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News from Africa

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  Africa launches the new Pan-African University

  23-12-2011

  The African Union has launched the new Pan-African University project, which will have sites in five African countries: Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya and South Africa.

• Namibia: Conference to Discuss Open Educational Resources

  13-10-2011

  NOLNet, in collaboration with the British Council, UNESCO and the Namibia Open and Distance Learning (ODL), is organizing a conference on Open and Distance Learning Institutions in Windhoek on 18 and 19 October 2011.

  
  

  The Conference aims at repositioning ODL as a discipline that can continue to play an important role in the development of societies across the globe and to assist in meeting the Education for All goals.
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  GUBA awards: Celebrating Ghanaian achievements

  26-09-2011

  What began as an individual idea two years ago has transmuted into one of the awards that has caught the attention of the movers and shakers. The Ghana UK Based Achievement Awards highlight excellence in an individual or institution doing business in Ghana or for the Ghanaian community in the United Kingdom.
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  Manou Gallo: bassiste, chanteuse, Africaine du monde

  13-07-2011

  Quelle femme africaine sait jouer la basse comme Manou Gallo? Franchement, pour arriver à lui trouver une interlocutrice à son niveau, il faudrait faire le tour complet du continent africain, sans compter toutes ces scènes musicales liées de loin ou de près à sa diaspora. Jusqu’à nouvel ordre, donc…
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  Dakar Fashion Week : la mode africaine inspire le monde

  08-07-2011

  Du 6 au 9 juillet avait lieu la Dakar Fashion Week, qui présentait 13 stylistes venus majoritairement d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Un évènement tremplin pour ces créateurs, alors que la mode africaine est justement... à la mode.