The Dark Truth About Why South Africa Destroyed Its Nuclear Weapons in 1990
Why would any country voluntarily dismantle its nuclear weapons which take years and billions to develop?
South Africa is the only country which ever give up its nuclear dissuasion power.
But Why? Did they dismantle the country’s nuclear weapons because they believed in a vision of an Africa free of nuclear weapons, as the press reported?
NO.
The white apartheid regime didn't want a Black Nation to possess nuclear weapon, a dissuasive power in our contemporary world.
Foreseeing a Read more [...]
How to Escape Foreign Spying Programs
Yes, Americans are Spying on You. Yes Chinese are Spying on You. Yes French are Spying on You. In many African countries these countries' companies own the telecommunication companies, the hosting companies and all the basic infrastructure that run our countries.
After the recent revelation about the massive American spying program called PRISM, (which collects their data on almost everybody from mobile phone companies, Google (Gmail, search, G+) , Yahoo (yahoo Mail), Microsoft (Hotmail, Skydrive), Read more [...]
Forget the Internet, Education Through Radio is Bigger, More Affordable!
It was 5pm in Tado, a small village in the center-est of Togo in West Africa. Adjovi nervously chased away the domestic nanny-goat which was yelling to gather its babies before sunset. It was time for Adjovi's third radio course on small business accounting. She is eager to learn, because she wants to improve her seamstress business.
Adjovi's seamstress business was doing well, but has dramatically slowed down in the last months. She is worried. Revenue has declined and there are less and less Read more [...]
63 African Symbols For Creative Design
African symbols from Egypt are well known, but now is time to discover more African symbols specially from West Africa, called Adinkra.
Adinkra are visual symbols, originally created by the Ashanti of Ghana and the Gyaman of Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa. They represent concepts or aphorisms, and are extensively used in fabrics, pottery, logos and advertising.
The symbols have a decorative function but also represent objects that encapsulate evocative messages that convey traditional wisdom, Read more [...]
5 Images For the Naive African!
Africans live in a continent owned by Europeans. 60 years after the fictitious independence declarations, Africa is still controlled by European expatriates, oil companies, military forces, Banks, etc.
Some Africans think that is good for Africa. They are the rich subalterns. Some others think Africans must free themselves from that European colonialism, and they use art to get their message out.
Here are 5 of their most powerful illustrations.
1. They will pretend they want to help you. Believe Read more [...]
How My Family Became Christian During Colonial Time
My story is not simple. I never thought I will be talking about it in public, because in my family we don’t talk about it. My father didn’t want me to learn about it. Like in many families, mine too has some stories no one want to talk about, unless a trouble maker like me took the journey to know about my genealogy and my ancestors history.
I come from Tohoun, a remote village in the south-east part of Togo, 120 km from the capital Lome. I was born in 1973, the first boy for my mom Read more [...]
Following Rwanda, Senegal to Replace French by English to Develop the Country Faster
French is Dead. If it's the only language you speak, you'd have access to less than 4% of humanity knowledge and ideas. That's very limiting.
In United States more than 300,000 new book titles and editions are published every year. In United Kingdom this number is 206,000. Where does France stands?
In France only 63,000 new book titles and editions are published every year. This is 5 times less than the Unites States and 3 times less than United Kingdom. This means a person who is only literate Read more [...]
Entrepreneurship is NOT about Innovation, But Commercialization
Entrepreneurs role in society is Not Innovation, but taking promising innovation to market.
Great entrepreneurs start their business venture with phrases like "I want to bring this innovation to market", or "I'm looking for innovation that could solve this pain/problem".
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, didn't invent the search engine technology that got Google started. Robin Li did. In 1996, Li developed the Rankdex site-scoring algorithm for search engine page ranking, Read more [...]
From a Carpentry Workshop To a 5-Billion Animation Studio
Last year, LEGO has released a short animated film to celebrate its 80th birthday. The 17-minute video describes the life and struggles of founder Ole Kirk Christiansen (who created the company in 1932) and his son Godtfred (LEGO’s second owner).
The company started as carpentry workshop that mostly construct houses and furniture. In 1924, the workshop burned down. But, Ole Kirk stood up and constructed a larger workshop, and worked towards expanding his business. Unlucky, soon after, the world Read more [...]
The Hidden Trap That is Killing The African Internet Entrepreneurs
Low bandwidth and expensive access limit a lot what you can do with Internet in Africa. Therefore, if you want to build a successful web solution for African audience it should be lightweight using mostly text and a little bit of images. It's advised to avoid using voice or video.
Unfortunately, even if you are successful building this kind of lightweight website you'll fail, because there is a hidden trap.
A text based Internet works very well in the western or eastern world because of 99% Read more [...]