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Meanwhile, thousands of former militant foot soldiers have been given job training, a feature of the program that officials call its most indisputable success. The question is how many will be able to make use of this training. In Nigeria, the government estimates, there are 67 million other people waiting to be employed.

Kempare Ebipade says he spent six years guarding creekside armories as an oil militant, in the course of which he took two bullets to the thigh. In 2009 he accepted amnesty and was sent to the U.S. for two weeks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. He displayed a booklet of Dr. King's speeches from which he said he sometimes reads to villagers.

Mr. Ebipade is a skilled welder now, trained in the craft by the amnesty program. But the father of four struggles to imagine how he will find clients for a welding workshop he has set up, or how he will continue to afford his apartment's rent of $1,100 a year.

The government has vigorously pushed oil companies to hire locals. Mr. Ebipade says that out of the former militant army of 10,000 he belonged to, he has heard of only five that landed jobs with oil companies.

Shell's Mr. Sunmonu warned against the idea "that every trained ex-militant is going to get a paid employment, because if you just look at the number, it's probably huge. So we therefore must broaden our solutions to focus more on self-employment: small enterprises, medium enterprises."

The Niger Delta has seen promising economic progress. Construction on a regional highway is under way.

Nigeria's overall economy is projected to grow at a brisk 7.1% this year. But much of the growth is in cities far from the delta, and a population boom reduces the degree to which the growth helps with the unemployment problem.

In the delta, years-old electric towers punctuate village skylines, but many don't carry electricity, having never been connected to the overtaxed power grid. Children travel to scattered schools aboard canoes, navigating creeks coated by the rainbow stains of oil slicks. A United Nations office has estimated it would take 30 years to clean the waters, which once sustained fisheries.

Amid this landscape, oil-related crime lures locals like Atu Thompson, father of 18 and self-described oil thief, who says he and others see few other ways to provide. "You can take me to amnesty, give me a good contract—but others are still there," Mr. Thompson says.

Mr. Dokubo-Asari, 48 years old, used to be prominent among them. While not all of his account of life in the mangrove swamps could be verified, he long was one of Nigeria's best-known oil marauders.

About 25 years ago, Mr. Dokubo-Asari left overcrowded university classrooms, he says, to study guerrilla warfare in the Libya led by Col. Moammar Gadhafi. He says he was given $100,000 to stir up trouble back in Nigeria, an oil competitor to Libya.

Fomenting conflict proved easy in the restive Niger Delta he returned to in the early 1990s. From a local governor, Mr. Dokubo-Asari says, he procured weapons and money to build a militia that ultimately was several thousand strong. For years, as he tells it, they broke open pipelines, filling canisters with crude oil and refining some of it through timeworn techniques used by locals to boil palm-tree sap into wine.

The government struggled to lure him out of the mangroves. Mr. Dokubo-Asari responded to one amnesty offer that he considered meager by announcing a death threat against petroleum workers. Shell evacuated hundreds of expatriates and oil derricks briefly slowed to a stop. The next day, oil prices hit $50 a barrel for the first time.

Nigeria's government offered Mr. Dokubo-Asari a truce and $1,000 apiece, he says, for his AK-47 rifles, numbering 3,182. He says he took the deal and used the profits to purchase more weapons and return to the swamp.

There, he recounts he was finally arrested and coerced into another round of negotiations. Fearing assassination, he fled to Cotonou, Benin, where he says he founded a school for Niger Delta children. He showed a video of him teaching kids kung fu at the school.

New warlords quickly took Mr. Dokubo-Asari's place. Marauding under noms de guerre like Gen. Shoot-at-Sight, Gen. Africa and Gen. Young Shall Grow, they formed a loose confederation of gunmen calling itself the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, and crippled enough oil infrastructure to bring Nigeria's production on some days to a near-halt.

That was when Nigeria announced the 2009 amnesty. In televised ceremonies, guerrillas dropped off rifles, machine guns, tear-gas canisters, dynamite bundles, rocket launchers, antiaircraft guns, gunboats and grenades to be sold to the government, which also offered the nonviolence training courses and nine-month vocational classes.

