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Ayo - Supposed To Be Love
Ayo is a folk-soul chanteuse emerged as one of Europe’s biggest new pop stars of 2006 with her breakthrough debut LP, Joyful.
Born to a Nigerian father and gypsy mother in Cologne, West Germany. As a child Ayo absorbed the musical traditions of her parentage as well as influences including American soul, reggae, and Afrobeat, all staples of her father’s extensive record collection. Ayo first studied violin before moving to piano and guitar.
Mutapa Matope
Mutapa Matope was the greatest conqueror of the early Mutapas (Mutapa meaning Emperor).
He was A descendant of Mutapa Mutota who lived during 12th or 13th century AD who brought order, a central authority & discipline to the early southern African towns. MutapaMatope conquered and unified various parts of the south of Africa creating the Kingdom of Mutapa. Economic considerations were paramount to this kingdom. Matope, in imposing a political empire over this network, offered the peace and security that allowed the gold and ivory trade to flourish in this region.
Mbege
Mbege, also known as banana beer, is a traditional brew of the Chagga ethnic group of Tanzania. It is an alcoholic drink made from fermented bananas. The process of making of mbege is labor intensive and time consuming as the majority of the process is done by hand without the aid of modern technology. The initial taste of mbege is said to be sweet and is followed by a slightly sour aftertaste.
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Beautiful House in South Africa
“Lam” by Nico Van Der Meulen Architects. The house is located in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Liberian Artist Ehi Obinyan
The Subjugation of Egypt by Sudan
Image 1. Nubians storming egypt After capturing city after city along the Nile River in 730 B.C., troops commanded by King Piye of Nubia storm the great walled capital of Memphis with flaming arrows (Art by Gregory Manchess). (Source Draper 2008)
The time is 721 BC just before the 25th dynasty; Egypt (or as the ancients called it Kemet) has just been subjugated by conquerors from the southern Sahara. The defeated fall to their knees begging the king responsible for their defeat “Be gracious! I cannot see your face in the days of shame; I cannot stand before your flame, I dread your grandeur.” (Draper 2008)
Image 2. Kushite King A Triumphant Kushiste King, a triumphant Kushite King accepting the homage of vanquished princes in Egypt in 724 BCE. (Art By James Gurney) Source: Madame Pickwick 2009
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Sudan Protesters Defiant Despite Crackdown
Khartoum - Sudanese students defied arrests and beatings on Tuesday, pressing ahead with anti-government protests inspired by demonstrations in neighbouring Egypt.
Opposition activists blame the government for rising food prices and have been protesting since Sunday around the country. They plan more demonstrations on February 3.
On Tuesday, some 200 students demonstrated outside al-Nilein university in Khartoum before hundreds of police beat them back and surrounded the university buildings with 20 vehicles.
Protests in Sudan have so far been small. Police have used force to quickly disperse any gatherings, illegal without prior permission. Rallies are rarely permitted in Sudan.
Late on Monday students in Gezira, Sudan’s farming heartland, and young people in the busy Khartoum suburb of al-Kalakla gathered chanting slogans against rising prices and repression.
One student has died from injuries after being beaten up by security forces, activists said on Monday. Authorities said they had no reports of a death.
The government has blamed the opposition for trying to create chaos in the country. The broad opposition alliance on Tuesday said their student leaders were arrested after a meeting in the capital and demanded the release of all prisoners.
Earlier this month Khartoum arrested opposition Islamist Hassan al-Turabi and a dozen members of his party but have not charged them. The government has also clamped down on the press.
“These ongoing rights violations are a pattern to silence dissident voices and limit access to information,” the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies said in a statement.
“The responses undertaken by police forces…exemplify the extent to which the (ruling party) are unwilling to tolerate any other voices on the road to democratic transformation.”
It said police had detained more than 100 people on the first day and arrests were continuing with people also being taken from their homes and offices. Activists are struggling to keep track of how many of their members have been detained.
Khartoum is in a vulnerable state after the oil-producing south voted overwhelmingly to secede in a referendum this month. It is also in deep economic crisis with a bloated import bill and foreign currency shortages.
An effective devaluation of the Sudanese pound has triggered inflation, and the government’s decision to subsidies on petroleum products and key commodity sugar provoking smaller protests in the north last month. - Reuters
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The Nyirangongo
The Nyiragongo Crater in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the world’s largest lava lake, one of the wonders of the African continent. The crater bubbles 1,300 feet deep.
Kenya Shilling Stable Against the Dollar
The Kenyan shilling was steady against the dollar on Tuesday and is expected to trade in a range during the session as volumes remain low in the holiday season.
The market has been facing a liquidity squeeze with the central bank’s tightening measures, helping the shilling recover most of this year’s losses and pushing up the interbank average lending rate to 29.3 percent from 27.6 percent.
South Sudan Creating US Embassy in Washington DC
With the birth of a nation comes the birth of its embassy, a powerful emblem of its legitimacy and an assertion of the country’s identity on the world stage. South Sudan will soon officially join Washington’s 190 embassies, and Chan is one of 14 employees working for the fledging mission, whose first big undertaking is Kiir’s mid-December visit here as part of a U.S. government-hosted South Sudan development conference.
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First and foremost, we'd like to thank everyone that has supported us from the beginning until now. Our main goal is to simply unite the Africans in our area and we are glad to see a lot of you are connecting.
Congo's Road to Stability Riddled With Uncertainties
Joseph Kabila has taken office for a second term as president but the country faces an uncertain future.
Bomb Blasts Sow Further Divisions in Nigeria
Christmas bombings blamed on radical Islamists marks a dangerous escalation in violence and risks worsening the country's sectarian divisions, analysts say.
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| Bomb Blast: The aftermath of the bomb explosion at the Nigerian Police Headquarters in Abuja on June 16, 2011. |
African Slang Of The Day: ABEG
Abeg (Ah-beh-g)
Meaning: Please.
Using Abeg in a sentence:
"Abeg come help me do my hair."
meaning
"Please come and do my hair."
Egypt: U.S Repeatedly Shipped Arms Supplies to Security Forces
Data obtained by Amnesty International shows that the US has repeatedly transferred ammunition to Egypt despite security forces’ violent crackdown on protesters.
A shipment for the Egyptian Ministry of Interior arrived from the US on 26 November carrying at least seven tons of “ammunition smoke” - which includes chemical irritants and riot control agents such as tear gas.
It was one of at least three arms deliveries to Egypt by the US company Combined Systems, Inc. since the brutal crackdown on the “25 January Revolution” protesters.
“US arms shipments to Egypt’s security forces must be stopped until there is certainty that tear gas and other munitions, weaponry or other equipment aren’t linked to bloodshed on Egyptian streets,” said Brian Wood of Amnesty International.
On 8 April, Combined Systems, Inc. shipped 21 tons of ammunition (42,035 pounds) from the US port of Wilmington to the Egyptian port of Suez.
On 8 August, another shipment of 17.9 tons of ammunition (35,793 pounds) was loaded from New York and transferred to Port Said in Egypt.
According to the commercial trade database, PIERS, both these shipments were listed under the product code of bullets, cartridges and shells, but the latter was also described as “ammunition smoke”.
A third shipment, aboard Danish ship the Marianne Danica, which is owned by the Danish company H.Folmer & Co, arrived at the port of Adabiya near Suez on 26 November.
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