http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://swik.net/africa africa http://swik.net/africa http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Open-Source-Africa/chdwa Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:56:05 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Kenyan+skunkworks%40innovation+for+business+%7C+ict%40innovation/chdqw Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:40:52 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Regional+Economic+Outlook%3A+Sub-Saharan+Africa%2C+October+2008/chcca the IMF's view of the prospects for the region: Growth in the region is projected to dip to 6 percent in 2008 and 2009. The fall is due mainly to the global food and fuel price shock, which has weighed particularly on growth in oil-importing countries, and to the global financial market turmoil, which has slowed global growth and demand for Africa's exports. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:03:46 -0700 http://swik.net/Joomla/Del.icio.us+bookmarks+tagged+Joomla/Joomla%21+Day+Johannesburg+18+October+2008/chbjc After a very successful Joomla Day in Durban and Cape Town this year, we will be now be focusing on the Johannesburg event. Click here for more details: http://www.joomladay.co.za/index.php?option=com_registrationpro&Itemid=&func=details&did=1 Date: Saturday 18 October 2008 Time: 09h00 - 16h00 Venue: Mortimer Harvey Auditorium Capricorn Road, off Wroxham RoadPaulshof Ext. 40 Johannesburg, South Africa A full program will be available before the event, which promises to be full of new information. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:04:09 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+African+Store+Sign+Art/cg8u0 Frank of Voodoo Funk commissions some hand painted signs of classic African album covers Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:56:44 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Africa%27s+prospects+%7C+Opportunity+knocks/cg8mw snarky cheerleading by the Economist Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:56:37 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Health+Services+For+All%3A+The+Ghana+Example/cgukx In Ghana and I believe in Nigeria too, people use a lot of herbs. So traditional medicine is part of it. Our focus is to make sure that traditional medicine is safe so that if you buy traditional medicine you are certain you are not buying poison. So we have invested in the regulation of traditional medicine... Also insights on toxicological testing Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:56:30 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Meet+the+Bill+Gates+of+Ghana/cgkhk My cousin gets flattering press... first inventory management and payroll software, now mobile payments... Go Herman Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:30:54 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Somali+Pirates+Tell+All+-+They%27re+in+It+for+the+Money/cgbo4 “We just saw a big ship,” the pirates’ spokesman, Sugule Ali, told The New York Times. “So we stopped it.” Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:17:10 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Ubuntu/cf3ce Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:13:44 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+The+World+View+of+the+Psyche+of+a+Poet+-+a+Tribute+to+Mr.+Kwesi+Brew/cfxxs I first came into contact with Kwesi Brew's poetic dispensations to mankind through the Henry Swanzy anthology to celebrate Ghana's attainment of independence, The Voices of Ghana, (1957) and the Okyeame Magazine whose maiden edition I had the honour of distributing to shops in 1960 from the office of Miss Cecile McHardy, the Secretary of the Ghana Society of Authors (now the Ghana Association of Writers, GAW). She was the Secretary to Commander Jackson, then in charge of the Volta River Project. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:18:10 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Publishing+and+Alternative+Licensing+Model+of+Africa%3A+International+Development+Research+Centre/cfqx4 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:15:05 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Oil-rich+Nigeria+enjoys+%27brain+gain%27/cfe2e The Nigerians are heading home... Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:58:08 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Uganda+rebels+in+surprise+attack/ce84c It's an open wound... depressing... that damned Lords Resistance Army Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:58:19 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Desertion+by+Abdulrazak+Gurnah/ce7da a review damning Gurnah with faint prose - he wasn't convinced by the abrupt switch in the narrative, thinking that the novelist shouldn't desert the reader once engaged... I liked the ride however.. he also picked up on that quote that deserves amplification: "Irony is the unforgiving register that gives everything back to us" Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:05:56 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Slums+Of+Our+Earth/cezcj A bracing, angry poem by Kofi Anyidoho on the universality of slums. written at the height of 'revolution' in Ghana. "There are no lights in the slums but there are flames in the hearts of slum dwellers" Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:08:08 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+King+of+Palmwine+Music/ceu22 profile of Koo Nimo... Palmwine music