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When white women flock to Jamaica for a little fun in the sun, the R&R they’re often looking for is not “Rest and Relaxation” but to “Rent a Rasta” according to director J. Michael Seyfert. His eye-opening expose’ of the same name sheds light on a barely acknowledged form of sex tourism, namely, white women who visit the Caribbean Islands to get their groove back with the help of black locals. This documentary claims that, each year, as many as 80,000 females from a variety of relatively-wealthy Western nations descend on Jamaica alone.
The president of the poverty-ravaged African state of Gabon has been slammed for spending $123million on a lavish townhouse in Paris.
Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba, 51, has bought a sprawling 48,000 sq ft mansion on an acre of land in the heart of the French capital.
The 14-bedroom property on the upmarket rue de l'Universite also includes a heated swimming pool, jacuzzi, seven parking spaces and a tennis court.
In Gabon - where the average income is just $17 a day - most families live in one-room shacks.
Although the west African state is one of the continent's more prosperous nations due to its oil reserves, most of the population still live in poverty.
Gabon's opposition website, Bongo Must Quit, said: 'The president has squandered tens of millions by claiming this new mansion will serve to reduce the hotel costs for Ali-Ben Bongo and his official delegations.
Senegalese singer YOUSSOU N’DOUR explores Africa’s enduring musical legacy from its historical roots in the slave trade, to its far reach across the globe in RETURN TO GOREE.
With renowned jazz pianist MONCEF GENOUD, their journey takes them from the Goree trading post, where African slaves were processed on to ships bound for the Americas, to Atlanta, New Orleans, New York City and finally Luxembourg. Revealing the history of jazz, the rich legacy of their ancestors and the influence on the cultures they became part of.
A South African opera singer chosen by Nelson Mandela to perform at the World Cup opening ceremony has died from meningitis, his record label has said.
Siphiwo Ntshebe, 34, was admitted to hospital in Port Elizabeth last week and died on Tuesday, Epic Records said.
He was due to perform his new track Hope at the opening ceremony in Johannesburg on June 11.
Epic boss Nick Raphael said Ntshebe’s death was “a tragedy for all those who believe in the power of music”.
D'illustres personnalités ont pris part à la grande parade militaire et civile marquant le cinquantenaire de l'indépendance du Cameroun hier au Boulevard.
Dix chefs d'Etat africains en fonction, certains, accompagnés de leurs épouses, deux anciens présidents du Nigeria et de nombreuses autres personnalités du système des Nations Unies, de la finance mondiale, des économistes de renom, Jean-Louis Borloo, ministre français chargé de l'Ecologie et numéro 2 dans la préséance politique, des anciens Premiers ministres de la France… ont pris part aux côtés du chef de l'Etat à la parade militaire et civile marquant la 38ème édition de la fête nationale du 20 mai couplée au cinquantenaire de l'accession du Cameroun à l'indépendance hier au Boulevard du 20 mai.
-Funny, bold, witty, entertaining, serious, intellectually captivating writers wanted for an online news/magazine website geared towards Africans to debut in two weeks. Link to the website will be given upon request to writers who are interested as the site has not yet been officially launched, pending an official editorial staff. The website will cover entrainment, sports, politics, news etc and be host to several opinionated bloggers.
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900-1978) was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activist in the anti-colonial movement. Described by many as the mother of women's rights in Nigeria, she was regarded in her time as "The Mother of Africa."
An educationist and an activist, she founded a secondary school in Abeokuta to educate and train Nigerian men and women as future leaders.
She led a successful movement that helped abolish separate tax rates for women. In 1953, she founded the Federation of Nigerian Women Societies which formed an alliance with the Women's International Democratic Federation.
Ransome-Kuti's political activism led to her being described as the doyen of female rights in Nigeria and was regarded as “The Mother of Africa.” Early on she was a very powerful force advocating for women's right to vote. She was described in 1947, by the West African Pilot as the “Lioness of Lisabi” for her leadership of Egba women on a campaign against arbitrary taxation of women. That struggle led to the abdication of the Egba King Oba Ademola II in 1949. fought for suffrage
Will such high-level experts miss another opportunity to chart an agenda for Africa’s effective take-off… A Yaounde declaration is highly awaited today.
Yaounde is awash with what the world has as brains in developmental matters. Jurists, economists, high-level policy makers, diplomats, politicians and, even…. Medical doctors (!) have since yesterday been at sick Africa’s bedside. The National Organising Committee of the 50th anniversaries of Cameroon’s independence and reunification offered the setting through an international conference dubbed “Africa 21” with the hope that Africa’s predicament can once again be revisited from a multi-sectoral angle, with the hope that lasting solutions or at least more effective options can be found as many African countries this year commemorate 50 years of self-rule.
The impact of the global financial crisis on infant mortality is a topic of great policy importance. However, estimates of the likely impacts of the crisis, cited by international institutions and in the popular press, differ wildly.
This blogpost summarizes the main conclusions from some of my own recent research on this topic, jointly with various colleagues.
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900-1978) was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activist in the anti-colonial movement. Described by many as the mother of women's rights in Nigeria, she was regarded in her time as "The Mother of Africa."
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