South Africa
Society | Culture - Arts | Media
Selling sex, crime & soccer to South Africans
afrol News, 31 October - South Africa's popular and successful 'Daily Sun' has published its 1000th edition, after reaching a brand new readership among poor South Africans with its focus on violence, sex and sports. Front page images of the controversial daily are often shocking, but revealing of township realities.
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Mali
Culture - Arts | Science - Education | Society
Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance
afrol News, 13 September - Efforts to conserve, store and expose the estimated 700,000 Timbuktu manuscripts, one of Africa's principal cultural heritages, are going well ahead. Malians are educated into specialised manuscript conservators in South Africa and Tunisia and a new building to house the manuscripts is already being constructed in Mali's ancient town of Timbuktu.
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Africa
Culture - Arts
More African World Heritage sites wanted
afrol News, 3 May - Far too few African sites are included on UNESCO's World Heritage list, the UN agency recognises. Sites on the prestigious list can give a boost to tourism, but the process is also costly. A detailed conservation and management plan must be approved of. Now, the UN agency aims at helping African governments by establishing a fund to "improve the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage."
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Nigeria
Culture - Arts | Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
Nigeria hopes for forex revenues on arts, culture
afrol News, 24 February - Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that art and culture was not only a means of wealth creation and poverty reduction, but could also earn foreign exchange for the country. The Nigerian leader in particular had the tourism industry in mind.
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