"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
This is an excerpt from the upcoming book, Grow Rich in the New Africa, which is released in March 2012. With the downgrade of nine euro zone countries at the end of last week, this piece speaks directly to the changing risk profiles of developed and developing countries which leave a number of economies in Africa winners and a number of Western markets losers.
TOKYO – The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa Thursday outlined six key areas in which Japan could focus their investments and assistance to Africa, explaining that these are areas in which investments would be mutually beneficial to the two sides.
BRUSSELS - It has almost made the country fall into despair. The recent defeat of the Lions (1-0) against Japan has left Cameroonians deeply disappointed. Disappointed because of the match, but mostly because of their captain Eto’o and his performance. From Yaoundé, Jean-François Delibi, political editor at the first Cameroonian independent newspaper, Mutations, confirms the general mood of all the football fans in the country.
Africa will have a record six representatives at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but just how will they fare amongst a field that is the strongest ever put together for the global showpiece?
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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