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With more than 30 films, performances, podium discussions, and seminars, this year's theme, will be "Diverse & Together – A Complexion Change". The festival consists primarily of films from Africa, the African Diaspora and other films that deal with the portrayal of various...
The international corporate media including the BBC could also be spoiling things for MDC and Zimbabweans in particular. They should avoid over sensationalization which may exacerbate the situation in the country. Their increasingly antagonistic approach could be more damaging to the political...
“Since the British came and went, they have done nothing for us after slavery. All their names are on the streets. You come into Freetown you see them, the only street with an African name is Siaka Stevens street,” says resident Sammy Conteh.
The drugs are a common class of treatments called anthracyclines, including doxorubicin, epirubicin, and mitoxantrone. Since their introduction in the 1980s anthracyclines have replaced older chemotherapy drugs in the combination therapies given to women. Administered in the months after surgery...
Interestingly, certain remedies prescribed by Egyptian physicians were way ahead of modern anticipation. For instance, celery and saffron which were used for rheumatism, are currently hot topics of pharmaceutical research, and pomegranate was used to eradicate tapeworms, a remedy that remained in...
Other regions that have been found to contain a significant proportion of haplogroup K2 individuals include South India (18/305 or 5.9%), United Arab Emirates (8/164 or 4.9%), Ethiopia (6/126 or 4.8%), East India (14/367 or 3.8%), South Iran (4/117 or 3.4%), and Turkey (13/523 or 2.5%). One must...
Sooner than one realized it, this shadowy elite group that also controls the music and entertainment industry began discouraging positive musical messages, and went off the beaten track to encourage and glamourize slackness, prostitution, murders, stealing and theiving, drug peddling and the like....
She said that the rappers' slayings were fuelled by "the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing". The 27-year-old singer also claimed that the gangsta rap movement never existed, but was created "as a ploy to encourage black people to kill each...
Other physical anthropological research has also shown that the crania of Sub-Saharan Africans are generally wider than European and North African samples, verbatim. For example sub-Saharan specimens show a generalized vertical facial flattening, with consequent widening of the entire structure...
Atobrah and his associates have developed the Integrated Distributed Utilities Network (IDUN) to provide support for infrastructure requirements for such basic needs as potable water, telecommunications and Internet access. An IDUN can be located at community-based clinics, village and town...
A Nigerian novelist, pharmacist, broadcaster, forester, teacher, administrator, short-story writer, and children's author, Chief COD Ekwensi was born in Minna, Northern Nigeria in 1921. He attended Government College, Ibadan and Achimota College , Ghana. He later studied Pharmacy at the...
Africa House invites artists to submit their artworks for review. Africa House is currently reviewing works for the 2009 show.
Rolling Submissions
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Reminiscing a current exhibit at Akégo and Sahara gallery by Nkiru Uwechia, is a review of paintings and drawings created in the past. The exhibition provided me with the opportunity to share a nonrepresentative sample of works I produced in three distinct periods—in the mid-1970s, in the mid-1980s and in the early 1990s.
Transcontinental Dialogue: Uli Meets Njorowe a current exhibit at Akégo. The exhibition features Njorowe, which was carved by Makonde men, conceptualized by Dr. Nkiru Nzegwu, and designed with Uli by Chinwe Uwatse.
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Africa House is a lavish, soul-soothing and vibrant space that has two galleries, Akégo and Sahara. It offers black fine art and giclée prints, exceptional handcrafted home décors and accessories from Africa and its Diaspora, event space, and gourmet coffee and tea bar with fresh pastry.
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