| African
Spotlight |
Art: Museum for African Art
Travel: Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
Africa's Stock Markets: LiquidAfrica
Business in Africa:Where to start
Aids and Africa: Keeping up to date
African Art: africanaperture.com and
africancolours.com
Jobs in Africa: Find the one that's right for you
African Art: africanaperture.com and
africancolours.com
African National Congress (ANC)
West Africa Rice Development
Association
African Regional
Union
African Union
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah
NEPAD - New Partnership for Africa's
Development
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The Museum for African Art
The Museum for African Art, located in New York, is dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture. The Museum is recognized worldwide as a pre-eminent organizer of exhibitions and publisher of books devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary African art. Click the link below for more information.
Museum for African Art
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania rising 4,600 m (15,092 ft) from its base. Around 25,000 people per year attempt to summit the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. In 1889, German geographer Hans Meyer and Austrian mountain climber Ludwig Purtscheller were the first to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro. Click the links below for more information.
Wiki: Mount Kilimanjaro
Mt. Kilimanjaro Facts
Mt. Kilimanjaro Guide
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Liquid Africa: Africa Investment Destination
LiquidAfrica is an online resource with the mission to provide easy access to investments in Africa. Services offered by LiquidAfrica include an online trading platform and financial and economic information. At this site you will find detailed market information and industry specific resources. Updated stock market overviews are provided for Algeria. Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Nigeria, West Africa Bourse, Kenya, Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. To visit LiquidAfrica, select the link below.
LiquidAfrica
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Business in Africa
A growing number of resources are available online that provide details about doing business in Africa. These resources provide information including how to start a business in Africa, how to provide procurement for international agencies in Africa, and extensive information about individual African companies and markets. Some resources also provide guides for the prospecting entrepreneur. Please visit the links below to learn more about doing business in Africa. These links represent a sampling of what�s available.
MBendi
Africa Business Guide
Africa Business and Economy
Africa Business Direct
Opportunity Africa
International FInance Corporation
AGOA
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Aids and Africa
There�s no doubt that AIDS is a severe problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of Africans have become infected. This website (AidsInAfrica.com) is a resource for information about AIDS in Africa. The site provides news, reports, and statistics on the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Link: AIDS and Africa
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African Art:
africanaperture.com and africancolours.com
Our spotlight now turns to Art in Africa. The two sites featured in
this spotlight (africanaperture.com) and (africancolours.com) are two of
the premier African Arts web sites. The web sites provide an excellent
immersion into the world of Africa and helps draw us away from the
issues that seem to almost always overwhelm our thought of Africa ...
even if only for a while. Prepare for stunning imagery and style...
Site links:
www.africanaperture.com
(photography)
www.africancolours.com
(visual artists & contemporary art)
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African National
Congress (ANC)
The ANC is a national liberation movement formed on January 8, 1912 in
Bloemfontein, South Africa. Its goals include the unification of the
African people and spearheading the struggle for fundamental political,
social and economic change in Africa. For nine decades the ANC led the
struggle against racism and oppression, organising mass resistance,
mobilising the international community and taking up the armed struggle
against apartheid in South Africa.
ANC related Web Sites
Official ANC
Web Site
ANC info at
Africana.com
ANC
entry in Wikipedia, the free online Encyclopedia
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West Africa Rice
Development Association
The West Africa Rice
Development Association is an autonomous intergovernmental research
association with a mission to strengthen Sub-Saharan Africa's capability
for technology generation, technology transfer and policy formulation.
The 17 countries that comprise WARDA include Benin, Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Chad, C�te d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal,
Sierra Leone, and Togo. A primary goal of WARDA is to increase the
sustainable productivity of rice-based cropping systems while conserving
the natural resource base and contributing to the food security of poor
rural and urban households. WARDA was established in 1970 and became a
full-fledged member of the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 1986.
WARDA Related Web Site
Official WARDA Web Site
Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research Web Site
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N.E.P.A.D.
The new partnership for
Africa's development is a plan conceived by African leaders to address
issues such as hunger, poverty, and economic growth and development at
they pertain to Africa. It is currently "the plan" for Africa's
redevelopment. Some even refer to it as a Marshall Plan for Africa.
Select a link below to learn more about NEPAD. Select a link below to
learn more about NEPAD.
UN Economic Commission for Africa
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| NEPAD
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