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President Obama Counters Power Africa Criticism

President Obama on July 25 was defiantly upbeat about his Power Africa initiative, countering criticism that two years into the initiative there has been...
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Fact Sheet: Power Africa

The White House: Office of The Press Secterary    Power Africa has helped transactions expected to generate over 4,100 MW of new, cleaner power generation throughout...
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Kenya Eyes U.S. Shoe Market Under Renewed AGOA

Kenyan officials are speculating that their country, with its abundance of skins and hides, could produce shoes for the U.S. market under quota-free and...
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Educators, Innovators To Meet in Nigeria for AAI’s “State of Education in Africa” Conference

African and U.S. educators and education innovators will gather in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sept. 2 for the Africa-America Institute’s Second Annual State of Education...
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Mark Essien On Hotels.ng’s Latest Round of Funding, Expansion Plans

E-commerce site Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s largest hotel booking website, has been growing fast. It already has built a hotel network to cover 7,000-plus hotels in...
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President Obama’s High Hopes For The 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit

President Obama has high hopes for the sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), set for July 25-26 in Nairobi, Kenya. “If enough folks respond to...
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Raising The Profile of the Pan-African Community

African immigrants in the United States are raising their voice to acknowledge and celebrate their community’s high achievers and remarkable contribution to the country’s...
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Africa Is Becoming An Innovative Adopter, Technologies Pioneer

California market research and growth strategy consultancy Frost & Sullivan takes its Growth Innovation Leadership (GIL) congress back to Africa in August for its...
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Ex-Ghanaian President Rawlings Calls For Re-imagined African Cities

Former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings (above, far right) warned city administrators from across Africa that their municipalities face extinction if they fail to...
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African and African Diaspora Mayors Look To Resilience

An agreement to make Accra Africa’s first center of excellence in Microsoft Corp.’s CityNext initiative catapults the Ghanaian city into the limelight of a...

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Sino-Africa Relations: An Elder’s View

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of complaints that China is taking advantage of Africans even as it provides money...