Nigeria&#39;s Adichie hot favorite for Orange prize
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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi  Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the  Orange Prize, a major literary award for fiction in English  written by women.
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Accra - Ghana&#39;s leader, John Kufuor, is expected to win a second and final four-year term when voters in the world&#39;s second-biggest cocoa grower choose their leader in a presidential election on Tuesday.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is the top candidate in votes for the executive body of South Africa's governing ANC.
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Nigeria's ruling party presidential candidate, Umaru Yar'Adua, says he is well enough to run in April's polls.
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South Africa dominated the list of nominations for the International Rugby Board&#39;s annual awards Wednesday, with Schalk Burger and Marius Joubert and coach Jake White up for prizes.
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Luke Donald has expressed his delight at being named as one of captain Bernhard Langer&#39;s wildcards for the European Ryder Cup team.
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Preliminary results of Ghana&#39;s presidential elections showed that President John Kufuor of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was leading against his main challenger John Atta Mills.
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Delegates of Nigeria's ruling party gather in Abuja to pick a candidate to stand in next year's presidential poll.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed a special adviser on the volatile oil-rich Niger delta, amid a spate of kidnappings of foreign oil workers in the region.
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Nigeria's ruling party presidential candidate, Umaru Yar'Adua, tells the BBC he is well enough to run in April's polls.
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In Ghana, no one is shy about sharing opinions on the Black Starsâ chances in the African Cup of Nations.
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A distinctly African setting framed the award of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to the first woman from that continent to receive the prestigious honor.
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Nigeria wants OPEC to raise its price band to be more in line with market reality, the country's top oil official, Edmund Daukoro, said following similar calls by Libya and the United Arab Emirates.
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Kumasi market in Ghana is a bustling, vibrant place, and the African Cup of Nations has made it even more so with everyone making the most of match day
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Ukraine&#39;s &quot;orange opposition&quot; was gearing up to contest the result of a bitterly fought presidential election after officials announced
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The African Cup of Nations being staged Jan. 20-Feb. 10 in Ghana, will whisk away some of the top players in the English Premier League and other leagues for a month or more.
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Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy is the favourite to win the Whitbread Prize with her novel Small Island.