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Let’s talk about Mo
He’s the Sudanese business mogul who is known just as well for his predicting the mobile communications boom in Africa with his pioneer company, Celtel (which he sold in 2005), as he is for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Ibrahim Prize for Good Governance (of previous African Heads of State). He’s been getting a bit of flak in recent weeks because, for the second year in a row, no leader has won the illustrious $5 million Ibrahim Prize. But, come on… are we really surprised? Continue reading
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Kerry Washington’s AMAZING performance of 1851 speech by Sojourner Truth
I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me!
And ain’t I a woman? Continue reading
4/20 is Indeed a Holiday— No, Not that Holiday…
It’s Equal Pay Day. A symbolic day that marks the time of the year that a woman’s wages finally catch up to those of a man’s from last year. I’m not talking about developing countries and I’m not talking about … Continue reading
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Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
The situation reeks of past volatile episodes that Africans and the rest of the world should not be too hasty to forget. Continue reading
Tired of Talking
And as impossibly discouraging as that is, most of us are going to keep talking because there is little else that can be done. Continue reading
What Happened at Copenhagen
Before I start waxing poetic- just read THIS, the most honest breakdown of the talks that I’ve read over the past few weeks. Cuts through the world-wide spin machine- which is saying a lot. Continue reading
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D.C. is way cooler today than it was on Monday
Yesterday, the DC council passed a bill that brings the capital of the Free World that much closer to living up to its name Continue reading
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