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Koreans series becoming more and more popular


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Mobile App designed to be used for typing African languages, spoken by speakers of African languages in Africa, Europe, North America, Caribbean islands and around the world.

IOS https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/keyboard-africa/id1600878509

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.boyeginc.keyboardafrica

For Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and other African languages, long press to have the special characters and letters with accents

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Check this out

Mobile App designed to be used for typing African languages, spoken by speakers of African languages in Africa, Europe, North America, Caribbean islands and around the world.

IOS https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/keyboard-africa/id1600878509

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.boyeginc.keyboardafrica

For Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and other African languages, long press to have the special characters and letters with accents

Sad !

Check out

Mobile App designed to be used for typing African languages, spoken by speakers of African languages in Africa, Europe, North America, Caribbean islands and around the world.

IOS https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/keyboard-africa/id1600878509

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.boyeginc.keyboardafrica

For Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and other African languages, long press to have the special characters and letters with accents

See his shoulder. Ejika ni shop

FILMMAKER'S VIEW
By Nicole Schafer

Click on link to watch
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2020/07/buddha-africa-story-malawian-kung-fu-fighter-200714164321878.html

I first came across the story of the Chinese Buddhist orphanage while living in Malawi, producing features for an international news network, and felt it would be a fascinating lens through which to view the implications of China's involvement in Africa.

At this time, Malawi and other parts of Africa were experiencing a rapid influx of Chinese investment and Chinese nationals - following the formalising of Malawi's diplomatic ties with the People's Republic.

Western critics were describing it as China's "colonisation" of the African continent or "China's scramble for Africa". For many African leaders, however, the feeling was that Chinese trade and investment offered a welcome alternative to a dependency on aid from the West.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is dependent on donor aid for most of its annual national budget. Former colonial powers have left countries like Malawi reeling with debt. Its new Asian partner offers trade, not aid. But will it treat Africa all that differently to how the West has?

While most debate about "China in Africa" at the time was focused on the so-called "colonisation" of her economies and natural resources, this story showed a unique aspect of China's cultural influence on the continent.

I was struck by how this orphanage was strangely reminiscent of the Christian missions during the colonial era - only here, African children had Chinese names, and instead of learning about the West, they were learning about Chinese culture and history. I felt the orphanage would be the perfect metaphor to explore the growing relationship between China and Africa, but also as a mirror of Western colonialism.

As a white South African, my ancestry represents the legacy of colonialism on the continent. From this perspective, I was drawn to how this story could help me reflect on my own historical context.

Upbringing and identity
The story is told from the perspective of Enock and his school friends. When I was first introduced to Enock, I was captivated by the story of this young Malawian boy who dreamed of becoming a kung fu film star like Jet Li. For so long, Africa has been influenced by Western culture, but this story showed how the influence of Chinese culture was shaping the minds and imaginations of a group of African children.

I was drawn to the ways this story could enable me to look at the growing China-Africa relationship through the personal dynamics of Malawian children being raised within Chinese culture in the family-like setting of the orphanage.

As one of the first generations of African children to be raised within Chinese culture, I was curious to know how this upbringing had impacted their identity, especially the younger children who came from their home villages at the age of five with little time to know their Malawian culture.

I discovered that while Enock, at the age of 12, had already travelled extensively around the world, he had little recollection of his personal background. He did not know much about who his parents were or how his mother died, and he had never seen a photograph of his parents before. So the early stages of my filmmaking with him involved initiating this process of reflection into his past.

As filming progressed, I was interested to see how Enock and his friends began to question their Chinese upbringing and formulate their own ideas and identities. Especially Enock, who challenges the monk in surprising ways. Some of the reasons Enock gives for not wanting to go to Taiwan to study resonate with some of the questions being asked within the greater development debate. While there is the expectation from the monk that the students go overseas to gain skills and experience and then bring them back to develop the country, Enock questions how they will be able to develop Malawi if they come back as "outsiders".

In many ways, I feel Enock's internal conflict of trying to hold onto his own culture while reconciling with the sacrifices that come with embracing the opportunities afforded by the Chinese, reflect the dilemma around the future of the African continent.

If our identities and bonds with our communities are fractured, can we aid true development? Or are we simply perpetuating the cycles of the past on a continent that has a long history of foreign conquest and domination?

Source: Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2020/07/buddha-africa-story-malawian-kung-fu-fighter-200714164321878.html

Four Nigerian universities are in the final stages of abandoning the country’s main grid to be fully powered by mini-grids. Nigeria aims to use more mini-grid technology to power its people by tapping a $550 million World Bank loan.


Nigeria’s Kano University of Science and Technology and the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE) are in the final stages of commissioning mini-grids which are expected to enable the institutions to exit the grid.

Metka Power West Africa, a subsidiary of Greek engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Mytilineos, told pv magazine it “aims to have these two plants fully commissioned by end of July”.

The project was reported by pv magazine a year ago and concerns four university mini-grids that will use PV, battery storage and diesel generators.

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It's still cheaper than paying for school in UK and US

Prospective students all over the world should try their luck in Germany. Higher education is now free throughout the country, even for international students. Lower Saxony became the last of seven German states to abolish tuition fees, which were already extremely low compared to those paid in the United States.

German universities only began charging for tuition in 2006, when the German Constitutional Court ruled that limited fees, combined with loans, were not in conflict the country’s commitment to universal education. The measure proved unpopular, however, and German states that had instituted fees began dropping them one by one.


http://dhesk.com/forums/topic/can-now-go-college-germany-free/

Complete a Master’s degree in public administration, public policy or public finance at a university in Canada, plus professional development through an internship and mentoring program.
•Program name: African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Program
•Funding organizations: Government of Canada and the MasterCard Foundation
•Managing organization: Canadian Bureau for International Education, in partnership with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada
•Target audiences: Young African professionals between the age of 22 and 35 with 2-5 years’ experience in the public sector, civil society or research institute in Africa
•Destination: 28 universities across Canada
•Duration: 1 or 2-year programs starting in September 2018
•Deadline: October 13, 2017 to submit a preliminary questionnaire. Eligible candidates will receive a link to the online application platform


http://dhesk.com/forums/topic/scholarships-canada-africans/

Anyone able to get 1stBank to refund the charge?