Theft fell sharply. Yet now, just as Nigeria's state oil company has begun institutionalizing pipeline-watch jobs for some ex-militants, theft has blossomed again. "It's quite an escalation. If nothing is done, it will continue to increase because more and more people will just come to feel that this is a gold field," said Shell's Mr. Sunmonu. "We're not going to give up on this and run away from it. We believe it can be stopped."

Maclean Imomotimi left an overpacked university four years ago, the muscular 30-year-old says, to rob barges in the Niger Delta swamps. Now, befitting his new career, he is known as Gen. Imomotimi.

He says he accepted the government's amnesty offer in 2011 on the expectation he would be feted, his hotel bills and bar tabs paid; instead, he was disappointed to receive a living allowance of just 65,000 naira ($413) a month.

So Gen. Imomotimi has returned to the waterways, this time, he says, not to rob barges but to steal oil.

"I take amnesty's money—what [little] they give me—I take it and I buy other guns," he says. "There's much, much more money in the creeks."

Write to Drew Hinshaw at drew.hinshaw@dowjones.com

A version of this article appeared August 21, 2012, on page A1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Nigeria's Former Oil Bandits Now Collect Government Cash.

For President Goodluck Jonathan, a Niger Delta native, such lavish expenditures have become a political liability. Despite a growing economy, his country of 167 million struggles to finance even the basics, starting with power plants, roads and sewers. A blossoming middle class in Nigeria's cities has put further strain on public infrastructure.

Yet because four-fifths of government revenue flows from the oil fields, aides to the president defend the high cost of peace by saying the treasury would face an even worse drain if a full-blown militancy in the delta flared up again. "If it's too huge, what are the alternatives?" said Oronto Douglas, a senior adviser to Mr. Jonathan.

"For you to address the whole issue of poverty and development, you need some kind of peace," added Mutiu Sunmonu, managing director for Shell's Nigerian unit. "That is what I think the amnesty program has offered."

Enticed by the program, the militants emerged a couple of years ago from the oil-soaked swamps of the delta. Some of the leaders took up residence in the executive floors of Abuja's Hilton and through much of 2010 and early 2011 spent weeks or months enjoying the Executive Lounge's complimentary supply of Hennessey V.S.O.P. cognac, priced at $51 a shot on the room-service menu. Over a buffet of fiery Nigerian dishes—gumbos, Jollof rice pilafs, goat stews—they rubbed shoulders with the country's leading politicians and influence peddlers, who often live in the floor's $700-a-night art-deco rooms.

"These are young men who came out of the creeks and were given the opportunity to hang out with the crème de la crème, wearing gold watches and drinking from gold-rimmed teacups," said Tony Uranta, a member of the government's Niger Delta Technical Committee advisory group and a frequent Hilton executive-floor guest. "It's a natural thing."

Most have since moved out of the hotel. "It's too high-profile," said an aide to one ex-warlord, Mr. Tom.

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Meanwhile, Nigeria is facing a separate militancy, in the form of the radical Islamic group Boko Haram, whose guerrilla attacks on churches and police stations in a different part of the country have left hundreds dead. Some legislators have proposed extending amnesty to Boko Haram, as well.

It is an expensive proposition. This year alone, Nigeria will spend about $450 million on its amnesty program, according to the government's 2012 budget, more than what it spends to deliver basic education to children.

Under the arrangement, the government grants living allowances to tens of thousands of former members of the bandit crews and sends them to vocational classes, in sites ranging from Houston to London to Seoul. These costs are on top of millions of dollars paid at the outset to the crews' leaders for handing in their weapons.

For a few, the program has meant spectacular rewards. To improve ties with former delta warlords, the government invited the top "generals," as they call themselves, for extended stays on the uppermost, executive floors of Abuja's Hilton hotel.

The Nigerian state oil company, according to one of its senior officials, is giving $3.8 million a year apiece to two former rebel leaders, Gen. Ebikabowei "Boyloaf" Victor Ben and Gen. Ateke Tom, to have their men guard delta pipelines they used to attack. Another general, Government "Tompolo" Ekpumopolo, maintains a $22.9 million-a-year contract to do the same, the official said.

