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How To Deal With Chinese Businessmen In Africa

How To Deal With Chinese Businessmen In Africa

The Chinese have always looked at Africa from an eclectic perspective of infinite possibilities, and they are here for business, not to make friends. Do you know how to do business with the Chinese? Entrepreneurs from Africa’s emerging economies send seductive business invitations to individuals all over the world, but it’s most often their Chinese […]

How To Earn $100 Per Day With Google AdSense, And How Much Traffic You Need

How To Earn $100 Per Day With Google AdSense, And How Much Traffic You Need

Earning $100, $200 or even $300 per day with Google AdSense is not an impossible job.Many bloggers and website owners are doing it, and you are not an exception. The only thing you need is better planning and execution, hard work, determination and passion for blogging about your topic or niche. Before diving into the […]

Dispelling the myths about Nigeria’s Boko Haram

Dispelling the myths about Nigeria’s Boko Haram

Nigerian militant Boko Haram group has become a permanent fixture on the news, especially with the kidnap of the Chibok girls. But little is known about the Islamist sect and much commentary is misplaced or incorrect. Nigeria researchers met in Paris this week at the European Conference on African Studies and took part in a […]

Roc Nation’s ROMANS The Next Big Thing: Stream Overthinking Part 1

Roc Nation’s ROMANS The Next Big Thing: Stream Overthinking Part 1

Having earned his chops behind-the-scenes—writing and producing for the likes of Mary J. Blige, John Legend, and Disclosure, to name just a few UK singer/songwriter Romans has made his artist debut under the guidance of Roc Nation. He has divided the project into two acts, the first of which, Overthinking Part 1, features a quartet […]

Heavy Toll to Pay for Decrepit Roads

Heavy Toll to Pay for Decrepit Roads

The state of Zimbabwe’s roads is the stuff of legend. From whole trucks submerged in water-filled craters right in the central business district to gruesome road accidents, motorists must navigate hazards like these every day. For Naison Maravanyika, a 36-year-old taxi driver who knows Bulawayo’s streets like the back of his hand, the conditions demand […]

Fighting Fear and Apathy in Zimbabwe

Fighting Fear and Apathy in Zimbabwe

A visit to rural communities engaged in a fight over land rights with a large Ethanol producing company showed Farai Mabeza the power of local organization and fearless freedom of expression. In his inaugural blog for Waza, Farai reflects on the nature of active citizenship and local governance in Zimbabwe. The journey from Harare to […]

Thomas Jefferson’s attempted to abolish slavery in the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson’s attempted to abolish slavery in the Declaration of Independence

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson’s most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated — both the chattel slavery of Africans in America and the civil slavery that fired patriot rhetoric — it is conspicuously absent from the final version of the […]

WWI Claimed More Than One Million African Soldiers

WWI Claimed More Than One Million African Soldiers

More than one million people died in East Africa during World War One. Some soldiers were forced to fight members of their own families on the battlefield because of the way borders were drawn up by European colonial powers, writes Oswald Masebo. I was born and raised in a simple home in the rural district […]

Grace’s Bedroom Coup Holds

Grace’s Bedroom Coup Holds

WHEN former war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda last October warned of a “bedroom coup” brewing in Zanu PF ahead of the party’s acrimonious December congress, his remarks could have simply been dismissed as polemics in an intensifying succession battle. However, those discerning immediately realised what he was talking about and started watching the developments closely […]

Muammar Gaddafi’s Last Speech – Arab leaders Laugh

Muammar Gaddafi’s Last Speech – Arab leaders Laugh

In the name of Allah, the…beneficent, the merciful… For 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy […]

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