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8 June 2010

50 Years Later, Independence and the Resource Curse in Francophone Africa

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Development, Environment

Francophone Africa is celebrating 50 years of independence in 2010. Many Africans voices are wondering out loud what is there to celebrate, given the mediocre level of human development achieved since independence.

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15 May 2010

Reactions to the Greek Financial Crisis and the IMF from the Africansphere

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Citizen Media

The challenges facing the Greek economy and the ensuing intervention from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help withstand further damages from the fall-out look familiar to many African bloggers....

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25 April 2010

ICT for Development in Francophone Africa

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · The Future of ICT for Development

Although there is undoubtedly a strong push to grow information and communication technology (ICT) initiatives for development in francophone Africa, the region is still somewhat lagging behind their English-speaking neighbors.

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13 January 2010

Africa: 2010 Africa Cup of Nations Starts: What Do We Expect?

Written by Richard Wanjohi · Sport

This year Africa’s in the sports arena for all the right reasons. First to shine the spotlight is definitely the Confederation of Africa's (CAF) African Cup of Nations being held in Angola which is just a stone’s throw away from South Africa, which hosts the World Cup in June later on this year.

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2 March 2009

Africa: Winners of the First African Blog Award for Journalists Are…

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Blogger Profiles

The winners of Waxal - Blogging Africa Awards (BAA) have been announced. Waxal is an initiative of Panos Institute of West Africa (PIWA) with the partnership of Highway Africa and Global Voices Online (Sub-Saharan Africa). Waxal (pronounced WA-HAL), which means “speak” in Wolof, captures the essence of the evolution of the worlwide web as a platform for conversation and for raising marginalized voices.

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31 October 2008

Frightful Facts or Fantastical Fictions?

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Religion

This third part of the "Lore, ghosts, demons and frights" series has arrived, and we are looking this time a bit beyond the Latin American borders. With this last installment, we seek out the Chupacabras, stick our heads into Voudou rites, observe examples of exorcism and inquire after a cannibal murderer who has become a Venezuelan legend.

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Updates about Benin

27 March 2011

English

A few months ago, Marième Jamme asked Bono and Bob Geldof to take less prominent roles as speakers for Africa in the media and leave space for Africans to speak for themselves. Today on the Africa Rising blog, bloggers wonder where have the African personalities gone when they are actually needed to get the world's attention on the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire ?

• Anna Gueye

26 February 2011

French

Boukari Ouédraogo wrote [Fr] on his blog: ” The 22^nd edition of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou will take place in Ouagadougou from February 26th to March 5th. This year's theme is “African Cinema and Markets.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

25 October 2010

English

How to help flood victims in Benin: “So people are homeless, kids aren’t going to school, and disease is rampant. What can we do from our armchairs? I checked with the USAID director and several other international donors to find out what they’re doing. The relief effort is being lead by Caritas, who works in partnership with the Beninese government to get supplies and support to areas affected by the flooding.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

22 October 2010

French

Blaise Aplogan posts a photo of floods in Benin [fr]. He adds a table that summarizes the number of casualties and people affected by the floods in several western African countries, noting that Benin was one of the most severely hit [RFI report in French].

• Lova Rakotomalala

20 October 2010

French

Ménilmuche writes on his blog [fr] about the evacuation of “La Maison des Étudiants de l’Ouest Africain” [fr]. In 1950 [Colonial period], French West Africa (AOF) purchased this building to house the elected West African representatives. The building became a student dormitory in the 1960's when the countries reached independence. However Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal have lost interest in maintaining the building for years now[fr].

• Anna Gueye

21 September 2010

English

Do you know Ajami writing system?: “Ajami writing system has been used for at least at least a thousands years in parts of Africa. As I understand it, the script is a modification of Arabic incorporating local languages such as Hausa [mainly the northern regions of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana] and Fula – Fulani [mainly Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria, Niger].”

• Ndesanjo Macha

24 August 2010

English

Toyin Ajao recounts his horrific experience at Porga border in Benin:”When it was my turn, the officer in charge asked me to pay 5,000cfa to get my passport stamped and I asked why it was so. He did not bother to answer me but commanded me to leave his sight and go to stay under a tent that was 500 meters away from his office.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Comments on "Benin"

African Women Striving to be Heads of State

You also failed to mention Kenya's Martha Karua. An independent member of parliament, her campaign is interesting because unlike most...
Hello there Nwachukwu, You are right in noticing that we did not mention many worthy women candidates. The post was...
Nice one but just a bit surprised that you missed Mrs Sarah Jubril of Nigeria. Jubril still remains 'the first...

Akpe, miawoe wo do. tr: Congratulations, good job!

Thank you for the heads up. Your remarks have been integrated in the corrections to the post.
There are several serious mistranslations of the French articles, but most notably the article rendered as the " We state...