#Kwame_Nkrumah, #timbre, #Ghana, #panafricanisme
Portrait de Kwame Nkrumah sur un timbre soviétique de 10 kopeck datant de 1989.
#Kwame_Nkrumah, #timbre, #Ghana, #panafricanisme
#Qatar jails #US couple for killing daughter to “sell her organs”
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/qatar-jails-us-couple-killing-daughter-sell-her-organs
A Qatari court on Thursday condemned a US couple from Los Angeles to three years in prison for allegedly causing the death of their adopted eight-year-old daughter to sell her organs or “perform medical experiments on them.” Matthew and Grace Huang were arrested in January 2013 after their daughter Gloria from Ghana died. The couple were also ordered to pay a fine of 15,000 riyals (4,100 dollars) each and will be deported after serving their sentence. read more
“An African City,” the #web_series about five single women in #Accra, #Ghana
▻http://africasacountry.com/on-that-youtube-drama-series-about-five-single-women-in-accra-ghana
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
Que deviennent les prothèses après la mort ?
BBC - Future - What happens to prosthetics and implants after you die?
▻http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140311-body-parts-that-live-after-death?ocid=FR_outbrain_future
Inert devices such as breast implants and replacement hips tend not to be removed after death, largely because there’s no compelling reason to do so, and they pose little threat to the environment. So it’s likely that the archaeologists of future centuries will uncover peculiar objects in the graves of the millennial dead: silicone bags, plastic teeth and sculpted metal bones.
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Dutch company Orthometals, for example, collects 250 tonnes of metal every year from hundreds of crematoriums around Europe. At their facility in Steenbergen, it is sorted and melted down into ingots before being sold to the automobile and aeronautical industries. A similar US company, Implant Recycling, sells the melted and recast metals back into the medical industry. After you die, a little piece of you may one day end up in an aeroplane, a wind turbine, or even another person.
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Once removed, implants are typically discarded – both the European Union and the US, among others, have rules that forbid the reuse of implanted medical devices. However, there is a growing trend to recover them for use in the developing world.
At $4,000 for a pacemaker and $20,000 for an ICD, a second-hand implant is the only way that millions of people will be able to afford this life-saving equipment. In the UK, charity Pace4Life collects functioning pacemakers from funeral parlours for use in India. In a similar effort, the journal Annals of Internal Medicine recently published the results of a US programme called Project My Heart Your Heart, which found that 75 patients who received second-hand ICDs showed no evidence of infection or malfunction. The group are now applying for FDA approval to send recycled heart devices overseas.
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Back in Nashville, Standing With Hope has adopted a similar approach by shipping prosthetic limbs to Ghana. The charity’s co-founder, Gracie Rosenberger, was badly injured in a traffic accident at 17, an incident which cost her both legs. Like many amputees, Gracie acquired a stockpile of prosthetics over the years, which made her wonder whether they could be put to better use. As limbs are replaced or outgrown, the old ones gather dust in the backs of closets. When an amputee passes away, the family are often left with a cache of working limbs but no one to take them.
“The private insurers do not want it back, I don’t even think Medicare wants it back,” explains Rosenberger’s husband Peter, who is president of Standing With Hope. “There are all kinds of liabilities. So a lot of this stuff is discarded, unfortunately.”
Now amputees and their families can send old limbs in the mail to the Rosenbergers. When asking for donations, Standing With Hope’s website reads: “We’re not asking for an arm and a leg... just a leg”.
The goal is to beat last year’s total of 500 replacement limbs delivered to Ghana. “Last year I had a thing I called Operation Footloose, and on my radio show I would play the theme from Footloose and say ‘turn that foot loose so we can recycle it’,” Peter laughs.
Just like organ donors, those that bequeath their medical implants can bid farewell to the world with the knowledge they offer a stranger a second chance at life, be it a man with a heart defect in India, a woman undergoing a hip replacement in America, or a child with a missing limb in Ghana.
On that Youtube drama series about four single women in #Accra, #Ghana
▻http://africasacountry.com/on-that-youtube-drama-series-about-four-single-women-in-accra-ghana
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 quite poignantly 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.