A liaison to Mr. Tom declined to comment on the contracts. Mr. Ekpumopolo didn't return phone calls and messages. Mr. Ben, when reached for comment, asked, "How much money is involved in this interview?" and then hung up.

Later, he sent an enigmatic text: "Very wel dn im nt dispose bt cnsider 100%al u wnt ,we need investors in niger delta absolute peace is guarante."

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Former Nigerian militant leader Alhaji Dokubo-Asari, center, was restrained in 2006; the government later began paying him to guard the oil fields

Nigeria's Former Oil Bandits Now Collect Government Cash

By DREW HINSHAW

ABUJA, Nigeria—Alhaji Dokubo-Asari once stalked the mangrove-choked creeks of the Niger Delta, a leaf stuck to his forehead for good luck, as a crew that he ran bled oil from pipelines and sold it to smugglers. "Asari fuel," they called it.

Last year, Nigeria's state oil company began paying him $9 million a year, by Mr. Dokubo-Asari's account, to pay his 4,000 former foot soldiers to protect the pipelines they once attacked.

He shrugs off the unusual turn of events. "I don't see anything wrong with it," said the thickly built former gunman, lounging in a house gown at his home here in Nigeria's capital.

Nigeria is shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars a year to maintain an uneasy calm in the oil-rich delta, where attacks ranging from theft to bombings to kidnappings pummeled oil production three years ago, to as low as 500,000 barrels on some days. Now production is back up to 2.6 million barrels daily of low-sulfur crude of the sort favored by U.S. refineries, which get nearly 9% of their supply here.

The gilded pacification campaign is offered up by the government as a success story. But others say the program, including a 2009 amnesty, has sent young men in Nigeria's turbulent delta a different message: that militancy promises more rewards than risks.

While richly remunerated former kingpins profess to have left the oil-theft business, many former militant foot soldiers who are paid less or not at all by the amnesty, and have few job prospects, continue to pursue prosperity by tapping pipelines.

Now, oil theft appears to be on the rise again. Royal Dutch Shell
PLC's Nigerian unit estimates that more than 150,000 barrels of oil are stolen from Nigerian pipelines daily. That is one of the lower estimates. In May, theft from one pipeline got so bad that Shell simply shut it down.

"Everybody seems to believe…that the Niger Delta problem is over," said a former government mediator, Dimieari Von Kemedi. "It's just on pause. The challenge is to move from pause to stop."

got to give Officer Ricky his props for gettin with the real peeps on two continents.



Rick Ross Gives Back to Carol City High School

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Students at Carol City High filled the auditorium May 17, 2012 thinking that the superintendent was coming to speak with them, low and behold it was Carol City High alumnus Rick Ross.

Rick Ross surprised the students with brand new iPads for their CAP program which will be used for completing college applications. He also brought Reebok sneakers for the track team. On top of it all he surprised the students with surprise guest Swizz Beats!




RICK ROSS CHARITIES 6TH ANNUAL TOY AND FOOD GIVEAWAY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8pgk2wLg

I personally don't agree with the policy but it is what it is.

The Boers and Afrikaners plan to boycott the airline. Check out the comments.

http://www.fin24.com/Companies/TravelAndLeisure/No-more-white-cadet-pilots-for-SAA-20120817


Johannesburg - Cadet pilot training course applications from white men are no longer being accepted by South African Airways (SAA), it was reported on Friday.

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for my 9ja dogs .... the gym is your friend!

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links to ponder


http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/video/andie531/julian-assanges-strange-upbringing


http://aangirfan..com/2010/10/assange-and-brainwashing.html


http://aangirfan..com/2010/07/wikileaks-works-for-cia-and-mossad.html

http://aangirfan..com/2010/12/julian-assange-protected-by-uk-and.html


http://aangirfan..com/2010/12/wikileaks-assange-israel.html

by Gordon Duff

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/08/gordon-duff-busted-wikileaks-working-for-israel/



Assange “Witch Hunt” Dupes Activists, US Extradition Claims Bogus
There is NO Move by the US Against Assange, Darling of the Right

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By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/08/19/assange-witch-hunt-dupes-activists/

andrewza: That is true. But who is truly at fault. The company who is like all other company trying to get rich, government who have bigger problems to deal with, or unions or spread miss information.

