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The Egyptian club Al-Ahly of Cairo have won the African Champions League trophy for the sixth time, winning 4-2 on aggregate over Coton Sport of Cameroon. They concluded their victory with a 2-2 away draw following a 2-0 home win. Al-Ahly has now won more football titles than any other club in Africa. The [...]
Oh well! We engineers and tech people knew that this was not done right. What I mean is that the most populous; oil-rich nation but ‘economic basket case’ could not or would not maintain the NigComSat-1 satellite launched by them into orbit around the Earth eighteen months ago.
They are shutting the power down to [...]
Beloved Miriam Makeba; who I was introduced to by my mother when I was probably a toddler has passed away today after unexpectedly collapsing on a performance stage near Napoli, Italy Sunday night; November 9th. She was 76. She will be dearly missed.
Read CNN report here and then google Miriam Makeba in ‘news’ for other [...]
Obama’s Election Triumph is captured on almost every front page of the world’s leading print newspapers.
See some * here *
This one is probably the best tho’. All in Flash. Obama Headlines from around the world
Also read this CNN report on why these newspapers are dissapearing faster than anyone imagined! All I can say is that ‘Race [...]
Not a condescending statement at all! The pirates of the 16th and 17th century are veerrry old news! Replace your buccaneer tri-corner hat with a well-cropped haircut of the African persuasion. Replace that old school sword with a Russian-manufactured rocket-propelled grenade strapped to your back! Get rid of that eye patch strapped to your head! [...]
The line-up for the five African groups in the third and final round of qualifying games for the 2010 Fifa World Cup was finalized at Fifa headquarters in Zurich on Wednesday.
The games - which will be played between March and November 2009 promise some great African fixtures.
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The 20 countries which [...]
Pharoahe Monch to Host CMJ’s International Hip-Hop Event - GLOBAL HIP HOP THROWDOWN
Event Will Unite the Talents of Global Hip-Hop’s Rising Stars at New York Cities’ Largest Music Conference and Networking Event
RSVP Now!
Global music and media company NOMADIC WAX & public relations/music promoter THE BLOOM EFFECT have joined forces and will co-produce this year’s CMJ [...]
Colin Powell Raps At African Festival
from News by grouchy_greg
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is the latest politician to get the urge to emcee, as the respected Washington veteran performed an impromptu freestyle this week at London’s Africa Rising Festival. The festival, which has become a popular showcase for African music and [...]
The 1st Broadcast & Film Africa Conference & Exhibition
Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi
23-25 September 2008
A few weeks back saw 200 African broadcasters and film-makers gathered for the first genuinely pan-African conference for these two important sectors. There was a palpable excitement in the air as participants realised that the African broadcast and film industries are [...]
The DV-2010 Lottery online entry begins today at Noon EDT/1600hrs GMT on October 2, 2008, and ends at Noon EST/1700hrs GMT on December 1, 2008. The English version of the DV-2010 Lottery Instructions is available in PDF format for your convenience.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a United States congressionally mandated lottery program for receiving [...]
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is one of Africa’s and possibly the world most revered, innovative musician of the latter part of the 20th century. He was from Nigeria. Fela is usually branded as a musician first then political activist second.
He recorded over 40 albums and 500 hundred songs. His self-titled Afro-Beat fit right in with the music [...]
African music is being scrutinized. A few weeks back I posted a review/release about a HipLife Generation CD.
Read Here! Today I will allow African Musical connoisseur and World Music radio jockey of First World Music; Akenataa Hammagaadji laments on the state of what passes off as African music particularly in response to the post mentioned above. [...]