#Ghana struggling to translate oil money into development gains
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/03/ghana-oil-money-development-gains
Infrastructure development remains slow, fuelling fears that the transformative potential of oil may have been overestimated
Weekend #MUSIC Break 66
▻http://africasacountry.com/weekend-music-break-66
10 new music videos from Tanzania, Senegal, South Africa, Cameroon, Mali, Congo, and Ghana. But first, Nigeria. #Seun_Kuti and Egypt 80 have a new record coming out next month. Here’s a first single, with help from Dead Prez’s M-1. In case you were unsure what Seun Kuti thinks of the “I.M.F.”: Young Senegalese singer […]
#M.anifest #Mamani_Keita #Ouzin #P.P.S_the_writah #Sango'a_Mboa #Teddy_Benzo #Tycoon_Shah #VaalSow #Yugen_Blakrok
Les #déchets_électroniques intoxiquent le #Ghana
▻http://lemonde.fr/planete/article/2013/12/27/les-dechets-electroniques-intoxiquent-le-ghana_4340635_3244.html
Tablettes, écrans plats, Smartphones, etc. Les cadeaux high-tech offerts à Noël vont pousser à la poubelle une ancienne génération d’équipements. Et beaucoup de ces rebuts électroniques termineront dans des décharges à ciel ouvert dans les pays les plus pauvres de la planète, notamment en Afrique.
Le problème est connu mais n’en finit pas de s’amplifier. Une étude, chapeautée par l’ONU et qui vient d’être publiée, prédit que les déchets électroniques mondiaux vont croître d’un tiers d’ici à 2017 pour représenter chaque année une montagne de 65,4 millions de tonnes de détritus – soit près de 200 fois la masse de l’Empire State Building. Le Ghana est l’un des pays les plus touchés.
Joint par téléphone, il prend immédiatement pour exemple le marché d’Agbogbloshie, dans la banlieue d’Accra – véritable catastrophe sanitaire – où se trouve l’une des plus grandes décharges de produits électroniques au monde : « Des fumées âcres se dégagent des produits qui sont brûlés, et les gens qui viennent faire leurs courses les respirent. Les particules de pollution s’attachent aussi aux aliments, qu’on mange ensuite. Ca provoque des maux de tête, des irritations de la peau. Mais surtout, même si on n’a pas d’études pour le prouver, on soupçonne que ça provoque des cancers à long terme. »
Soudain j’ai comme un doute ! La bouilloire électrique a rendu l’âme l’autre jour et je l’ai consciencieusement mise dans le container prévu pour le recyclage devant carrefour market plus accessible que la déchetterie municipale quand on n’a pas de voiture... D’habitude je réserve tout ça à Jacky le ferrailleur, une perle, mais je ne le vois plus beaucoup circuler dans le coin. Paradoxalement, les ressources deviennent rares en même temps que cette activité souterraine se développe. Pas assez en tout cas, selon l’article cité ici
#Ghana in 2013 : Five Lessons Learned
▻http://africasacountry.com/ghana-in-2013-five-lessons-learned
It has been a year since Ghana held presidential and parliamentary elections — elections that saw John Dramani Mahama hold on to the presidency six months after he stepped into the position following the death of the then president John Atta Mills. In 12 months, we’ve had an unnecessarily lengthy court case, corruption claims and […]
#POLITICS #Quotes #E_dey_be_k3k3 #Mahamudu_Bawumia #New_Patriotic_Party #Victoria_Hammah
#Azonto Americana
▻http://africasacountry.com/azonto-americana
Azonto has been huge in #Ghana, obviously, and the rest of Africa. Then it made its grand entrance to London and the United Kingdom with some help from the British-born Ghana boy Fuse ODG, especially with Antenna . It was cool seeing the London All Stars do their Azonto thing, but I was hoping maybe, just maybe, it might finally touchdown here in the US. My salvation might be at hand in the form of the production company, Level 7 .
Egypte-Ghana : une vieille histoire d’amour | Le blog à Bécassine
▻http://becassine.info/2013/11/20/873
A propos du football, de la politique et d’un mariage qui a lié les deux pays.
A lire, sur Orient XXI Football, « hors-jeu » politique
►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/football-hors-jeu-politique,0425
#Kwame_Nkrumah’s team are going to the World Cup
▻http://africasacountry.com/kwame-nkrumahs-team-are-going-to-the-world-cup
Despite coming in for plenty of criticism from European and American journalists, Africa’s high-stakes, winner-takes-all World Cup qualifying system once again threw up an enthralling set of matches. The most remarkable result was #Ghana’s whopping 6-1 win over Egypt, and “BaGhana BaGhana” confirmed their tickets to Brazil yesterday in Cairo. There has always been something […]
#Football_is_a_Country #HISTORY #SPORT #Amilcar_Cabral #France #Nnamdi_Azikiwe #Paul_Pogba #Soccerhene #Stanley_Matthews
Dark Mail Alliance : Welcome To The Beginning - dupartdominique gmail.com - Gmail
►https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14258527eb145166
We have had an overwhelming response from email providers all over the world, including such far away places as Ghana, Iceland, Russia and the South Pacific Islands. We are going to do all we can to keep everyone informed, communicate and work side by side with these early-adopter providers. Our hope is that when most of us have it ready to go, we launch as an entire group so people around the world will have immediate options of providers from day 1. Not a small undertaking and one that will take some time, but one that will happen.
