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		<title>Music/Activism:  &#8220;I am about connecting people around the world&#8221; Nneka on CNN</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/09/05/connecting-people-world-nneka-cnn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another inspiring video on CNN about talented Nigerian singer/song writer, Nneka. Here she talks about injustice in Nigeria/on the continent and why she has decided to act as a voice for the people. Heartbeat &#38; Africans are featured.]]></description>
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		<title>Segun Aganga: Nigerian economy &#8216;to grow by 10%&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria&#8217;s economy will hit double-digit growth by the end of 2011 or early 2012, the country&#8217;s finance minister has told the BBC. Olusegun Aganga&#8217;s prediction comes after the Nigerian economy grew by more than 7% in the first half of this year. Mr Aganga said the government&#8217;s ambitious programme to build new infrastructure and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech: Kenya prepares the way for a technology-based future #iHub #IdeasAfrica</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/22/tech-kenya-prepares-technologybased-future-ihub-ideasafrica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BBC) &#8211; Kenya has great ambitions to establish itself as a tech-hub for Africa. But can it really keep up the pace of innovation? The BBC&#8217;s Egon Cossou visited iHub, Nairobi&#8217;s innovation hub. This functions as an incubator, bringing together creatives, developers and investors. He spoke to Jessica Colaco, manager of iHub, and Sam Gichuru [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[COMMENTARY]: &#8220;Urban Africa: 53 Countries, 10 Years- David Adjaye’s photographic journey&#8221; by Itohan Barlow</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/20/urban-africa-53-countries-10-years-david-adjayes-photographic-journey-itohan-barlow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/20/urban-africa-53-countries-10-years-david-adjayes-photographic-journey-itohan-barlow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Itohan Barlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photo exhibit, not about photography but about architecture and urban patterns&#8230; Tanzanian-born, London-based, Award-winning architect David Adjaye who is at the forefront of his generation in architecture has had an exhibition  at the London Design Museum for the last 5 months titled “Urban Africa”. The photo exhibit is drawing to an end on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlight on the Solving Africa Project</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/18/spotlight-solving-africa-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/18/spotlight-solving-africa-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Ehidiamen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since January 2009, Junior Kanu has visited about seven African cities- Dakar (Senegal), Accra (Ghana), Lagos (Nigeria), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Tunis (Tunisia), Nairobi (Kenya), and Johannesburg (South Africa)- listening to young Africans&#8217; dreams about what’s right or wrong with the continent and their role in its development. The final outcome will be a book tentatively titled Solving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sowambe, a pan-african social media brand</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/15/sowambe-panafrican-social-media-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/15/sowambe-panafrican-social-media-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Loy Okezie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Media seems to be powering just about everything on the web. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, RSS, Mashups, etc are the engines that run things on the web. They seem to be telling us: “No matter what you do, you’ll need us”. Yeah, the conversation on today’s web is different. It is social. It is vibrant. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[COMMENTARY] &#8211; &#8220;Vision 2020: Counting the costs&#8221; by Oluseun Onigbinde</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/11/commentary-vision-2020-counting-cost-oluseun-onigbinde/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/11/commentary-vision-2020-counting-cost-oluseun-onigbinde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oluseun Onigbinde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Nigeria take the leap to join the global giants in 2020? This question disturbs my spirit whenever I see our government gathering up voluminous reports and setting up eleven man committee and multiple events to herald a new vision. It‘s never wrong to dream, set goals, generate a strategy or recreate a vision that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[VIDEO/COMMENTARY]:&#8221;African countries should &#8216;come together&#8217; like the European Union&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/09/videocommentaryafrican-countries-come-together-european-union/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/09/videocommentaryafrican-countries-come-together-european-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting feature on CNN where the Founder of HCL Infosystems, Ajai Chowdhry talks about the need for continental integration and the overaching importance of broadband over infrastructural facilities such as roads on the continent. Though Chowdury is not of African descent, CP-Africa is all for celebrating progressive thinking and ideas which can either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CP-Africa catches up with the C.E.O. of Appfrica Labs, Jon Gosier. #Apps 4 Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/05/cpafrica-catches-ceo-appfrica-labs-jon-gosier-discuss-apps-4-africa-competition-technology-appfrica-labs-jon-gosier-apps-4-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/05/cpafrica-catches-ceo-appfrica-labs-jon-gosier-discuss-apps-4-africa-competition-technology-appfrica-labs-jon-gosier-apps-4-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nmachi Jidenma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon Gosier. We discuss the Apps 4 Africa Competition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CP-Africa) &#8211; CP-Africa.com had earlier announced the Apps 4 Africa competition, a competition sponsored by Ihub, AppAfrica, SODNET and the U.S. State Department to help support the creative energies of East African apps developers. The contest comes at a critical moment given the current buzz and press the continent is getting from the impact of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[COMMENTARY]: &#8220;Nigeria: To zone or not to zone?&#8221; by Atom Lim</title>
		<link>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/01/commentary-nigeriamust-zone-atom-lim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/08/01/commentary-nigeriamust-zone-atom-lim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Atom Lim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria is a complex state and simple problems here often require complex and often contradictory solutions. For instance, we deal with violence perpetrated by members of the Boko Haram sect by rounding up hundreds of them and shooting them in cold blood and at the same time we pay  Niger Delta militants to desist from [...]]]></description>
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