Tag: africa

Land Mine Rats

rats trained for finding land mines. you can adopt one.

Chief Inflation

To be addressed as a Mr, Mrs or Ms in Nigerian social circles means you are a nobody. To be a mover or shaker you need to be a chief – or to at least hold a doctorate. “Everybody wants to acquire one chieftaincy title or any other title. The number of honorary PhDs we have in this country is symptomatic of a people who have failed in so many aspects of life.”

they would love the austrians, then.

Lion-eating chimps

Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla.

Their location at the center of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has meant that the mystery apes have been little studied by western scientists. Reaching the region means negotiating the shifting fortunes of warring rebel factions, and the heart of the animals’ range is deep in impenetrable forest.

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between that and nathan eagle, sub saharan africa is up and coming

Google first African Employee

I would also like to thank Google for taking the bold move of not only getting into Africa, but also listening to Africans and selecting one of us to lead in the region.

This is going to be good.

Mobile Microentrepreneurs

the story of mobile phone use in africa is all the rage recently

AfriGadget

a sort of make magazine meets africa.

82 ka Adornments

very similar shells, with the same type of adornment have been found in south africa and morocco. what this article calls “symbolic uses” may well have been a currency.

Nathan Eagle on mobile infrastructure

in kenya, people transfer money with their phones. wanna place a bet when their informal, mobile infrastructure will surpass our hide-bound legacy infrastructure in efficiency and resilience? i would say between 5-10 years.

African Renaissance

There are a tremendous number of new and exciting business opportunities emerging all over the continent. The mobile telephony revolution is just the most visible of these; it is just the tip of the iceberg.