Weekend #MUSIC Break 61
▻http://africasacountry.com/weekend-music-break-61
Your weekly collection of new tunes and videos — this week from Zambia, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali, South Africa and the Netherlands, but first: Congo. This year’s Salaam Kivu International Film Festival (#SKIFF), which took place in Goma in July, had as its theme “Agizo ya Lumumba — Justice”. The festival’s programme included film screenings and […]
#Block_Kids_on_the_New #Doctor_L #FuseODG #Joya_Mooi #Le_Cube #Little_Harry #Mumba_Yachi #Pap_G #Sampha_Sisay #Sarkodie #Spoek_Mathambo
Ghana’s poor eke out a living from toxic e-waste - Voices of Africa
▻http://voicesofafrica.co.za/ghanas-poor-eke-living-toxic-e-waste
More than five million pieces of second-hand electronics arrive in the West African nation annually, mainly from Europe, the United States and China, according to a 2012 report by Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Those not in working condition – about three-quarters of the shipments docking at Accra’s main port – are dumped at Agbogbloshie, the EPA says.
Over the years, the landfill has morphed into a toxic graveyard containing tens of millions of discarded electronics, or e-waste.
It has also become a source of income for the poorest of the poor who search for recyclable metals, like aluminium, copper and iron, that they sell to scrap dealers for a few cents.
Environmental and health risks
More than a quarter of Ghana’s 25-million people live under the poverty line of 1.25 dollars a day, according to World Bank data.
About 40 000 of them, including young children, live in the slum next to the dump and eke out a living from toxic e-waste.
“I lost my job as a security guard five years ago. The only way I can feed my family is by sorting through scrap. My son stopped going to school to help me,” explains Amenume, who hails from the village of Alakple, in the country’s north-east.
“We know we can get sick from the smoke. But if we stop working here, we won’t have anything to eat,” he adds.
#déchets_électroniques #déchets_toxiques #décharges #bidonvilles #récupération #pauvreté
Three Signs of #Ghana’s #ART Times
▻http://africasacountry.com/three-signs-of-ghanas-art-times
Ghana is currently experiencing a surge of contemporary performing and visual arts. Here are some notes on goings on about #Accra-town. I. #Song_of_the_Pharaoh A new play, Song of the Pharaoh by leading playwright Mohammed Ben Abdallah has been in the works for over a year, being rehearsed, work-shopped, and performed at Ghana’s […]
Weekend #MUSIC Break 58
▻http://africasacountry.com/weekend-music-break-58
Your weekly dose of 10 new music videos. First up, from Kenya, #Muthoni_The_Drummer_Queen’s ode to Nairobi: #M.anifest, “Ghana man since 19 kojo-hoho”: #Indocile is a hip-hop crew from Liège, Belgium: South of Belgium, representing the Congolese diaspora in France, new work by #Black_Bazar: Ol’Kainry (representing Benin) and #Youssoupha bring their version […]
#Character #Davido #Dj_Kent #Mono-T #Ol'Kainry #Oskido #The_Arrows #Toro_Y_Moi
‘أي حاجة منتخبة في مصر عايزة انقلاب’ ‘واضح أن مصر مافيهاش فريق سوى السيسي’ و’السيسي قال مصر قد الدنيا .. بس ما قلش قد غانا’ | القدس العربي Alquds Newspaper
▻http://www.alquds.co.uk/?p=93952
هزيمة كروية من غانا تثير سخرية سياسية وتعليقات تعكس تباين الآراء بشأن الأوضاع السياسية الراهنة في مصر
« La défaite footballistique contre le Ghana [1-6 !!!] suscite les moqueries politiques et des commentaires qui reflètent la divergence des points de vue à propos de la situation politique actuelle en Egypte. »
Un séisme presque aussi important que l’incarcération du président Morsi, cette défaite !
La croissance de l’économie n’arrive pas à créer des emplois
▻http://ipsinternational.org/fr/_note.asp?idnews=7806
Des données et statistiques sur l’emploi au #Ghana sont rares.
En 2012, le ministre de l’Emploi et de la Protection sociale d’alors, Moses Asaga, avait admis que le gouvernement n’avait pas de données actualisées ou fiables sur le marché du travail.
Les informations disponibles auprès de l’Institut de la recherche statistique, sociale, et économique (ISSER) à l’Université du Ghana à Legon estiment qu’environ 250.000 jeunes entrent sur le marché du travail chaque année, dont deux pour cent, soit environ 5.000, trouvent du travail dans le secteur formel.
Selon une recherche en cours de réalisation par l’ISSER, 23 pour cent des jeunes âgés de 15 à 24 ans et 28,8 pour cent des diplômés âgés de 25 à 35 ans attendent deux ans ou plus avant d’être employés.
