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Published 10/14/2011 - 9:23 p.m. GMT
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Author Chinua Achebe
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Who are the most influential icons in contemporary
African pop culture?
In September, I put out a request for nominations for a list of the 40 most powerful celebrities in contemporary Africa. Within three weeks, over 7,500 entries flooded in. This is the result of your choices.
In September, I put out a request for nominations for a list of the 40 most powerful celebrities in contemporary Africa. Within three weeks, over 7,500 entries flooded in. This is the result of your choices.
Published 06/15/2011 - 6:21 a.m. GMT
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An Oil worker walks past by the flame of the gasflare in the oil rich region of Niger delta
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Saro Nkesi still finds it
difficult to talk about the
years before he finally left
Nigeria.
“During the period of 1993 to 1995, I was always staying in the bush and dashed home to eat and went back to the bush again,” he said. “Sometimes I would stay with other friends who were not from Ogoni. It was a terrible time in my life.”
“During the period of 1993 to 1995, I was always staying in the bush and dashed home to eat and went back to the bush again,” he said. “Sometimes I would stay with other friends who were not from Ogoni. It was a terrible time in my life.”
Published 05/13/2011 - 4:21 p.m. GMT
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New America Media's Shirin
Sadeghi interviews journalist
Janny Scott about her new
biography, A Singular Woman,
the untold story of Stanley
Ann Dunham, the mother of
President Barack Obama.
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