developed as a distinctive musical style in Ghana beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, and is named after the local brew often consumed liberally during its performance and appreciation. The Ghanaian guitar wizard has been portrayed by Afro-Pop music commentator John Collins as a kind of Homeric Bard of West African Palmwine Guitar Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:06:08 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+From+Boom+to+Bust+in+Nigeria/cepdx short piece about the effects of insecurity in Port Harcourt and the rest of the Niger delta region... the militarization is worrying Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:06:37 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Making+the+marketplace+mobile/ceo8o interesting to see the evolution of Tradenet in just a few years. Their pitch is making markets and distributing pricing information to farmers and others in the supply chain. Initially web focused they now have an SMS platform. I suspect that the knowledge and experience they are getting about the shape of the market is more important than the ostensible revenue from operating a trading platform. I wonder if they'll adapt and leverage accordingly. Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:07:08 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+A+Graduate+in+Ghana/cefva Kia Alexander is now in Ghana working at a waste management company (parent company is Chinese) - interesting observations about trash, garbage collection, very profitable apparently. also funny stories about traveling to the north, tro-tro adventures - refreshing that she went back, I can remember her wide-eyed discussing the country back when she was starting at harvard. A true African American. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:00:15 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Impact+of+urban+agriculture+on+malaria+vectors+in+Accra%2C+Ghana/cea95 study shows that urban malaria transmission is ongoing in Accra and that the EIR seems increased in urban areas where irrigated farming takes place. In addition, the urban setting seems to pose a number of unique challenges to malaria control that need further investigation, e.g. anophelines may be adapting to more polluted larval habitats, may be more exophilic than in rural settings thereby decreasing the efficacy of IRS and the intensive use of pesticides in urban agriculture is likely to increase the speed with which insecticide resistance develops. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:59:17 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Beer%2C+Coffee%2C+and+a+little+DSP+%22+Blog+Archive+%22+The+Mesh+Potato+Part+1/cd8uc Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:03:34 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+In+Kenya%2C+Some+Fear+That+Fissures+Remain/cd0ca I'm most curious about the displaced people nine months on; the politics that most seem to focus on will matter little if the wounds, social, physical and economic are not addressed... revisit for piece on internally displaced Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:04:42 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Green+Gold+Rush%3A+Africa+Becoming+a+Biofuel+Battleground/cdwr6 Jatropha is the new Black Gold in Tanzania and other places Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:04:46 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Nuclear+Energy+Committee+Presents+Report+To+President/cdrhy Atomic dreams revisited... a roadmap for adopting Nuclear Power to generate electricity in Ghana by the year 2018... oil in 2010, atomic energy within a decade no wonder we hear about Africom Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:59:09 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Decolonization%2C+multilingualism%2C+and+African+languages+in+the+making+of+African+philosophy./cdods Kwasi Wiredu in Dialogue with Kai Kresse... African philosophy galore... Wiredu expounds on his customary themes: tradition and modernity, cultural universals and particulars... revisit for social living project Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:59:57 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+In+Africa%2C+a+New+Middle-Income+Consumerism/cdiq9 on the Ugandan middle-class as exemplars of newfound upward mobility and pressure groups for social change... true, things are moving but more evidence is required, we're not over the hump yet... via Sean Jacobs Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:00:21 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Un+r%C3%AAve+de+blancheur/cc5o4 Sur le seul marché africain, on dénombre plus de 150 marques de crèmes, onguents et autres gels blanchissants ... On skin bleaching in Africa, the US, China and beyond... a.k.a. yellow fever... The spread of skin lightening or skin firming Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:59:52 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/jey%27s+network%27s+del.icio.us+bookmarks/%5Bfrom+amaah%5D+Crude+realities/cc3aq The Financial Times on Ghana's Black Gold with pumping of offshore crude oil due to begin in 18 months or so... strictly by the numbers survey with obligatory handwringing about prospects for resource curse and/or counting chickens before they are hatched Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:11 -0700 http://swik.net/.jp/Africa+Souvenir africa .jp souvenir co.jp Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:12:19 -0700