Greed and mistreatment of the working class eventually leads to extreme circumstances.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owJFelAZBDc

Maniac shoots five, one critically, during Brooklyn spree that menaces club, house party and livery cab

Sources say a glassy-eyed gunman, desperate for cash, shot five people and pistol-whipped three more early Saturday in a spree of bloodshed and botched robberies that menaced a club, house party and a livery cab.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/maniac-shoots-critically-brooklyn-spree-article-1.1139426#ixzz23zHFvcMm

A glassy-eyed Brooklyn gunman shot five people — leaving one brain dead — and pistol-whipped three more early Saturday in a maniacal spree of bloodshed and botched robberies, sources said.

The erratic attacker left a nine-block trail of terror through Flatlands before he was busted near the last stop of his one-man crime spree — the Nigerian nightclub 9ja Villa.

“This guy went on a tear,” a witness from inside the club told the Daily News. “It was terrifying.”

The 19-year-old would-be robber, identified by sources as Michael Magnan, earlier targeted a random nearby house, another neighborhood nightclub and a livery cab caught at a red light, police sources and witnesses said.





The alleged Brooklyn shooter of rampage is escorted from the 63rd Precinct stationhouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn on Saturday.

[quote author=andrewza]O ok. So it has nothing to do with the OP. To why you brought bumped this.

bottom line, satisfied workers don't protest or strike.

too black too strong!


Julius Malema calls for Jacob Zuma to resign over "massacre" of 34 striking miners
South Africa's firebrand youth leader, Julius Malema, has called for President Jacob Zuma to resign over the of "massacre" of 34 striking workers near a British-owned platinum mine last week


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Peta Thornycroft in Johannesburg

4:18PM BST 18 Aug 2012



Mr Malema, who was expelled from the African National Congress four months ago, made his comments during a visit on Saturday to the Marikana platinum mine in the country's north-west, where the miners died during clashes with police on Thursday.

Backing the miners' call for a higher pay from the mine's owners, he said that South Africa's mines should be nationalised and that the strikers should not return to work until they were paid more than double their present salaries of around £400 a month.

[b]The involvement of Mr Malema will dramatically raise the stakes in the controversy. A firebrand politician, he has accused Mr Zuma of doing little to help South Africa's poor, many of whom claim the ruling ANC has enriched only a small black elite. [/b]The ANC's reputation has been put at stake because the union that has led the strike, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, has accused the rival National Union of Mineworkers, of being too close to both the ANC and the mine's owners, Lonmin PLC.

Mr Malema said President Jacob Zuma had presided over the "massacre of the people of South Africa. How can he call on people to mourn those he has killed? He must step down."

As a police helicopter hovered above a bare field where the miners were killed, a list of those who died was released by Lonmin.
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The list was posted up outside the nearby Andrew Saffy Memorial Hospital where many of the injured were treated after police opened fire against striking miners.

As Mr Malema went into Wonderkop Village, as the shack settlement is called, near the Marikana mine, his aides called on the police to withdraw.

Police moved their vehicles further from the huge crowd which had gathered to hear Mr Malema, the wealthy former president of the ANC youth league.

Ululating women welcomed Mr Malema with traditional ANC songs and a few were holding placards. One read: "R500 for killing police from Musina to Cape Town" A woman explained that her placard meant that anyone who could kill police officers from South Africa's northern boundary to its southern tip would receive a reward of about £50.

Mr Malema's aide, Floyd Shivambu who was also kicked out of the ANC, criticised the police: "Most of the people were shot at the back, indicating that they were running away so police actions were not justified," he said.

The massacre happened after days of unrest and violence at the mine in which ten people, including two policemen were killed a week ago.

Police said they had been making progress until late Thursday and were negotiating with union leaders, but the crowd of about 3,000 strikers, gathered on a hill, would not disperse Police say some of the strikers had guns.

