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When Rex Tillerson toured some of Africa’s “shithole” countries
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“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” “Why do we need more Haitians?” “Take them out.” – these words, allegedly uttered by U.S. President Donald Trump, referred to the immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries to the United States. These comments garnered various reactions from U.S. lawmakers, Africans–both on the…

#POLITICS #Chad #Djibouti #Ethiopia #Kenya #Nigeria

Street Life in an African City: #Oxford_Street in #Accra
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The evidence of material on African cities does not inspire confidence. They are increasingly overcrowded with no clear plan for matching population growth to available facilities. Sewage and garbage disposal are perennial problems. Laboring street children are everywhere. The hope some five decades ago when many countries gained freedom from their former colonial masters was […]

#African_Urbanism #Ghana

Street Life in the African City: #Oxford_Street in #Accra
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The evidence of material on African cities does not inspire confidence. They are increasingly overcrowded with no clear plan for matching population growth to available facilities. Sewage and garbage disposal are perennial problems. Laboring street children are everywhere. The hope some five decades ago when many countries gained freedom from their former colonial masters was […]

#African_Urbanism #Ghana

“An African City,” the #web_series about five single women in #Accra, #Ghana
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For the last few weeks social #MEDIA has been abuzz with comments about a new web series set in Accra called #An_African_City. The series tells the story of the ’Afropolitan Returnee’ and as one viewer aptly put it: it is “Sex and the City meets Americanah where she [the book’s protagonist] goes back to Lagos.” Though not as finely tuned.

#VIDEO #Africa_Rising #Afropolitans #Girlfriends #Sex_and_the_City