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AFRICAN IN BLOOMBERG 50: UPDATE
An update to our report that Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote is the only African on the Bloomberg 50 list of this year's most influential...
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A FIRST FOR USA/AFRICA JUSTICE
Restitution funds were given by the US Department of Justice to a young South African victim of a crime. The funds were seized from...
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ETHIOPIAN-AMERICAN SHINING STAR
Ilfenesh Hadera Ethiopian is among the new, up & coming stars. She's part of a new crop of African immigrants or the children of...
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AFRICAN IN BLOOMBERG 50
December 5, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" Africa's richest person (with a net worth of $14.6 billion dollars according to Forbes Magazine), Aliko Dangote was honored...
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SLAVERY 2017: RETURN MIGRANTS
December 4, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist"
SLAVERY IN 2017 According to a Voice Of America (VOA) report, "an airlift is under way to repatriate some 15,000...
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SLAVERY 2017: BLAME
December 4, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist"
SLAVERY IN 2017 The outrage over last month's report of a slave auction that occurred in the North African nation...
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WORLD AIDS DAY
December 1, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" On this World AIDS Day 2017 there MAYBE some good news - out of Africa - for the 36.7 million...
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“IMHO”: AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION
By Ehiedu Iweriebor
DANGOTE, THE CONGO PLANT AND THE IMPERATIVE OF AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION The Dangote Group of Nigeria, one of the pre-eminent industrial conglomerates in Africa,...