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd, and then as the strikers began to descend from the hill towards an informal settlement, police opened fire and within two minutes the dusty field was littered with bodies and injured men.

"Miners around the country should stand in solidarity with the miners at Lonmin," Mr Malema added.

Political analysts say Mr Malema's intervention among tense miners and grieving families was part of his campaign to discredit Mr Zuma, who is seeking another term as president of the ANC at its congress in December.

Mr Zuma was called back to South Africa from Mozambique on Friday, where he was the main speaker at a regional summit. At a press conference on his return, he said he would order a commission of inquiry into the deaths at the mine.

andrewza: Why did this get bumped. It rather old news.

You fail to see the relevance after the S.A. government and corporate slaughter of the miners?

Hypothetical Questions ....


Will present seated governors automatically become presidents of their territory?


Will Delta Republic keep and manage all the oil revenue?


Will the new nations get rid of the debt inducing central banking system ruled by the City of London?

Name the national language of the new republics.

What would you like to see in your respective area's new constitution?


How will passports and border crossings be handled?

What happens to mixed tribe families?

Which cities will host the capital?

Will the split-up stop the looting?

related info .....


The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class


http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-global-1-exposing-the-transnational-ruling-class/


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real talk ......


Freeway Ricky Ross Response To Rick Ross: Funk Flex Interview With Open Letter

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Freeway Ricky Ross continues his battle against rapper Rick Ross, in regards to usage of the name “Rick Ross.” The pair have been at odds since Rick Ross released his debut album, Port of Miami, in 2006.

The issue has gone through the legal system, with the rap star coming out the victor on two separate occasions. But Freeway Ricky received a lifeline in the case last week, when a judge ruled that he could pursue a lawsuit against Warner Music, the label that released the album.

Rapper Rick Ross, born William Leonard Roberts II, hosted an interview with Funkmaster Flex last week, where he replied to a number of allegations surrounding the legal beef. This is Freeway Ricky’s full response, in the battle over his own name.

This is Freeway Rick Ross, I’m writing this to reply to William “Rozay” Robert’s interview with Funkmaster Flex addressing my lawsuit. In the streets a name is everything, in Hip Hop it is a career maker. William claims that we are both street dudes and could’ve talked; he and his music label had that chance and thought they could ignore me because I had a life sentence. In prison when you have a federal life sentence you’re considered the walking dead, it is exactly for this reason that they dodged me when I sent multiple requests from prison to sit down about the use of my name and image. When I finally chased William down through my guys on the street, we talked via phone, he gave me a number, and said he would come down to the prison to “chop it up”. He never came, then changed the phone number.

On the street when you take someone’s name and image the first step is to properly approach them, then you can be the lil homie, if they accept. But because he thought I was the walking dead he just stole my name and image. I’m a street dude from LA, it’s documented. William is not a street dude. He is a guy from a good background that had to pass background tests to become an Officer. There’s nothing wrong with being an Officer, just don’t use my name if you were one to gain traction in rap, especially without asking me. I didn’t get treated well by police, they planted drugs and physically beat me, so to have an officer use my name to get into rap is disrespectful.

William said to Big Boy on Power 106 it’s something “sinister” about it regarding being a CO, there ain’t nothing sinister about a CO. It’s a stand up job for a straight guy. I told Gary Webb in interviews for Dark Alliance “Everyday I hustled” then the guy came out with his single “Hustlin.” Well before music labels profiteered on my name and image “RICK ROSS” it had reached everywhere from Time Magazine, CSPAN Congressional Hearings and Newspapers globally, causing global awareness of my image as “RICK ROSS.” I believe the guy studied me, watched TV, read all the press, talked to people that were around me then tricked people when they searched the internet and thought he was me. I had a Louis Vuitton room in my hotel at the Freeway Inn, everybody knew that who were “street dudes.” I turn around and all this guy talks about is Louis Vuitton. In the new “Three Kings” song with Dr. Dre & Jay Z he talks about Crips, the guy knew about me and Crips by his own admission, that’s who I was associated with because of where I grew up. Also everybody knew I took care of my guys like equals, and was known as the Boss. This guy walks around with my whole image, he has mimicked all of my persona as Rick Ross.

