Socio-Cultural Trends

Culture is the New Resistance

• Published on 22 Apr. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural TrendsEla, a young Tunisian woman whose face is barely visible behind her niqab, says she has spent five months protesting a university ban against the religious garment in the classroom “to no avail”. On the other side of the capital Tunis, a group of students decked out in djellabas and keffiyehs (traditional Tunisian costumes) with the Tunisian flag wrapped around their shoulders, perform the Harlem Shake: a dance form that originated in the United States in the early 1980s but has recently gone viral online as a popular meme.The two scenes represent the latest battle in Tunisia, between(...)

Africans enrolled in Chinese Universities up 30 percent in 2012.

• Published on 09 Apr. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural TrendsWe are in Africa, but most of us understand China through the Western media. I wanted togo by myself to explore the country on my own, not through a Western perspective," saidHicham Erfiki, a second year PhD student from Morocco at Peking University.As a member of the PKU African student association, Erfiki helped organize many&(...)

By 2050, one in three children will be born in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Published on 20 Mar. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural Trends In 1980, 41 percent of the world’s population was children under age 18. By 2050, children will make up just 25 percent of the global population, according to a recent report by Unicef (PDF), which uses data from the United Nations Population Division. What’s worth noting, though, is not simply that the globe is graying—and whether that’s a terrible orperhaps beneficial is actively debated—but that different countries and regions will have radically different aging structures. Read more...

New York African Film Festival Returns To FSLC April 3-9 To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary

• Published on 20 Mar. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural TrendsThe Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) have teamed up once again for the 20th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) April 3–9, presented under the banner theme LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: 20 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL. This year’s lineup will pay homage to master Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène and the first generation of African filmmakers, while passing the baton to a new generation of African visual storytellers, who continue to transform our understanding of, and vision for, the Continent. The NYAFF will also run t(...)

Rwandan students to learn Chinese language

• Published on 07 Mar. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural Trends It’s already lucky to be the only EAC country using two international languages, English and French but Rwanda is being encouraged to adopt a third global language, Chinese. Last week, Shu Zhan, the Ambassador of the people’s republic of China to Rwanda, officially launched the teaching of the Chinese language at a community secondary school located in Gatsibo district, in Rwanda’s Eastern Province.During his speech, the diplomat told hundreds of secondary school students to put efforts in learning the language as it would open up new opportunities for them including increasing thei(...)

Country Coordinating Mechanisms and Women

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Investing in Africa: Mind the bumps and the rewards will come

Culture is the New Resistance

Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths

Skills shortage could hamper Africa growth surge

Is Tanzania’s economic growth an urban phenomenon?

Who Owns the Land? Cameroon's Large-Scale Land-Grabs

Innovation Leadership Training Program launching in Zambia

Open Borders top EALA talks

Open Borders top EALA talks

Solar Powered Internet School Opens World of Possibilities in Uganda

Women key to Africa’s development

Ethiopian capital to burn waste, hopes for energy bonanza

African Development Bank aims to boost investment to EAC

Africans enrolled in Chinese Universities up 30 percent in 2012.

African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

12 million Africans entering the job Market every year.

Emphasis on new Infrastructure driving a maintenance deficit.

Rwanda’s ICT ambition bearing fruit

Namibia examines BRICS

Solar Powered Internet School Opens a World of Possibilities in Uganda

By 2050, one in three children will be born in Sub-Saharan Africa

New York African Film Festival Returns To FSLC April 3-9 To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary

First women-initiated bank launched in Ethiopia

Lagos creating energy from waste

Citi Bank to start operations in Ghana

Nigeria set to overtake SA as Africa's biggest economy

Food and drug regulators to cut counterfeits

Gulf carriers aim for bigger slice of Africa market

Can floating architecture save this Nigerian slum?

Rwanda to host Agribusiness Forum.

South Africa's Naspers in $570 million Russia internet deal

Burundi supports border communities.

Tanzanias financial sector is stable.

Gambia gets its first Journalism School

How African Feminism Changed the World.

Rwanda gets U.S. $60 Million for Sustainable Energy

Japan Boosts Private Sector Investment

27 Million Women to Access Reversible Contraceptive.

o Ghanian Entrepreneur Assembles trucks aimed at Industrial Production

PPPs to Develop Africa’s Infrastructure?

South Africa, Belarus discuss cooperation in Agriculture

Google in Africa

Zimbabwe looks to boost FDI

Nigeria and Brazil Strengthen Economic Ties

Ugandan Vocational Training School gets US $82Million

FAO Report: Women in Agriculture

African Union: Empowering Women in Agriculture

Brazil tips Dar es Salaam on gas economy

Potential in Africa’s renewable energy

Ethiopia: Heineken to build the country's largest brewery in Ethiopia

African hotel wins worlds best hotel for second year in a row by Travel + Leisure.

Rwandan students to learn Chinese language

New malaria drugs give hope to eradication

In Rwanda 3000 teachers to enter the labor market

Biogas looks to women to expand sector.

Rwanda gets US $60m to develop energy sector

Africa’s first Pan-African airline hits 75,000 passengers.

Ambitious infrastructure project funded through contractor financing

Zimbabwe’s tobacco crop down 3 million in 2012.

U.A.E. and Zimbabwe discuss multi-billion-dollar cooperation

S.A. task force to monitor agriculture emissions

Nokia's Life launched in Kenya, hits 95 million global users

Africa is more stable than you've been led to think.

Uganda, Kenya coffees top in Africa

Uganda student wins Africa IT award

Are African women on the rise?

Mozambique receives U.S.$9.3 Million for girls education.

Malawi President Joyce Banda featured in CFR remarkable women of 2012.

New oil deposits in Kenya may be commercially viable

South Sudan and Sudan come to agreement to resume oil exports.

New laws to stabilize oil market in Ghana.

Expert engaged to set up futures exchange in Nairobi

Analysis of micro enterprise growth in Africa and transitions to SME’s.

Kenya demarcating 9 blocks of territory for auction of license to oil and gas exploration.

Could the next pope come from Africa?

Africa forecast to be a $45 billion pharma market by 2020

Scientist in Benin unveil enhanced malaria test