The Zanzibari singer Bi Kidude has died. It is believed she was 102 or 103 years old. Adam Salkeld gives a personal appreciation.
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Iyadunni Olubode on LEAP
LEAP’s target audience are essentially youth and business owners. We reach our audience primarily through training programmes and our published resources which both support the cultivation of personal leadership as well as community and organisational leadership. To date, LEAP has over 9 publications, which serve as tools to support personal and organisational leadership development. Our youth programmes focus on the development of leadership and […]
Happy birthday to the mobile phone!
It was exactly 40 years ago today that Martin Cooper, a Motorola executive and researcher, stood on a Manhattan sidewalk and called his rival, Dr Joel S. Engel of Bell Laboratories, to announce that he’d successfully beaten him to creating the first-ever mobile telephone. “Joel”, he said, according to a 2003 BBC interview, “I’m calling you from a ‘real’ cellular telephone – a portable, […]
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Traditions in Ndjock-Nkong
Gaston Bappa: There are slight particularities and differences in traditions between clans of the same tribe. My village, Ndjock-Nkong, is of the Basaa tribe in Cameroon. There are a lot of traditions in the village. They are what maintains life there. Without traditions, no life is possible in many African villages, as people are poor in many of them. Here is the main set […]
Gaston Bappa on his village, Ndjock-Nkong
Ndjock-Nkong is the name of my village. It is situated in the litoral region of Cameroon, Sanaga Maritime division. The village is in a heavily forested zone, with a great and long rainy season. The population numbers fewer than 300 people. It has been decreasing because of remoteness. Its community is one of a larger clan called Ndog-Nem, which has six sub-clans in four […]
Cameroon’s chiefs in law
The Cameroonian administration has organised and defined the traditional chief’s institution in a decree from the Head of State dated 15 July 1977. Here are the due disposals, as they are stated in it: -Article 19 : Under the authority of the Minister of Territorial Administration, the role of traditional leaders is to assist the administrative authorities in their task of coaching populations. -Article […]
The eLearning Africa news service is looking for writers!
The eLearning Africa news service is looking for writers for its news portal. Would you like to report on how Africa’s ICT-enhanced learning industry is developing in your area/country/region? Would you like to share an interesting ICT4D project or development that is linked to eLearning Africa 2013’s themes of tradition, change and innovation? Then the eLearning Africa news service would like to hear from […]
Tweets of the week Monday, September 24th – Friday, September 28th 2012
Our week got off to an inspirational start as we shared a story about a community school on the Kenyan island of Lamu where young girls are reaching for education as a shield against poverty and ill-advised early marriages http://bit.ly/OVCJXT. The news is less rosy in Mali, where the country’s political turmoil has brought countless services to a virtual standstill, and thousands of children […]
Tweets of the week Monday, September 17th – Friday, September 21st 2012
It was a quiet week on the tweet front, but we did share a couple of outstanding reports with our followers. We learnt about how technology is “speeding up work for people with disabilities” and passed on the information. Read all about the new face of telecommuting here: http://bbc.in/On8dG5. We also shared a story from our own news portal, “Teching the high road.” Reporter […]
