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What you need to know about the first Black Zimbabwean swimmer at the Olympics
Donata Katai and Kirsty Coventry, two Zimbabwean women, are creating waves on the continent. While Katai, who is seventeen years old, prepares for the Olympics, Coventry, a former Olympic swimmer, has...
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This is why African governments cannot give up on nepotism
The word “nepotism” comes from the Italian word “nipote,” which means “nephew,” and has been used by the papal practice of bestowing special favors on grandchildren...
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Ugandan Olympic athlete ‘runs away’ – This is why Africa should expect more athletes to follow
A 20-year-old Ugandan weightlifter who has gone missing in Tokyo before the Olympic Games wrote a message stating that life in his home country was too harsh for him and that he wanted to work in Japan....
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Ghana is paying its first ladies – That’s unfair to the poor majority
Lewis Gould, a pioneering scholar on the history and legacies of presidential first ladies remarked “[b]eing first lady requires a woman to act … as a mixture of queen, club woman, and starlet.” ...
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How a CEO of a financial firm was arrested for looting booze in South Africa riots
The disturbances in South Africa have been reported from various perspectives by different media outlets and the most prominent angle has been that it is a riot of the angry and the hungry as well as the...
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Why you have to hope Cuba gets better
What hope is there for a developing country getting crushed by a bigger bullish country? The Ghanaian Akan proverb that says ‘a woman who has no male (company) is the one we beat up/assault and walk...