Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society Hope for African banana farmers
afrol News - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's commitment to grant US $74,000 to sponsor the planned pan-African banana conference in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa is a blessing for African banana farmers.
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Economy - Development | Politics | Travel - Leisure East African tourism still cracks
afrol News - Several bottlenecks have continued to hinder the growth of tourism in East Africa, delegates to the First East African Investment Conference in Rwanda were told.
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Culture - Arts | Society Beads - a showcase of Africa's heritage
Misanet / IPS - The oldest known African bead is more than 12.000 years old and was found in the Kalahari Desert, but South African beads may be up to 75,000 years old. Almost equally old beads are found in Libya and Sudan. As a continental-wide cultural heritage, beads have served as fine jewellery, small pieces of art, haute couture, royal regalia, divine faience and even legal tender throughout the history of Africa. In Kenya, a handicraft-centre-turned-museum exposes this showcase of African heritage.
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Society | Culture - Arts German Wituland, a colonial rarity
afrol News - It is common knowledge that the German colonial empire in Africa included only four short-lived colonies where colonial rule was harsh; Togo, Kamerun, South-West Africa (Namibia) and East Africa (Tanzania). This is however wrong. Even in the more short-lived German colony Wituland (now in Kenya), the local population rioted against the Germans in 1890 - because they were leaving.
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