Africans More Optimistic about Future: Pew Study

News that the African con­ti­nent is mak­ing progress con­tin­ues to pour in. Not only is the con­ti­nent mak­ing progress eco­nom­i­cal­ly and polit­i­cal­ly, but opti­mism by the African peo­ple is also play­ing a role in this as well. In a recent Pew Research Cen­ter sur­vey of eight nations, the research found that Africans were more opti­mistic about…

Does Obama Deserve Nobel Peace Prize?

Pho­to: Nobelpeaceprize.org Per­cep­tions of the U.S; Nobel Peace Prize Award  Any caus­es and effects? In Jour­nal­ism, cor­re­la­tions and link­ages between issues and out­comes are always a point of con­tention. This also applies to the­o­ries and con­cepts relat­ing to mass com­mu­ni­ca­tions and their relat­ed trans­la­tion into issues and pol­i­cy agen­das. In the lead-up to the Novem­ber 2008…