Is it possible to create a livejournal pod, to integrate with the diaspora network? Please allow better integration; not everyone want to use f..., t..., g..., i... when GNU Social (e.g. https://www.quitter.se) and Diaspora (https:// ( Read more... )

After reading an article in re-connect Africa and a recent blog post in Efia's world, prompting thinking of suggestions.

Firstly, these two ladies to communicate and perhaps identify mutual opportunities to work together. Why? That is the ultimate reason for the current situation in a country such as Ghana. For a (presumably new) business-person, ( Read more... )

During a visit to a known European food retail shop, it was possible to purchase coffee from Ethiopia, apples from South Africa, bananas from Ivory Coast, mangoes from Senegal, grapes from Egypt, all for a total cost < € 10.

How does this compare to where you live in Africa? How easy is it to obtain goods from other African countries? The ( Read more... )

During one of those rain-induced Sundays indoors, listened to radio 4's 'the world this weekend'. Was interested to hear a topic about Caribbean nations developing a proposal to seek reparations from the British government. The programme made the interesting point that slave holders were compensated and according to an academic speaker in the ( Read more... )

As a GNU/Linux user, it is most annoying to encounter filenames including spaces. Below is a quick script that can be applied from the command line for a directory containing such files:
for i in ./*; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr -d ' ' `; done so; copy the command above to the command terminal and voila, all the filenames in the active directory are ( Read more... )

Courtesy of African talk radio network, have just finished listening to an audio podcast by Militant minded radio (hyperlink to radio station's RSS feed) about the impact of the Nation of Islam on hiphop (especially during the "golden era"). Brought back some memories: some of the first hiphop records I heard that referred to NOI were KRS (about ( Read more... )

It is suggested in a commentary that "black" music is dead.

Total ... As is all too common with slave descendants, an article about "black" music with not one reference to Africa(ns)!

In actual fact, African music is most dynamic right now from the continually revolutionary reggae to my personal favourite sounds these days, what's becoming ( Read more... )

It's been interesting to view how the urban whore insult ultimately led to the departure of Bora Zivkovic due to the exposure by a Ms Byrne.

However, it is still unknown the identity of the perpetrator of the original insult, "Ofek". Without confirmation of the identity, how can the claim of dismissal be considered true? Possibly, is Bora the author ( Read more... )

Thanks to the person who posted this hyperlink in a daily telegraph article (about a well-known match between Arsenal and Liverpool in 1989), was able to watch today. Nice to see Arsenal win for once against credible opposition.

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