Mae Azango was in Toronto recently to receive an award for courageous reporting from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. Azango’s undercover expose of female circumcision in her home country of Liberia has resulted in death threats and forced her into hiding and her nine year old daughter into the care of relatives
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Liberian Journalist Receives the International Press Freedom Award
on January 2nd, 2013
THE UN-COMFORT ZONE -The Examined Life
on December 24th, 2009
What motivated us? Knowledge. We made the same discovery that led Sir Francis Bacon to make his famous quote in 1597, “Knowledge is power.” We were empowered by what we had learned, and it gave us the confidence to take a risk we would never have taken before.
Canada Announces New Support To The African Development Bank
on September 25th, 2009
CANADA DELIVERS ON ITS COMMITMENT TO STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PITTSBURGH – Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that Canada will provide the African Development Bank more lending room to respond to the pressures of the global economic crisis. This action to temporarily triple callable capital for the Bank reinforces Canada’s London G20 commitment to
Bumps, but Africa’s democracy rises
Nowhere in Africa has democracy seen much trial but yet moving on confidently than in continental giant Nigeria, where the fever of long-running military juntas is gradually giving way to vigorous democratic ascent,