Category: Events

Bill Clinton talks Rwandan healthcare at TED 2007

The good folks at TED have released this video of former US President Bill Clinton’s acceptance speech as a winner of the 2007 TED prize. In his speech Clinton speaks about his Clinton Foundation‘s pilot health care system in Rwanda which is based on the work of Dr. Paul Farmer in Haiti. In 18 months…
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Event: Africa to Brooklyn

This should be a good show for anyone in the NYC area this thursday.

Chosan performs Blood Diamond from Bling is Dead

A few months ago some New York-based artists and arts organizations organized a concert to benefit Nah We Yone, a grassroots nonprofit organization that helps rebuild the shattered lives of refugees, asylees and asylum seekers from the African diaspora who have fled to the New York Metropolitan area due to ongoing political instability throughout the…
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Designers for Darfur event on Fashion Television

Here’s the Fashion Television feature of the Designers for Darfur event from the Fall 2007 New York Fashion Week. Designer Malcolm Harris (Mal Sirrah) and model Lydia Hearst did a great job of pulling the event together.

This week in African Style 3/17 – 3/23/07

• Virgin Atlantic opens East Africa route and competes with British Airways. • Innovation and investment at Oprah’s African schools. • Tragedy of 5 lost in Bronx fire lead American media to Mali’s red earth. • Russia looks to sign energy, metals deals in Africa. • Americans milk Africa to death. • Queen Latifah competes…
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This week in African Style 3/1 – 3/16/07

• BBC launches new Africa Beyond website. • CNN, Niger Delta and Western Media Portrayals of Africa Part III. • Ghana: Independence? Try ‘aid-dependence’. • Chinese Minister: African people will never welcome colonialists to plunder their resources. • Africa and Europe set for tunnel link. • MySpace and The New York Times sends readers on…
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African woman in business at TED conference

Fellow blogger Benin has been doing a great job with his African Women in Business series. Reading his series has inspired me to keep an eye out for African women who are keeping pace with the men in changing the world we live in. While looking at the schedule for the TED conference, which started…
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Bono: the busiest man in Africactivism

Bono is probably the busiest Africa lobbyist of the decade. Every time I look up, he’s involved in some Africa-related initiative. What separates him from the rest of the celebrity Africa-enthusiasts is his ability to develop initiatives which explore new avenues to address Africa’s issues. In the past few days alone, he’s been awarded an…
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Ghana: 50 years young

March 6th will mark the 50 year anniversary of Ghana’s independence. A lot can happen in 50 years, and a lot has happened in Ghana in the past 50 years. Besides the celebration of Ghana’s independence, I’ve been thinking about how many of us expect miracles when a country like Ghana has only had 50…
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Damon Dash goes to Ghana for the UN

For those wondering where Jay-Z’s former partner, Damon Dash, is these days, he’s been doing his part for the United Nations World Food Programme, which launched in April of 2006 to raise monies towards halving the number of hungry people in the world, particularly children, by 2015. A few months ago Dash and his family,…
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