A blogger advice to Bono: Get some education!
Fikirte writes via The Concoction:
My issue is with the inability to listen by the likes of Bono. I’m pretty sure that inability stems from some sort of arrogance. I admire what Bono does for Africa, don’t get me wrong. He didn’t have to do it…Coming from humble starts [...]

Jen Brea’s article - Africans to Bono: “For God’s sake please stop!” - is well-written, and offers a frank and balanced analysis to the aid-trade discourse.
Africa has never loomed as large in the popular imagination of the West as it does today, thanks to the Jeffrey Sachs-Bono ambition to Make Poverty History, and of [...]

Brough offers a fresh perspective on the AID-Trade debate in Africa, he points out the difference between the Chinese approach and the Western way of doing business with Africa. This debate was sparked by the recently concluded TED Global conference, and it has since taken on a life of its own.
Brough’s article: Doing [...]

Fractal geometry, ethnomathematics, African Architecture and information technology are some of the phrases one can associate with Ron Eglash - a college science professor whose research examines the ways “information technology, mathematical modeling, and other science and technology practices are intertwined with cultural categories such as race, gender, and class.” Quite a bit to [...]

James Shikwati, a Kenyan Economist and the Director of Inter Region Economic Network (owner and publisher of African Executive), was one of the speakers at the Ted Global conference in Arusha-Tanzania (June 4-7). Here is some excerpts of his take on the conference:
“George Ayittey, a Ghanian born Economist, refers to an emerging vibrant breed of young Africans as the “Cheetah generation.” They neither talk about colonialism nor read the G8 script, but simply want to take charge of Africa! In contrast, George laments about the “Hippo Generation” that is stuck in the mud, is oversize after draining the continent’s resources through corruption and believes in entitlement…

I don’t think it’s immodest to see the June 4-7 2007 TEDGlobal conference as a revolution. Although the conference is several days over, the impact continue to sizzle in the minds of the attendees, and in those who weren’t physically present at the Arusha-Tanzania venue of the conference but tuned in to the sessions via the writings of the various bloggers present at ground zero. Yes, for the four days the conference lasted, Arusha was the African ground zero - if just for no other reasons than the sheer magnitude of the collective passion and human capital of the attendees…

Coverage of TED African Conference in Arusha, Tanzania
By Ethan Zuckerman

“When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.” - Ewango.
Corneille Ewango’s job is harder than yours is. He’s a forest conservationist working in the Ituri forest of [...]