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‘Welcome to My Taxi – Let’s Do Business with My Cell Phone’

September 2, 2010

In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone!

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‘Tea Bag’ Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water

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Though it may look like a tea bag, is no ordinary tea bag: A sophisticated yet inexpensive water filter that quickly purifies drinking water by made South African scientists.

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Chika Unigwe On Black Sisters’ Street

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The first time I saw the girls in lingerie behind their windows, I was stunned… it was a cultural shock on a massive scale.

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Sila Mutungi – The Musical Warrior

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The Kenyan funk master along with his Afrofunk Experience band won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding World Music Album.

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