I normally download a podcst of the round-up of major stories on/from Africa by the BBC each evening. Yesterday’s edition was concluded with a report by Sola Odunfa. The story goes something like this: Joshua Dariye, the former Plateau state (Nigeria) governor who is currently on trial on corruption charges, accuses the Economic and Financial… Read More »
The Beautiful Africa Blog Carnival team brings to you the 4th edition of the Carnival tomorrow, 15 September. This edition is edited by Szavanna. We thank all contributors to this edition, and we solicit contributions for further editions. To submit contributions please visit the carnival home page. We are currently accepting contributions for the October… Read More »
Eldis is an arm of the Institute for Development Studies, Sussex. The managers of the website collect development related articles, publications and general information. According to the website, the managers of Eldis ‘focus on materials which are of strategic, policy or practical interest for development practitioners based in both the North and South.’ I have… Read More »
The Nigerian Central Bank Governor, Professor Soludo, really meant it when he said he wanted the Nigerian naira to become the legal tender in West Africa. I recently blogged about Nigeria as a black superpower; I think Soludo too believes that. He has outlined plans to revalue the naira by cutting off two zeros from… Read More »
Many people have described Sarkozy as a hyper-active (think of his near-attack on paparazzi in the USA last week) and power drunk politician, but not many have described him as racist. Well, we now add that to many of the adjectives that describe him. On July 26, 2007, on a university campus in Dakar, President… Read More »
The 3rd edition of the Beautiful Africa Blog Carnival is due on August 16. Please look at the Beautiful Africa homepage , then look through your blog to see what you can submit. You can submit your entry here. I will also be combing the blogosphere for articles. Hope to hear from you all soon!… Read More »
It is well known that Nigeria has the largest population in Africa, and the largest economy in West Africa; it is fairly well known that Nigeria’s military has been intervening in hot spots in the region; it is perhaps even less known that Nigerian movies are now, all over Africa, what bollywood movies were in… Read More »
I got a message from a listserve today that the famous writer and film maker is dead. I saw Moolaadé sometime last month, and I found the simplicity of the story very striking. The literary/film-making world will miss him a lot….
This is the inaugural speech of our new president. If the deliverer of the speech is the writer, and he is as smart as the speech, we might just be surprised! I got the speech from NVS The Challenge is Great; The Goal is Clear Inaugural Address of Umaru Musa Yar’adua, President of the Federal… Read More »