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11/06/2010
Open letter to Bono and Bob Geldof

Dear Bono and Sir Bob As an African woman from Senegal, I write this letter with some sadness. I have been following you both since I was a young girl. I was a fan of your music too. It was amazing to follow your exploits as a young Senegalese girl. And it feels strange now […]

06/05/2010
After call (1million shirts)

I had a very constructive conversation with the 1 million shirts founder, Jason Sadler, and the international development guys on Twitter last week. Jason told us that he had simply wanted to use his involvement in clothes retailing and his marketing savvy to do good in Africa, using social media platforms as the springboard for […]

30/04/2010
Another Bad AID Idea for Africa

I was alerted yesterday morning by Linda Raftree alias @meowtree on Twitter to the existence of a project to send 1 million tee-shirts to Africa. Run by a certain Jason Sadler, you can find out all about it here Jason asks each t-shirt donor to enclose a minimum of $1 to contribute to shipping costs. […]

07/03/2010
Why AID money isn’t reaching the poor in Africa

Wikipedia defines aid as "a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another, given at least partly with the objective of benefiting the recipient country.“ There are thousands of charities around the world that want to do good in Africa. Some of them are having a positive impact, working extremely hard to make a […]

12/11/2009
End of Poverty?

Millions are dying with hunger in our society today and this should not happen. I am sure we can do something about it. This video you are about to view is alarming and demonstrate how the west is failing its promises to the developing world. We need to act now! Source from the zyOzy Blog: […]

11/11/2009
Africa is Content!

Africa, the continent everybody's talking about needs the biggest PR company in the world. Is 2010 the year to Brand and Market the African continent better? Africa will not be the Africa we knew 20 years ago, because its own people have taken the PR role via the social media web Twitter, Facebook and many […]

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