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	<title>Africa Works</title>
	<link>http://africaworksgpz.com</link>
	<description>what works in the sub-Saharan, and what doesn&#039;t, by G. Pascal Zachary</description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s Web edge: slow but steady</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russell Southwood edits an incomparable, and influential, newsletter on information-technology in Africa. He chiefly rides the wave of business in mobil telephony &#8212; and the intense competition among global hardware suppliers to sell their wares to African telcos. In a revealing new article, he examines the potential for a similar boom in Internet services. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/30/africas-web-edge-slow-but-steady/</link>
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		<title>The business of Africa must be business with other Africans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business in Africa is dynamic, growing, socially relevant and historically peaking. Never in history has the sub-Saharan been home to so many diverse enterprises.
The great African independence era came during the high-water mark, globally, of state-controlled economies. In recent decades, market-oriented approaches took longer to take root in Africa than perhaps anywhere else in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/29/the-business-of-africa-must-be-business-with-other-africans/</link>
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		<title>Ghana&#8217;s oil curse: act one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hats off to the Financial Times for its superb coverage of Ghana&#8217;s handling of its off-shore oil resources, and the growing concern that neither the development of this oil, nor the profits produced by it will be well managed and well used.
These are early days for Ghana and its off-shore oil, but this week&#8217;s news [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/21/ghanas-oil-curse-act-one/</link>
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		<title>With U.S. help, Afghanistan can become another Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria, the nation, is not usually held out as a model of anything, no less of a Valhalla for builders of effective just nation-states. Not so for three authors of an article in Foreign Affairs magazine, “Defining Success in Afghanistan.” For Stephen Biddle, Fotini Christia and Alexander Their, the U.S. can’t reaslistically build a “strong, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/20/with-u-s-help-afghanistan-can-become-another-nigeria/</link>
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		<title>When a passport for &#8220;one Africa&#8221; isn&#8217;t nearly enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The general problem in African politics is the weak capacity of citizens to realize citizenship rights within their own country. While it is bad, for instance, that immigrant Nubians must pay bribes to obtain birth certificates and passports in Kenya, some native-born Kenyans must pay these same bribes to achieve these same ends. The denial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/19/why-one-passport-for-one-africa-isnt-nearly-enough/</link>
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		<title>Why Diamonds Can&#8217;t Be Mugabe&#8217;s Best Friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe, the aged head of what passes for Zimbabwe&#8217;s government, is sounding like a girl on the verge of a quickie marriage: diamonds are now his best friend, or at least best hope of clinging to power in Harare, one of Africa&#8217;s once&#8211;great capitals. I have neither been to Zimbabwe, nor met Mugabe; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/15/why-diamonds-cant-be-mugabes-best-friend/</link>
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		<title>Calling Naomi Campbell: When prosecutors get desperate, bring on the supermodels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think the international criminal case against Charles Taylor is a slam dunk, think again. The prosecutors in the International Criminal Court &#8212; in Holland&#8217;s Hague &#8212; apparently are in such desperate straits that they need to call on the assistance of the notoriously generous super-model Naomi Campbell.
No kidding. Campbell&#8217;s legal street-smarts seems essential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/13/calling-naomi-campbell-when-prosecutors-get-desperate-bring-on-the-supermodels/</link>
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		<title>Fela is not Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Femi Kuti is visiting Philadelphia, fronting his own band, and my wife, who like Femi hails from Nigeria, tells me that no one &#8212; no one! &#8212; other than Femi should get to perform Fela&#8217;s music in public.
Fela is of course Nigeria&#8217;s most famous song writer and entertainer, now deceased since 1997. Femi is his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/12/fela-is-not-open-source/</link>
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		<title>Blowback in Uganda?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday’s sickening bombings in Kampala may be the actions of Somalia’s al-Shabaab group, which claimed responsibility on Monday. The claim is more than plausible. Uganda has been a strong supporter of the American military role in Somalia and has even provided a contingent of troops to the American-led effort &#8212; and training of pro-US Somali [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/07/12/blowback-in-uganda/</link>
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		<title>Congo&#8217;s Unhappy Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I’ve learned about Africa, in ten years of visits to the region, study and reflection, is that if something is broken in Africa, somebody wants it broken. And possibly, or even probably, that somebody benefits from it being broken (or breaking it if it isn’t yet broken).
This single insight into how Africa works, however [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2010/06/30/congos-unhappy-birthday/</link>
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