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Sophie Okonedo leads a powerful cast in the real life story of Sandra Laing, a black child born to white parents in apartheid South Africa in the new movie, Skin.
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Fashion and Life Style
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Estelle Teams Up With H&M For Fashion Against AIDS
Estelle is one of the celebrities that has teamed up with fashion giant H&M for Fashion Against AIDS.
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Maatano Fashion
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Fashion For Peace
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Liberian Teenager Makes Jewelry from Bullets
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Fashion at AfroExposure 2011: Kreatif Designs
Business
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South Africa education gets e-learning digital makeover
In Africa’s schools, old-fashioned, dusty textbooks are gradually being replaced by tablets, ...
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FaceBook’s $19 Billion purchase of WhatsApp
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Future of broadcasting on display at NAB 2011
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Exit of Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph
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The African Leadership Academy-Training the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs?
World
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Oil Strike in Garbon Leads to Shortages
Garbon’s New President, Ali Ben Bongo is facing a huge challenge as Garbon’s main oil workers have begun a strike. Garbon is one of Africa’s primarily oil producers.
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Former Sudanenes Slave Hunger Issues Halts Academics
Technology
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Afrisonore launches new online music portal
People interested in African music now have full access to a new African music Internet portal - Afrisonore.com.
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Africa’s Cell Phone Usage
Health
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Hollywood Surgeon: A Cameroon Native
Dr. Fobi is a bariatric surgeon for stars in Hollywood and he happens to be from Cameroon. The surgeon performs weight-loss surgeries for people that are overweight. He has been performing the surgery since the 1970s. He has performed the surgery on American Idol’s Randy Jackson and comedian Rosanne Barr. Dr. Fobi’s procedure requires cutting a patient’s stomach to the size of just a golf ball.
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Staple Foods
Sports
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Caster Semenya: The Controversy Continues
Thoughts on Caster Semenya controversy from a South African journalist.
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Linet Masai Beats Out Olympic Gold Winner Tirunesh Dibaba