Africa

Americans are celebrating the latest Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain now has a nine point lead over Obama (49 percent to 40 percent). What a change from Obama's earlier lead of 7 percentage points!

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Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, is in London for the week to celebrate his 90th birthday. He is set to attend an outdoor concert that is in his honor in Hyde Park on this coming Friday. The performances will include Queen, Annie Lennox, Leona Lewis, and the Soweto Gospel Choir. Amy Winehouse will also perform if her doctors say that it is okay for her to do so. The proceeds from the concert will go to 46664 charity, which is the AIDS charity named after the number Mandela wore while he was imprisoned by South Africa’s apartheid authorities.

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Kenya, hardly a glaring example of a First world country, is to pay its already well paid MP's $115,000 each when their term ends in December - or should I really say they decided to pay themselves that sum.

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African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50 nations, each with a special culture, history and language, South of Sahara. Zulu musical instruments are part of this multilingual culture. African music has some distinct characteristics: the use of repetition is one of them. Another important characteristic is the polyphony; this is the combination of different musical parts played simultaneously.

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Hey,

I just took action with the ONE Campaign to ask President Bush to fund poverty fighting programs in 2008. You can help by writing the president here:
http://action.one.org/dia/organizationsONE/one/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1299

Check out this e-mail from Josh Peck at ONE for more info:

From: Josh Peck, ONE.org
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007
Subject: National Priorities

Dear ONE Member,

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AIDS

More than 38 million people around the world are infected by HIV/AIDS, 25 million in Africa alone. Left untreated, AIDS leads to an early death for people in their most productive years who are needed to raise crops and families, teach school and care for the sick. For more information about global AIDS click here.

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A little about ONE, DATA, EDUN, and RED...from an interview with Bono

coppied from http://www.one.org

Few Words From Bono
Posted by Virginia
12:00 PM Oct 13, 2006

As Product (RED) launches in America, opening a new front in the war against AIDS, a few words from Bono:

"Sometimes when I'm walking down the street a passer by will say "love your work on Africa Bono, great cause." Sometimes, they wish they hadn't. As I'm Irish, I love to talk to strangers. I love to talk about Africa. It can be hard to get away. . . Each time it makes me think we need to do much more to get the message across that this is not a 'cause,' this pandemic that we and so many others are working on. 5,500 Africans dying a day of AIDS, a preventable, treatable disease is not a cause. 5,500 Africans dying each day is an emergency.

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

copied from the my subscriber log-in at U2.com

26.01.2006
Seeing RED
Bono has launched Product RED, a global brand which will raise funds to fight AIDS in Africa. It's not philanthropy, he said, but 'doing good, will turn out to be doing good business.'

The launch of RED took place in Davos, Switzerland today, when Bono and Bobby Shriver joined with American Express, Gap, Converse and Giorgio Armani to unveil the T-shirts, shoes, sunglasses and credit card which are the first items in the new line.

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United States of America considers itself as the custodian of democracy. They cannot tolerate any totalitarian regimes. They will go to any extent to see that democracy is restored. They did it in Iraq. Now they are after Iran.

The worst totalitarian regimes and murderers of democracy exist in Africa. The classic example is the suffering of a section of Sudanese people in the Darfur region. Mass rapes and refugees are an every day story. Numerous other African nations are starving and dictators and warlords control these nations. Apart from a very bad experience in Somalia, United States is rarely interested in assuring in democratic regimes in Africa. No idea, why this double standard.

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Most of us might not have a clue about Cote D’Ivoire. But we all know Ivory Coast – world’s largest cocoa producer. Cote D’Ivoire is the official name of Ivory Coast and the nation has qualified for Fifa World Cup 2006. The cocoa for the chocolates we eat comes from this nation.

Ivory Coast is located in Western Africa. It is bordered by Mali and Burkina Faso in the north, Ghana in the east, Liberia and Guinea in the west and by Gulf of Guinea in the south. The country was under French control before its independence on August 7, 1960. This is the reason for the French connection in the official name. Like other African nations, Ivory Coast also had its share of civil wars and internal strives.

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This evening, I attended a presentation about human evolution. One of the greatest points that I took away from the meeting is the growing controversy surrounding the question of human evolution. Did we all come from Africa as modern science dictates, or did we evolve in the Americas as recent evidence suggests?

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