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Ten African beauty queens participated in Miss Universe 2009 and showed the world how beautiful we are.
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Fashion and Life Style
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Somali Twin Sisters Make a Splash in New York
Ayaan and Idly Mahallim, identical twin sisters born in Somalia, escaped the civil war at age nine for a new life in the United States. The sisters grew up in Washington DC prior to going to college, one in Boston and the other in Michigan. After graduation they headed for New York City and set up fashion label Mataano-Somali word for twins.
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Liberian Teenager Makes Jewelry from Bullets
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African Art Renaissance
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Estelle Teams Up With H&M For Fashion Against AIDS
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African Fashion Week 2010
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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Ghana’s President John Atta Mills dies
In a statement today from the Executive Office of the President of Ghana, it was reported that the 68-year-old President of Ghana, John Atta Mills died from throat cancer after taken ill.
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Caster Semenya Gets Glamed Up
Technology
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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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Africa’s Cell Phone Usage
Health
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Africans and Breast Cancer Awareness
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast Cancer affects hundreds of thousands of women in the U.S. every year. In 2006, 191,410 women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,820 of them died from this disease. Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.
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Summy’s Cooking Connection – Frijon
Sports
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World Cup Latest Scores
African teams competed for coveted spots on the 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers this past weekend.
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Caster Semenya: The Controversy Continues