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Africa is on a Turnaround

July 31st, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Media, TED Africa

Seeing the Challenges in Africa as opportunities…Euvin Naidoo, VP of South Africa’s Standard Bank speaks at TEDGlobal conference, Arusha-Tanzania. He provides the facts and figures, and forces you to see beyond the obvious.

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TED Blog: “African bloggers stepped up to the plate …”

July 26th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Africa, Blogosphere, Media, TED Africa

Prepping for the premiere of the conference video of the Arusha TEDGlobal conference in August, TED Blog is featuring postings from some Afro-bloggers, including yours truly. Here are excerpts from Imnakoya:
As one of the missing-in-action Fellows who couldn’t attend the conference, the only rational thing I could do was plug into the mainstream media (MSM)-dominated […]

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Is the Hippo Generation Becoming Irrelevant?

June 27th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Media, TED Africa

Hash’s (at White African) blog response (“Where were the Hippos?”) to the Economist article on the TED African conference is interesting. This is the statement that provoked the Hash:
There were notably few of the hard-knuckle African politicians who often run the interior or defence ministry or act as kingmakers, sometimes bankrolling rotten presidents. - […]

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TEDGlobal 2007 Arusha Tanzania: And the Revolution was Blogged…Live!

June 16th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Africa, Blogosphere, Event, Media, TED Africa

I don’t think it’s immodest to see the June 4-7 2007 TEDGlobal conference as a revolution. Although the conference is several days over, the impact continue to sizzle in the minds of the attendees, and in those who weren’t physically present at the Arusha-Tanzania venue of the conference but tuned in to the sessions via […]

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A Kenyan Blogger Tells her Story…

June 7th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Governance, Kenya, Nigeria, TED Africa

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“Right now, the circumstances under which you are born determine your life - I want to see that change. As Africans, we need to take responsibility for the future of the continent.”
This was the closing statement of Ory Okolloh a Harvard-trained Kenyan lawyer and blogger at Kenyan Pundit, I just read the summary of […]

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