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From Activist to President: Why Youssou Ndour shouldn’t be President of Senegal

Don’t get me wrong, I like Youssou Ndour. I have met him. I think he is a man of high calibre with extensive influence in

My Top 50 Africans of the year 2011

“Across Africa, we have seen countless examples of people taking control of their destiny, and making change from the bottom up.” President Obama 2009 Here

West and Central Africa winners of Apps4Africa announced

Since October 2011, Jonathan Gosier, TED Fellow and CEO of AppAfrica International supported by Spotone Global Solutions, led by group CEO Marieme Jamme, have been

Day 1:fasting vs famine

I was born Muslim, read the Koran until the age of 13 years old. Have not practice my Muslim faith thoroughly in recent years for

By: marieme - 11 June 2010 - Comments Off

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 living in Africa in [...]

By: marieme - 06 May 2010 - 0 Comments

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 [...]

By: marieme - 30 April 2010 - 11 Comments

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 [...]

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