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		<title>Chiedu Ifeozo: Reinventing the World of Poetry by Giving Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/chiedu-ifeozo_home.jpg" alt="Poet, founder of \&#039;Poetry for Charity\&#039;" title="chiedu-ifeozo_Poet founder of \&#039;Poetry for Charity\&#039;" width="228" height="170" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2454" /><br />Through 'Poetry for Charity' we have been able to encourage a new breed of writers, and support worthy causes.]]></description>
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		<title>Raila Odinga: &#8220;Africa is a Continent of Huge Contrasts&#8221;. Kenyan Prime Minister Addresses Nigerian Media House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Full text of the lecture by Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, Rt. Hon. Raila A Odinga at the 25th Anniversary of The Guardian Newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria. Oct 9, 2008. Theme: Democracy and the Challenge of Good Governance in Africa
&#8220;Genuine democracy is about freedom of choice, a universal concept that is meaningless without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s Emerging Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia account for about 40 percent of Africa&#8217;s population outside South Africa and almost one-half of its GDP. They all share a common economic trait: They are Africa’s emerging markets, according to an IMF report. 
The same crucial developments that presaged the arrival of institutional financial investors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Going to Protect Nigerians from their Trigger-happy Cops?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the rate Nigerian police kill innocent citizens you might want to be more careful when next you deal with them.  According to the police’s own statistics, police personnel have shot and killed more than 8,000 people since January 2000 in circumstances that remain largely unexplained.  In some cases the police have labeled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAARSAT: Nigeria&#8217;s First Satellite Pay TV Platform goes Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DAARSAT, the first satellite Pay TV platform offering service in Nigeria and operating wholly from Nigeria, went live today. Daarsat, a subsidiary of Daar Communication that owns the AIT/RayPower brands, is headed by Dr Raymond Dokpesi. According to his statement:
&#8220;DAARSAT will commence operations with 40 channels that span entertainment, sports, movies, lifestyle, news, fashion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 100 Powerful Black Britons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/mo_ibrahim_home_powerful-in-uk.jpg" alt="" title="mo_ibrahim_home_powerful-in-uk" width="318" height="229" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2442" /><br />The list has Dr Mo Ibrahim as Britain's most powerful black man. It includes also architect David Adjaye, media executive Sonita Alleyne, barrister Daniel Alexander, actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, racing driver Lewis Hamilton, politician Oona King, social justice campaigner Doreen Lawrence, artist Steve McQueen, trade unionist Lord Morris, writer Zadie Smith and publisher Annette Thomas.]]></description>
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		<title>Niger Delta:  &#8220;A Nightmare to Nigeria&#8221;. Yar A&#8217;dua Lacks Leadership Vision [podcast]</title>
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		<comments>http://www.africanloft.com/niger-delta-a-nightmare-to-nigeria-yar-adua-lacks-leadership-vision-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar&#8217;Adua has described the escalating violence in oil-rich but restive Niger Delta as a nightmare facing his administration. Chudi Chukwuani, a Nigerian economist fired back: &#8220;Clearly it&#8217;s a statement that can be made by somebody that has absolutely no vision of leadership&#8221;.
Take a listen.
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		<title>Togo: School Year Reopens with Free Primary Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/togo-school-year-reopens-with-free-primary-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.africanloft.com/togo-school-year-reopens-with-free-primary-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in recent years, primary school students started a new school year on 6 October in Togo without paying enrolment fees. The government has waived primary school fees as part of a more than US$80 million investment in the education system. While parents celebrated the savings, administrators taken aback by the surprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghana: Campus Sanitation goes Green</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/ghana-campus-sanitation-goes-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A private university in Accra, Ghana, is incorporating ecologically sound methods for providing sanitation and clean water on its campus. Valley View University is also recycling human waste and used water from dormitories as fertilizer for the school’s farm. Voice of America English to Africa Service reporter Joana Mantey, in Accra, says the campus covers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burkina Faso: Making it Increasingly Easier to do Business</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/burkina-faso-making-it-increasingly-easier-to-do-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An assessment of the investment climate in Burkina Faso completed in 2005- 2006 by the World Bank concluded that the country’s business climate was the least favourable of all African countries. Within the same year, the Bank and International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Doing Business Report, a report that ranks 181 countries in the ease of [...]]]></description>
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