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Avatar: An Allegory for Colonial Era Africa?
James Cameron’s latest epic AVATAR arguably represents the greatest shift in filmmaking since 1999’s THE MATRIX. While it won’t break any grounds on story or ...
Solomon King on Becoming an Accidental Journalist
For blogger and citizen journalist Solomon King, the 2009 Kampala riots began with his tweet “Okay, we’re running for our lives.” Here he talks about ...
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Capital for Aquapreneurs
Water has always been one of human life’s most precious commodities, although until this decade it was one often taken for granted. As the planet’s ...
The Popularity of Programming Languages in Africa 2009
Last year I used data from Irrational Exuberance to find the common threads of computer programming in African countries. I thought I’d update that post ...
Lessons from Start-Up School
Y-Cominbator’s Start-Up School put the spotlight on some of tech’s most successful entrepreneurs, giving them an open mike to talk about their experiences and give ...
Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Windows
People Online’s internship program successfully launched today. One thing I was completely unprepared for was having to do a basic primer on development environments. ...
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Pricing Web Development Services in an African Market
Can we talk about money? Just for a moment? I know, I know, nobody wants to give away their secret sauce, but here’s the ...
Ugandan Civil War Stories…The Comic Book
Unknown Soldier is a new comicbook mini-sieries from DC Comics that attempts to tackle the complex history of Uganda’s struggle with the LRA.
Unknown Soldier, published ...
In Search of… African Sci-Fi Film
So the search turned up a few ‘classic’ African novels but not much else. GhanaGeek wrote on the very subject a few years ago, wondering ...
One Million Bones on Washington