http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/87/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-10T19:06:18+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091110_digital_dumping_the_global_e-cycling_scam/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091110_digital_dumping_the_global_e-cycling_scam/ africa, basel action network, computer, digital dumping, e-recycling, e-waste, electronics, landfill, nigeria, toxic waste,

The port of Lagos in Nigeria receives about 400,000 used computers every month, out of which only one in four is useful. The rest end up in landfills, garbage dumps and, in a curious twist, as resources for scammers.

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]]> 2009-11-10T19:06:18+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090827_nollywood_rising/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090827_nollywood_rising/ africa, bollywood, cinema, film industry, hollywood, kenneth nnebue, nigeria, nollywood,

The Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood (a play on Hollywood in the manner of Bollywood), has grown from an accidental discovery into a mega-industry of over 2,000 titles and $200M annually.

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]]> 2009-08-27T09:08:02+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090702_designer_vaginas_is_female_circumcision_coming_out_of_the_closet/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090702_designer_vaginas_is_female_circumcision_coming_out_of_the_closet/ africa, circumcision, dr. 90210, health, media, money, olujobi, plastic surgery, women,

As a circumcised and sexually fulfilled African woman who has been lectured for years by Western NGOs about the moral implications of my genitalia, you can imagine my surprise learning about the the wind of labiaplasties and genital rejuvenations currently sweeping across Europe and America.

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]]> 2009-07-02T11:10:34+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090522_austrian_artist_becomes_nigerian_ancestor/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090522_austrian_artist_becomes_nigerian_ancestor/ africa, ancestor, austria, christianity, gbemisola olujobi, islam, nigeria, oshogbo, osun, river goddess, suzanne wenger, yoruba,

How did an Austrian girl who was born into a Christian family end up as high priestess of a Yoruba goddess in Nigeria? Suzanne Wenger’s life demonstrates that people are just people after all, that is, when they put aside race, values, beliefs and the other things that divide us.

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]]> 2009-05-22T07:26:19+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090410_who_is_mogae/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090410_who_is_mogae/ africa, aids, botswana, chissano, gbemisola olujobi, ghana, kikwete, kufuor, mogae, mozambique, mugabe, olujobi, swaziland, tanzania,

Almost everyone in the United States or indeed anywhere else in the world knows about Zimbabwe’s sit-tight president, Robert Mugabe. But who is Mogae? Who is Chissano? Who is Kikwete? And who is Kufuor? Sadly, very few people outside Africa recognize these names.

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]]> 2009-04-10T21:19:22+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090227_george_w_bush_a_friend_to_africa/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090227_george_w_bush_a_friend_to_africa/ africa, aids, barack obama, education, gbemisola olujobi, george w. bush, health care, hiv, olujobi, pepfar, rwanda, south africa,

Linda, a 24-year-old sex worker in Kigali, Rwanda, didn’t want to be tested for HIV because she feared she would find she would soon die. Her fear was not unfounded. Being aware of one’s HIV-positive status was a first step toward dying of AIDS in Rwanda, as in most parts of Africa. Anti-retroviral drugs were expensive and hard to come by. But that was before President Bush’s PEPFAR.

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]]> 2009-02-28T01:50:34+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081226_what_will_brother_barack_do_for_africa/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081226_what_will_brother_barack_do_for_africa/ africa, aids, barack obama, brother barack, darfur, desmond tutu, gbemisola olujobi, kenya, nelson mandela, nigeria, olujobi, south africa,

As the dust settles from the feverish dances that greeted Barack Obama’s victory in the American elections, Africans wonder what “our son and brother” will be able to do for Africa in the face of daunting challenges in the United States and other parts of the world.

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]]> 2008-12-27T03:22:45+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080724_aids_and_the_myth_of_the_oversexed_negro/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080724_aids_and_the_myth_of_the_oversexed_negro/ africa, health, media, olujobi, poverty, race, sex, study, women,

Why do so many in the global health establishment insist on viewing the AIDS crisis in Africa through the lens of a 19th century stereotype?

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]]> 2008-07-24T10:31:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071126_how_not_to_help_africans/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071126_how_not_to_help_africans/ abeche, chad, darfur, france, journalist, orphan, refugees, sarkozy, sudan, unicef, zoe's ark,

The French charity group L’Arche de Zoé (Zoë‘s Ark) took 103 Chadian children from their homes with promises of sweets and a trip to the city of Abeche. But the group actually planned to fly the children to France on a 220-seater plane from Abeche airport in Eastern Chad, passing them off as “Sudanese orphans from Darfur” who needed urgent medical care and foster homes. The fiasco sheds new light on the activities of Western “angels of mercy” in Africa.

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]]> 2007-11-27T06:19:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070607_nigeria_new_government_or_puppet_succession/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070607_nigeria_new_government_or_puppet_succession/ africa, corruption, election, inec, nigeria, pdp, politics, yar'adua,

In some ways, the ascension of Nigeria’s new President Umaru Yar’Adua to his country’s top post can be seen in a hopeful light, however his ties to his predecessor may make him more of a representative for the old guard than a fresh new face in Nigerian politics.

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