Cameroon’s Reunification Monument: A New Historical and Touristic Destination

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There are var­ied opin­ions about Africa, includ­ing the Cen­tral African nation of Cameroon. When vis­it­ing Cameroon for the first time, peo­ple expect dif­fer­ent things. But what seems to be giv­ing Cameroon and Buea, the South West Region­al Head­quar­ters and for­mer Cap­i­tal of Ger­man Kamerun, in par­tic­u­lar a new image, is the new his­tor­i­cal touris­tic site,…

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Captain Phillips, Lost Boys highlight ‘Danger of a Single African Story’

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  Chi­ma­man­da Ngozie Adichie is a hero, if not a lit­er­ary star, among today’s gen­er­a­tion of young Africans.  Adichie’s “The dan­ger of a Sin­gle Sto­ry,” a Ted Talk she gave in 2009 about the sin­gle African nar­ra­tive por­trayed by the media that focus­es sole­ly on pover­ty, des­ti­tu­tion, and hope­less­ness, has received more than 6 million…

Obama Majority Yearning for Real Engagement with Africa

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The recrim­i­na­tions are pour­ing in; Mitt Rom­ney and the GOP lost the elec­tions, big time. What’s the rea­son for the loss? Let’s take a look at what peo­ple are say­ing in Amer­i­ca and beyond. Many pun­dits, includ­ing those who wrong­ly pre­dict­ed the out­come of the elec­tions, attribute the main cause to chang­ing U.S. demo­graph­ics. Ross…

Second Energy Africa Conference to hold in Colorado

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As if to say the world is not doing enough about Africa’s bur­geon­ing busi­ness and invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties, the Glob­al Com­merce Forum, which debuted the annu­al Ener­gy Africa Con­fer­ence in 2011, is bring­ing some of the smartest minds in the clean ener­gy busi­ness to Col­orado. They are com­ing to talk about “nat­ur­al gas and renew­ables”, how…

2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to Visit Colorado

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Den­ver-based Peace Jam Foun­da­tion has announced that one of the recip­i­ents of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace, Liber­ian social work­er, Lemah Gbowee, will vis­it Col­orado in Novem­ber. The announce­ment post­ed on the orga­ni­za­tion’s web­site stat­ed, “Nobel Peace Prize Win­ner Leymah Gbowee will pre­sent­ing the 2012 Peace Jam Hero Award to Edie Lut­nick and Ken…

Northern Africa Thrusted into U.S. Presidential Politics

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If you thought for­eign pol­i­cy would remain a non-issue in the cur­rent race for the U.S pres­i­den­cy, think again. While the pun­dits were “talk­ing a good game” about the econ­o­my and jobs, abor­tion, and immi­gra­tion, few had giv­en thought to the obscure movie trail­er post­ed on YouTube, bash­ing Islam,  and the poten­tial con­se­quences it could bring…

In Africa, 9/11 Defined the Emergence of a New, Scary World

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Sep­tem­ber days are remem­bered for a great many rea­sons. Some days in Sep­tem­ber are known for noble rea­sons like “World Peace” day on Sep­tem­ber 21. Oth­er days in Sep­tem­ber are known for more bizarre rea­sons like “Ask a Stu­pid Ques­tion” Day on Sep­tem­ber 28. And some days in Sep­tem­ber are more per­son­al like Sep­tem­ber 19, which…

The idea that Africa is booming is hot and sexy

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News that Africa is boom­ing is going main­stream.  At least that is the point that is dis­cerned when major U.S. print and broad­cast­ing out­lets such as the Wash­ing­ton Post, New York Times, The Atlantic,  Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor and NPR pick up on news of trans­for­ma­tion that is tak­ing place in con­ti­nen­tal Africa. These orga­ni­za­tions are devoting…