February 2012
166 posts
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Watchgoodbaduglybeauty:
Shuga is a hard hitting 3-part drama series that follows the lives and loves of a group of cool young students whose bright lives and fabulous futures are balanced on a knife edge due to their love of risk and danger. Its a story of love, sex, Friday nights and the indelible marks we leave on one another. Shuga tells the story of Ayira, a modern girl who knows exactly what she...
Watchafricaisdonesuffering:
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Want to help Africa? Do business here
We know the negative images of Africa — famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there’s another, less-told story happening in many African nations: one of reform, economic growth and business opportunity.
As the first female Finance Minister in Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...
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Watchdynamicafrica:
Cirque Shems’y, the circus of my sun, sits on the edge of one of #Morocco’s poorest slums in Salé, on the northwest coast. Each year, hundreds of children and teenagers come to the circus to try out as performers, desperate to find a new future for themselves. Only a handful of the young hopefuls can be taken on: those who make the grade are pushed to their physical limits and...
Watchdynamicafrica:
An Eritrean refugee talks about being tortured in Sinai
Mogos Redae was tortured by smugglers in the Egyptian Sinai region for nine months until his family sold their homes to raise enough money to secure his release – $14,000. A brutal trafficking industry has flourished over the past year in which Bedouin gangs, emboldened by their apparent impunity, extort higher and higher...