through a Diazepam With Alcohol Effects spokesman that “we only corroborate what NNPC gives to us.”

Oil workers too do not know:

Even oil industry workers don’t have Diazepam With Alcohol Effects a clue. Peter Esele, former president of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, says, “Whatever information that Diazepam With Alcohol Effects is gotten from the NNPC is from the producers.

“One thing is Diazepam With Alcohol Effects clear, DPR does not even have the capacity to undergo or Diazepam With Alcohol Effects even know the quantity of crude. They don’t have a meter, they don’t have Diazepam With Alcohol Effects a measuring meter. Now, if you go to NNPC, the figure is Diazepam With Alcohol Effects different, DPR’s is different, producers’ different, CBN is Diazepam With Alcohol Effects different. So you cannot really reconcile all this.” Esele for a time had served in NEITI.

Peter Akpatason, president National Union of Petroleum and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects Natural Gas Workers, said: “Officially we don’t know. But we have Diazepam With Alcohol Effects access to the information each time we want to get them.

“But, it is not as if on daily basis, we get the figures. I’m sure you Diazepam With Alcohol Effects know that there is always discrepancy of some sort between what Diazepam With Alcohol Effects NNPC declares and what DPR declares.

“What somebody explained to Diazepam With Alcohol Effects us in DPR is that NNPC figure is taken at the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects point of production while DPR take theirs at the terminal.”

Really sad state of affairs. The full story is here.

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26 Apr

… Amartya Sen’s piece, Capitalism Beyond the Crisis, at the New York Times Book Review of Books website. He defends Adam Smith, cautions about Keynes and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects re-introduces Cecil Pigou. Which kinda made me ask why there was no Diazepam With Alcohol Effects mention of Polanyi.

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24 Apr

Iceland’s men wrecked the economy. Can women fix it?

Measuring the growth of new media.

The rise of the Beijing Consensus.

Why Time and Newsweek are not The Economist.

On the state of news magazines.

The Economist on South African elections.

Making ethics training ethnography-friendly.

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23 Apr

The theme of the Canadian Association of African Studies conference that will hold between May 4 and May 7 reads:

Striving for Diazepam With Alcohol Effects community is at the heart of ubuntu, the African philosophy that Diazepam With Alcohol Effects stresses mutual obligations and responsibility. From far-flung kinship networks, artisan guilds and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects women’s informal associations to Diazepam With Alcohol Effects regional or pan-African political movements, Africans across the ages have looked to Diazepam With Alcohol Effects communities to give meaning to their lives and to resolve conflict or Diazepam With Alcohol Effects find protection. Community is also close to the heart of Africanist scholars and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects activists outside of Africa who seek to support each other and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects to express solidarity with African colleagues. Yet dysfunctional communities such as gangs, cliques, and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects tribalist groups have been a bane to efforts to develop and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects democratize. New media are rapidly changing the ways that communities cohere and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects the ways that scholars and activists relate and research them.

This is Diazepam With Alcohol Effects wrong on so many levels that I do not even know where Diazepam With Alcohol Effects to begin to write about it. Do I start by asking when Diazepam With Alcohol Effects Africa ? all 53 countries of it ? adopted Ubuntu as their philosophy, or Diazepam With Alcohol Effects by asking whose paternalistic point of view this is? Do I ask what the writer means by tribes? Or do I simply ignore that Diazepam With Alcohol Effects and ask what they mean by the sentence ?Yet dysfunctional communities such as gangs, cliques, and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects tribalist groups have been a bane to efforts to develop and Diazepam With Alcohol Effects democratize?? This statement in itself is full of so many presumptions ? for instance about development and democracy ? that to begin to unpack it would require an entire essay.

One would think that an association of people who study Africa(ns) would at least be Diazepam With Alcohol Effects a lot more sensitive than this, if not rid of these kinds of attitude. The sting becomes even more biting when Diazepam With Alcohol Effects one imagines that the writer could be advising some government agencies or Diazepam With Alcohol Effects development organizations. Is anyone then surprised that Africa is a country, that Diazepam With Alcohol Effects Africans live on trees, and that they are dying of starvation and/or AIDS?

The only consolation at this Diazepam With Alcohol Effects moment is that there is currently an on-going discussion on the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects listserv of the association.

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17 Apr

Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next? – Eric Hobsbawm

Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association defends Swiss banking

Wale Adebanwi on Arab view of non-Arabs and non-Muslims Generic Acomplia Problem

Is South Africa going the Zimbabwe way?

The Sarkozy view of other world leaders

Still on that Nigerian president’s health thing

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15 Apr

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14 Apr

Through the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects planet money podcast, I learnt about the way the American Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insures private deposits in banks. A bank pays a Diazepam With Alcohol Effects certain premium to be insured by the FDIC, and private deposits up to Diazepam With Alcohol Effects 250,000 dollars are insured. If a bank that is insured by the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects FDIC goes bust, individuals who have up to 250,000 in the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects banks are paid back their money by the FDIC. Anything above that Diazepam With Alcohol Effects is not insured. Corporate deposits are also not insured by the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects FDIC. This got me thinking about the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation so I went over to Diazepam With Alcohol Effects their website to check it out, especially since there are Diazepam With Alcohol Effects currently talks about the state of Nigerian banks. Basically the Diazepam With Alcohol Effects same thing happens, only that the amount insured is only 50,000 naira (about 341 dollars). You can check out their website.

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10 Apr

Danny Glover and Forest Whitaker become Igbo chiefs

Think capitalism is dead? The Pendulum Will Swing Back.

What happens if the Nigerian president dies?

Why do micro states flourish?

The Story of Nigerian ‘Untouchables’

Still on the Twitter craze

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8 Apr

writing up. That is Diazepam With Alcohol Effects why it would seem that this blog has not had much attention in recent weeks. But whenever I can Diazepam With Alcohol Effects squeeze out some time I will definitely be over here. Otherwise, follow me on Twitter @loomnie

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Till soon.

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