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Souléymane Sy Savané's riveting performance as Solo in Goodbye Solo has people taking serious notice. Goodbye Solo is currently playing in cities all over the U.S.
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Entertainment
Fashion and Life Style
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Liberian Teenager Makes Jewelry from Bullets
Lovetta Conto is a 17 year old jewelry designer originally from Liberia. Conto makes jewelry from casings of bullets fired during Liberia’s civil war. Conto makes jewelry that is worn by the likes of Angelina Jolie and Hallie Berry. She grew up in a Ghanaian refugee camp. At the age of 18 months she was separated from her mother. Conto and her father fled the country to escape its civil war.
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Korto Momolu Returns to Project Runway
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Ethnic Dressing – Key to boosting happiness
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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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Free Healthcare for Pregnant Women and Children in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is launching a new health care initiative that offers free medical care to infants up to 5 years and to pregnant mothers. The program was launched on Sierra Leone’s 49th anniversary of the country independence from Britain.
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Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo arrested
Technology
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FaceBook’s $19 Billion purchase of WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a small company with at most 50 employees but since ...
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South Africa education gets e-learning digital makeover
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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Yaya Toure – 2013 Africa’s Best Player of the Year
The Cote d’voire midfielder Yaya Toure was chosen as the 2013 African ...
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Nigerian FIFA official Amos Adamu corruption allegations