Grandiose Parlor

Brian Steidle, a U.S. representative on an African Union observation team, “has become the most vivid chronicler of one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes.” How? Through photographs.
“For the past 18 months, Steidle has shown his photos, told his story and asked people to lobby the Bush administration and the U.N. to stop the carnage in […]

Nigeria to build [tag]nuclear power[/tag] plant. Peter Griffiths, editor of Business in Africa online muses via BiA newsletter:
“Nigeria sees nuclear as a method of securing power post-oil. At some point oil will run out and so this move seems wise enough, however, Nigeria can’t even produce enough energy now and has actually gone backwards over […]

The use of Africa as a dumping site for hazardous waste from industrialized nations is an old news. The issue resurfaced again some weeks ago in Ivory Coast. 
The use of Africa as a dumping site for hazardous waste from industrialized nations is an old news. The issue resurfaced again some weeks ago in Ivory Coast.Very […]

I’ve just finished reading (and commenting to) the Black Star Journal post on Nigeria and Ibrahim Babangida, a former military dictator head of state.
In the post titled: “A cancer to return to the heart of Nigeria?”, Brian, the author wonders if “the development of democracy in Nigeria so stunted that in a […]

To those that don’t know about the Digital Citizens Indaba, the first blogging conference in Africa, too bad, it is already over. Though I wasn’t there - I didn’t know about the conference until two days before its commencement! But not that it would have mattered because I doubt if I would have attended anyway. […]