Some websites that popped up on my radar recently.
See Africa Differently - Possibly a lot of terrible things – like drought, hunger and disease. That’s hardly surprising when stories of African doom and gloom are always there for us to see on the telly, and read in the papers. But we’re here to tell you that Africa’s story isn’t all sad – in fact there’s some pretty amazing news to report about the world’s second largest continent.
StopAid – Wants to start a movement that ends Aid dependency in Africa.
Read It for Me - A billion brilliant business books (or so) pave the road to the cover of Fortune. But who has time to read and remember them all? ReadItFor.me does it for you. This idea packed, weekly podcast reveals the best takeaways and instantly applicable ideas from the world’s best business brains.
Project Diaspora and Yadsocial and an African women magazine MIMI h/t Jeremy Weate
In the news:
Why Nigerians Are Investing in Ghana by Vice-President Mahama. Ghanaian Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has attributed the increasing exodus of Nigerian businessmen and other investors into the country to what he called a safe, secure, politically stable democratic environment in place in Ghana. – This Day
The Nigeria Stock market was the worst performing in January. I noticed a few bloggers working up some sweat over this, slow down guys this is just a statistical phenomena, if this had happened in the last quarter of last year it would not have made news. The NSE is lagging the international equity market by a few months. Gov. soludo says we will be alright.