Dr William Baah-Boateng, l’un des chercheurs de l’étude d’ISSER, affirme qu’au cours des 20 dernières années, la croissance du Ghana a été de 5,1 pour cent en moyenne, et que cela ne s’est pas traduit par une hausse des emplois.
Selon la Banque africaine de développement, ce pays d’Afrique de l’ouest a enregistré une croissance de 7,1 pour cent en 2012, grâce aux recettes provenant de la production de pétrole, du secteur des services et de l’exportation de l’or et de cacao. C’était une baisse par rapport aux 14,4 pour cent de croissance enregistrée en 2011, qui a été attribuée au démarrage de la production de pétrole dans le pays.
Un autre rapport de l’Organisation internationale du travail indique que le secteur public représente six pour cent des emplois au Ghana, tandis que le secteur privé informel renferme 86 pour cent.
#Ghana’s Independence Era Through the Lens of S.K. Pobee
▻http://africasacountry.com/ghanas-independence-era-through-the-lens-of-s-k-pobee
The photos below (click to enlarge), offering a glimpse into the joy and optimism of the immediate post-Independence period in #Accra, are from #Samuel_Kobian_Pobee’s Modern Photo laboratory. They were acquired by Samy Ben Redjeb of the #Analog_Africa record label while he was during research for the liner notes for his latest release […]
Make #Bono History
▻http://africasacountry.com/make-bono-history
Firstly Bono is collaborating with brostep pioneer Skrillex to save the African children. (They were together in Ghana last month.) Secondly #the_observer (or #The_Guardian; it’s the same thing) has just published what might just be the most revealing and absurd interview with the world’s most self-righteous tax-dodging man who never removes his shades. […]
He provides a celebrity cover for imperialism and promotes a substanceless vision of development in which the agency of poor black Africans is non-existent. Instead they exist as passive subjects just waiting for Bono to parachute in and hand out same aid parcels. Oh and also he is a dick and proud tax-dodger in country (Ireland) which has just seen its economy collapse in debt crises brought upon by a rather loose and corrupt financial regime.
“This is not only #Ghana’s loss” — #Ato_Quayson remembers #Kofi_Awoonor (1935-2013)
▻http://africasacountry.com/kofi-awoonor
I first met Kofi Awoonor as an excitable 17-year-old high school student then in the Sixth Form. We had been set Awoonor’s This Earth, My Brother as one of our A-Level texts, and needless to say no one, including the English teacher, seemed to have the faintest clue what the novel was about. I decided […]
Futuristic Folklore in #James_Town, #Ghana
▻http://africasacountry.com/futuristic-folklore-in-james-town-ghana
The streets were dense. Thick with heat from bodies and the sun, as crowds of people gathered in James Town, #Accra last week to take part in this year’s Chale Wote street #ART festival. It is often said that you can’t know where you are going until you look at where you came from. That is to say that if you want to create or re-imagine your future consider your past and what could be changed for you to achieve the desired (...)
#EVENTS #HISTORY #PHOTOGRAPHY #Chale_Wote_street_art_festival
GM crops: campaigners in #Ghana accuse US of pushing modified food | Afua Hirsch | Global development | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/24/gm-crops-ghana-us-genetically-modified-food
But one Ghanaian campaign group refused the invitation. “Our call for a moratorium on GM foods was met with an invitation to a closed-door discussion,” said Duke Tagoe, of Food Sovereignty Ghana, which campaigns for greater transparency about GM foods. “We are deeply worried about what seems like an imposition of genetically modified foods on the good people of Ghana without any meaningful public discourse, compounded by attempts to stifle any opposition.”
Food Sovereignty Ghana and other domestic organisations accuse the US and other foreign donors of promoting GM foods to west African countries, and tying aid to implementation.
#OGM #lobby #semences
According to a leaked cable, the US government was heavily involved in drafting Ghana’s 2011 Biosafety Act, which provided a framework for the introduction of GM foods. The US aid department provided technical assistance and some funding.
Ingérences et manipulations au #Soudan
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/03/CONCHIGLIA/48830
Quels facteurs ont conduit à la sécession du Sud au Soudan, après le référendum d’autodétermination du 9 juillet 2011 — qui a entériné l’existence de deux Etats, la République du #Soudan_du_Sud et la République du Soudan —, et quelle en est la portée ? Selon l’ancien ambassadeur français au Soudan, arabisant (...) / #Afrique, États-Unis (affaires extérieures), #Israël, Soudan, #Christianisme, #Conflit, #Islam, #Religion, #Ghana, #Conflit_du_Darfour, #Coup_d'État, #Mouvement_de_libération, #Indépendance, Soudan du Sud - (...)