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For those of you who do not know what “down-low brother” means, it is a term of art used to describe African-American men who live a heterosexual life to the outside world but are underground homosexuals. These men come in different personality meaning businessmen, thugs, blue collar workers and teenagers. [...]

Bill, an African American expatriate in Germany and author of Jewels of the Jungle - an Afrophile blog - offers some “beyond-superficial” analysis of events in Darfur (Sudan), Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR). In conformity with his style, the post comes with an array of useful links to several relevant information sources as [...]

Via Oprah.com:

In October 2006, Oprah was reading The New York Times when she saw a picture of a 6-year-old child slave named Mark. For months, she was haunted by the look in Mark’s eyes, so Oprah decided to send Oprah Show correspondent Lisa Ling on a 7,000-mile journey to Ghana to find him. When Lisa [...]

Via Engadget:
According the News Agency of Nigeria, the school got some 300 OLPCs (One Laptop Per Child) but is having a slight problem keeping them powered, as the school has no electricity and power at the students’ homes is irregular (still no pull-string, it seems). Despite that setback, the students are apparently “very happy” with [...]

Lawrence, a blogger at “The African Uptimist“, writes about the “uptake of solar photovoltaic technology in Africa.” His post highlights two pioneering African solar energy companies. Here is an excerpt:
Two African solar energy companies won Ashden Award prizes last week. Tanzania’s Zara Solar Ltd. won the first prize for the Africa Award (£30,000) [...]

Pamela, a member of the AfricanLoft Community writes on Nollywood. Here is an excerpt:
Nollywood is currently one of the largest multi-billion film producing industries in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood. Nigerians have again proven that the ability to bring honey from a hard stone WITHOUT [...]

Afromusing the Kenyan blog, showcases a “top down” execution of a rural electrification project in Senegal. The Japanese/ Spanish government-funded project is “an ambitious rural electrification project” that that involved setting and using Photo voltaic systems to power a remote rural area.
“It becomes clear quite quickly that the development model that this project was [...]