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Studying Bank Ads

Now that Nigerian banks are going through theirs, what more to do than to watch a collection of ads through the years: HT to Andrew Sullivan’s blog

1. Remember Responsibility to Protect? Discussed again by the Aid Watch blog. 2. From the Foreign Policy Passport blog, How Google and governments should manage Africa’s Internet boom. 3. What does the Human Terrain System have in common with Africa, BAe Systems and the Pentagon? The answer here. 4. While SEACOM was hitting East Africa,… Read More »

Loomnie Friday Link Love 17

1. Laurence Lessig on the hybrid economy (HT to Keith Hart) 2. Investors looking, not leaping back into Africa (HT to Osize) 3. The assassinated lawyer, the arrested Twitterer – corruption, whistleblowing and protest in Guatemala by Ethan Zuckermann 4. Who is blowing up what and why in Nigeria 5. My small German city appears… Read More »

Yemisi Ogbe…

… writes a blog that I enjoy so very much. It is hosted by www.234next.com Check it out.

Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation

Through the planet money podcast, I learnt about the way the American Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insures private deposits in banks. A bank pays a certain premium to be insured by the FDIC, and private deposits up to 250,000 dollars are insured. If a bank that is insured by the FDIC goes bust, individuals… Read More »

Adiele Afigbo is Dead

I just got a message from a listsrv to which I belong that Professor Adiele Afigbo, one of the most prolific and best known Igbo historians, is dead. I met Prof Afigbo last September in Nsukka and we discussed my research at lenght, with him offering suggestion on what I might look at. I am… Read More »

Global Economic Prospects 2009

The World Bank has just published the Global Economic Prosect for 2009. It is titled Commodity at the Crossroads. The full document is available here.

What happens to British used clothing?

Some of it end up in Nigeria, through Cotonou, Benin. That is what my ongoing doctoral dissertation is about. I am in the UK at the moment, trying to understand the British textile recycling industry.

Another Post on the Nigerian Textile Industry

Mr Kunle Alake, the Dangote Group COO, tells BusinessDay that the textile industry in Nigeria cannot be viable, and he cites the usual suspect: smuggling. “The Nigerian textile industry is dead; it has been dead since the last 5 years. It cannot be resuscitated with N70 billion, those pushing for the resuscitation are only after… Read More »

Leasing African Land

Time Magazine reports that South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics leased 3.2 million acres of farmland from the Madagascar government. The land would be used as a farmland, and the South Korean company hopes this would help secure food supply for their country. The lease is for 99 years. A Daewoo manager, Hong Jong-wan, told the Financial… Read More »