Check out the KDAY LA interview where William explains how he got the name Rick Ross. Under oath he claimed he came up with the name playing football as an All American out the air in 1996. In 1996 I was everywhere on every news channel, newspaper and Gary Webb even did a book “Dark Alliance” on me and the cocaine epidemic. There’s no way someone in love with gang lore like William graduating HS in 96 came up with my name out of thin air. Somewhere between all the lyrics of my image as RICK ROSS moving bricks of cocaine, causing violence/mayhem and being a boss kingpin lost is how my image and right to rehabilitate it has been stolen and licensed. Then I contact Carol City HS just to see if he was All American, and they have no record of a William Roberts playing football in the 90′s. C’mon Man!!!

To have a man tattoo my name on his hands, and then not acknowledge why he did it is a disrespect to me, all my cell mates in for unfairly long crack sentences and the black community that was affected by the cocaine epidemic and Iran Contra Scandal. To have music labels profiteer by pushing the image of the dangerous black criminal is irresponsible. My recent article on Loop 21 and Toure’ article on the Washington Post are a must read to understand. Also you can see the Emmy nominated VH1 Documentary Planet Rock “History of Crack and Hip Hop” to see why my name made William Robert’s career. Telling young people with no hope because of poverty that you can sell drugs and parlay it into a record career is selling false hope.

TELL THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH, THEY GAVE YOU THE MONEY AND YOU HAVE NEVER SOLD A DRUG. IT’S OK TO BE WILLIAM ROBERTS II, rather than the second Rick Ross.

http://allhiphop.com/2012/07/23/freeway-ricky-ross-response-to-rick-ross-funk-flex-interview-with-open-letter/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross

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how time flies!


Bill Clinton reunited with Bill Clinton: Touching moment president met Ugandan namesake he held as a baby in 1998

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz23iEVzGai


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Bill and Bill: The former U.S. President Bill Clinton was reunited on Friday with Ugandan teenager Bill Clinton named after him after him

The boy was flown to Entebbe, Uganda to have lunch with Clinton and according to AllAfrica.com, Bill had to miss an exam to keep his lunch date with the man he said has had such an impact on his life.

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Supporting Uganda: Since his visit in 1998 where he visited the Kisowera school, Clinton has supported various initiatives to better African children's education and health

saw this on another website .....


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Some positive news.





Filling Africa's technology skills gap

By Fiona Graham Technology of business reporter, BBC News, Nairobi


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19234417




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Lease Mutisya says the internship has helped her decide where her ambitions lie

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Nancy Wang (far right) with her M-Kazi co-founders Lino Carcoforo and Mem Maina. "There's an incredible pool of working Kenyans who are very highly educated," she says.


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Monicah Ngongoo started her marketing and printing services company in October 2010, with a loan from two friends to buy printing equipment

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Reinventing technology in Africa for Africans

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120810-reinventing-technology-in-africa/1


Africa is the hottest date in town.

Not a day goes by without me receiving an email about technology in Africa. NGOs, venture capitalists, wannabe investors, donors or technology providers from the US, UK, and Asia are all looking to explore the Africa continent.

Organisations want to tap into the African market because they have read somewhere in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, or the New York Times that Africa is booming and that the continent is rising.


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From Kenya to Madagascar: The African tech-hub boom
Viewpoint by Erik Hersman Technologist, blogger, co-founder of Ushahidi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18878585


Where the magic happens: iHub in Kenya is just one of several technology centres across Africa

There's a buzz, a palpable energy, running through the corridors of Africa's capitals and urban areas, and much of it revolves around tech.


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Tips for holding up the value of your auto investment in addition to timely periodic maintenance.

Also, chicks like clean autos!



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Part 2 of the broadcast


Adaobi Nwaubani ponders how Nigerian names are changing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00wf2xv/From_Our_Own_Correspondent_Spain_and_Nigeria/

Strong talk!


A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford


http://blackagendareport.com/content/africa-re-enslaves-itself

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New Socialism along with oil revenue is working fine for present day Venezuela.



