Kwanzaa, a time to foster pride in African culture
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HACKENSACK, NJ -- For Marlene Ware, a teacher at Teaneck High School, Kwanzaa is an opportunity to demystify Africa. &quot;A lot of African-Americans to this day really don&#39;t acknowledge the role that Africa has in the world,&quot; Ware said.
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MULANDA, Uganda  - Kenya's election months were good times for teenage budding musician Robert Kinganga -- he was given a fistful of money, a microphone and a big crowd to entertain.
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HIV/AIDS is the greatest health crisis of our time. Its defeat requires the cooperation of the entire global community. On World AIDS Day, people around the
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Mamadou Faye is a goat herder in Senegal.  We've never met, probably never will.  For the last year I've watched each month for an update on his business.  Each month I waited for news on how his venture progressed. This business partnership wasn't forged in the humid lowlands of Senegal, I did it from my laptop, in my own home.  We met through Kiva.   With $25, a paypal account, and a desire to do some good Kiva connected me to this man in Senegal and in doing so revealed the power of small.
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In Kenya, elections mean money. From  cash to T-shirts to new roads, and the lucrative business of  helping aspirants by fair means or foul, Christmas has come  early in the east African nation.
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At Peter SellarsÂs New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, a cross-pollination of human and artistic cultures has yielded wonderful results.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- On this day, the first sunny day in a while, Omer Waka decided to stake it all on bamboo wall calendars.
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Performances capture the spirit of South Africa 10 years after apartheid's end.
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A hip-hop style helps bring a generation gap into full view.
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Comment is free: Ian Buruma: Repressive regimes are playing on our colonial guilt, but we must stand up for those values to which oppressed people aspire
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President Thabo Mbeki has pledged full government support for young women engaged in nation building. The president was addressing the Young South African Women in Dialogue congress in Saldanha today.
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LAST week 600 youths who pledged to abstain from sex till marriage gathered in Kampala for a convention. This is a good development because it popularises one of the key pillars in fighting AIDS.
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There is no disputed that Tanzania's first President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's policy of promoting Kiswahili as a national language helped a lot in binding countrymen together and highly promoted nationalism ...
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LAKE SIBAYA, South Africa  - Bongi Nkosi stands  proudly by her family house gushing over an expansion made  possible by politics and pavement.
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A new awareness of promoting Âan image of joy and wellness.Â
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African-Americans voiced pride and amazement over Senator Barack Obamaâs victory in Iowa, with some seeing the result as a signal moment in race relations.
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Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society