8 month ago
nelson : Lagos: the megacity - Fascinating and frightening story of a chaotic 8 million person city
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8 month ago
jonhicks : Images to Inspire - Home Page - Now my Uncle Ged has a website (not made by me though!)
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9 month ago
WillPate : Malawi Ends Famine by Ignoring the Experts - "Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi’s newly elected president, decided to follow what the West practiced, not what it preached."
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10 month ago
nelson : Technophilanthropy from a victim - Scathing view of $100 laptop, etc: "They almost always fail, but they satisfy the giver. To the recipients, the things have no context, no relationship to their ideas of themselves or their possibilities"
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15 month ago
WillPate : What Does Africa Need Most: Technology or Aid?
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15 month ago
WillPate : For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid! - Kenyan economics expert explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions
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15 month ago
Andy Baio : Video: Battle at Kruger - herd of buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodiles; the baby buffalo survives
nelson : Buffalo vs. Lions - witih crocodiles in the mix
Greg Storey : Battle at Kruger. - Apparently this video is a year old but I just saw it for the first time.
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17 month ago
WillPate : Startups in Kenya - "Mostly about the day-to-day challenges of an entrepreneur in Nairobi Kenya"
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WillPate : Great Lakes Mix - music from the great lakes region of africa
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18 month ago
jimray : RED campaign turns out to be sort of a failure - Not even Bono, Oprah and Christy Turlington can convince Americans to buy crap they don't need in an effort to help people they didn't give a fuck about to begin with.
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21 month ago
philgyford : World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games - Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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23 month ago
kellan : Bill Clinton: "All you need is ubuntu" - But he isn't talking about LInux. Huh? And whats with the thong? #
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Male circumcision could halve the rate of HIV transmission in Africa, according to a new study - I'm generally highly suspicious of the health benefits of circumcision, but this could change my mind.
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26 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : PlayPumps - PlayPumps: "This innovative water pump that doubles as a children’s merry-go-round is bringing clean water – and a better life – to hundreds of thousands of families in Africa."
jimray : PlayPumps - This is really pretty brilliant
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43 month ago
Nelson Minar : The African cliff - What happens to a society where 40% of the adults die? (via Marc)
jkottke : Graph: here's what AIDS has done to the life expectancy in some African countries
plasticbag : Terrifying graphs of the decline in life expectancy in some major African countries - The article puts this at the door of HIV/AIDS, although I haven't read the supporting material so couldn't state for certain that was the case
François Nonnenmacher : The African Cliff - AIDS impact on life expectancy in Africa
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45 month ago
philgyford : BBC - Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2003 - Bembeya Jazz - To listen to later.
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