The Revision and Origin of Black August

by Kiilu Nyasha


http://blackagendareport.com/content/revision-and-origin-black-august


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars

The Thirteenth Tribe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Tribe



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo89l_NTQlc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_5s1F1xss

great entertainment!


Reptilian Interview (Audio)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1mB58i6FE

Brazil Gains Business and Influence as It Offers Aid and Loans in Africa

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/world/americas/brazil-gains-in-reaching-out-to-africa.html?hp

[quote author=MsDarkSkin][/quote]Bolt is the toast of the town!

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Usain Bolt celebrates 100m gold with Swedish women's handball team
Usain Bolt didn't need to leave the athletes' village to toast his 100 metres gold, preferring to celebrate with three members of the Swedish women's handball team.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/9456300/Usain-Bolt-celebrates-100m-gold-with-Swedish-womens-handball-team.html

MsDarkSkin: ok there is two things wrong...

we dont know who the guy threw the bottle at and second it landed behind blake.


I cracked up laughing when I saw how the guy leaned over to see where it landed with his short self!

I was watching it live via stream but missed the incident.
Will Bolt go back to his pretty boo after the games?

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BOLT TO GATLIN: ENOUGH TALK

Whatever Justin Gatlin said to get under Usain Bolt's skin probably wasn't a good idea.

After Bolt dusted Gatlin in the 100 final, he said the American was talking a little too loosely leading into the race.

"For me Justin has been saying a lot," Bolt says. "I wanted to run against him in the semifinals. I was praying to get him in my semifinals, but I didn't. People can talk a lot and say what they want, but showing up and doing what you got to do is a different thing. For me, it's all business."

Gatlin took the bronze, and was just fine with that.

"I went out there to challenge a mountain," he says.


BOLT TWEETS

Hours after winning a second consecutive Olympic gold in the 100 meters, Usain Bolt took a moment to tweet a message of support for injured Jamaican teammate Asafa Powell.

Bolt — whose handle is (at)usainbolt — wrote: "Respect bossy..hope u get well soon.. You started this Jamaican take over (at)officialasafa"

Powell, who held the 100 world record from 2005 until Bolt claimed it in 2008, pulled up with a groin injury Sunday and finished last in the dash. Bolt won in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds.

What's not clear is whether Powell will be able to help Bolt and Jamaica try to defend their title in the 4x100 relay. That event's heats are Friday night.

"I got out of the starting blocks and stumbled," Powell said Sunday at the stadium. "I reinjured my groin and I couldn't push."

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Usain Bolt Girlfriend

Rumor was that 25-year old Usain Bolt, the World’s fastest man, who is trying to defend his title in the 100 and 200 meters sprint race at the 2012 London Olympics, may have dumped his then girlfriend Lubica Slovak over the Olympics. But, did they really split for good?

Jamaican native Usain Bolt, better known as “Lightning Bolt,” is a five-time World and four-time Olympic gold medalist. He is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 meters, the 200 meters and (along with his teammates) the 4×100 meters relay.
Usain Bolt Girlfriend Lubica Slovak

Usain Bolt Girlfriend Lubica Slovak

On the other hand, 29-year old Lubica Slovak (born Lubica Kucerova), is a Slovakian-born fashion designer who resides in Jamaica.
Lubica Slovak

Lubica Slovak

According to reports, Usain Bolt and Lubica Slovak had been dating for over a year, and caused a controversy in Jamaica, when they were photographed kissing each other in local newspaper the Jamaican Observer.
Lubica Slovak Pictures

Lubica Slovak Pictures

The photo ignited a firestorm of disapproval from Black Jamaicans, bemoaning Black men’s “White woman complex.” Whether that contributed to his break up or his attempts to better concentrate on training for the Olympics is unknown, but while the Olympics is going on, they are not together, but may be back together when the Olympics is over.

Regarding the photo controversy, a Winston Frazier said: “Another one of our men snatched.”

“Out of all the girls on this island you pick a snowbunny.”

“These superstars will always disappoint if we depend on them to raise our racial identity.”

What do you think, was Usain Bolt’s love interest unfairly targeted?
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