Link Africa

Posted by: youngafrican on: September 23, 2010

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Now I look like an African (minus the whole white skin thing)!

• “Ghana has reduced the proportion of under-nourished people by over 75 percent since 1992. Currently, only 8 percent of its population remains under-nourished – roughly on par with many industrialized countries. In Ethiopia, primary education completion rates have increased by nearly 300 percent — meaning that millions of kids are now finishing at least eight years of schooling. Beyond that, Ethiopia is aggressively expanding access to secondary and tertiary education as well. In Burkina Faso, access to safe drinking water has increased by nearly 60 percent. Uganda has reduced its HIV/AIDS prevalence rate by over 60 percent.”
• “Africa has a new cheerleader, with even more financial clout. Bob Diamond, the new head of Barclays, is calling the continent an “incredible” opportunity.”
• “Africa is rich in untapped natural oil and gas reserves. With recent finds in Uganda and Ghana, the continent is certain to experience a flurry of exploration activity. Furthermore, Africa is expected to pass North America in 2011 and become the third largest producing area after the Middle East and Central/Eastern Europe.“
• “Anywhere along the maize belt, from Ethiopia down to South Africa and up to the Ivory Coast, a traveler can find a standard dish: maize flour boiled into a stiff porridge known as sadza in Zimbabwe, ugali in Kenya, and in the Bariba regions of Benin, dibu.”
• “You go to one of those fabulously elitist schools where everyone talks about privilege, classism, racism, sexism, etc. as if they don’t practice it in real life. But in order to really see the world, they decide to go somewhere where they can understand what their privilege looks like. So they choose AFRICA! Yay! A whole continent dedicated to helping white people understand what it means to be poor and undeveloped.”
• “Starting in December, Marvel’s king of the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda, otherwise known as T’Challa or the black panther, will be the mysterious super hero filling in Matt Murdock’s crime fighting shoes in New York city”
• “Africa has been seen as something more than a curio in global investment terms since 2007, when the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China bought up a 20 percent share in Mr. Maree’s bank for $5.5 billion. Suddenly, The Economist writes, Africa had the financial world’s attention.”

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