Asa et la belle Afrique imparfaite
Asa talks about her new album, Beautiful Imperfection, with Jeune Afrique. HT to Bunmi, who also wrote about shattered glasses in the visual culture of activism.
Tag Archives: Democratic Republic of Congo
The mobile telephony and internet markets in Africa
The International Telecommunication Union recently published their Information Society Statistical Profiles 2009 – Africa. The 76 page document details their statistical analysis of the progress of telephony and internet in Africa in the ten years up to the end of 2008. And guess what? Nigeria ranks highly in the fastest growing categories for mobile subscription,… Read More »
Resource Cursed
From Foreign Policy: Imagine a tiny country flush with oil money, where the wealth per person is on par with that of Spain or Italy. Now picture a place quite the opposite, where nearly two-thirds of the population lives in extreme poverty and infant and child mortality rates are on par with those of the… Read More »