After 10 years of writing poems i have the nerves to publish! 40 pages with poems in dutch!
the name of the book is latin, carpe diem. That means 'cease the day'.
i am happy with this new born book. if you want to order one, mail me at suzanne.yakubu@gmail.com

[To all African media professionals: Please feel free to publish this Press Release]

The mission of BiD Network is to contribute to sustainable economic growth by stimulating entrepreneurship in emerging markets. BiD Network supports entrepreneurs in writing their business plans by offering them… Continue

Below is the story that I have produced for Channel 4 News and was later shown on CNN. It was morally challenging and am still struggling to overcome the experience of listeneing horrific stories.

"Kenya's beaches represent the best in tropical paradise, mutually beneficial for both the thousands of Europeans who head there and the locals who thrive from their tourism.

But Kenya's coast has a seedier face - visiting white men who pay children, some as young as three years old, for sex. In a co… Continue

Hip hop legend Warren G stops by The Timothy Hodge Show to talk about his new album, The G Files, in stores now, as well as his upcoming tour. http://budurl.com/warreng1023

On my way to the Island this morning, at Ojodu Berger, I met a scene. A bike man was struggling with two teenagers, both male. They asked him for his ticket. One sized the bike man's helmet, the other began ruffling the bike man. The bike man held on tight to his bike and demanded for their ID card. They would not produce one and they wouldn't let the bike man go. Then a bus driver who was also watching (it was at a bus stop) shouted at the boys, telling them to stop harassing the biker rider.… Continue

For the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations 2010, we like to get in contact with journalists, reporters and video & film makers in Angola.

Are you a media professional in Angola or do you know media professionals in Angola, please contact us at sebastian@basvlugt.nl

Sebastian Vlugt
Africa Business Communities

I went to the dentist yesterday and we continued our talk on my surgery. Earlier in the month, I had gone to the orthodontic session thinking I was in need of braces but the dentist there said my teeth were perfect and it was the skeletal arrangement that needed to be restructured, therefore I will need a maxilo facial surgery. I was looking at her. Here am the I thinking I had found a solution and I am told 'it is complicated.'

The dentist, God bless her sould, gave me a smile that put my hear… Continue

The mainstream media is infested with negative news about Africa and about the world in fact. Why are there no or little positive news being covered? Is it a matter of habit or is it true that ‘if it bleeds it leads’? What drives or makes news value? What do negative media images communicate about Africa and how do they effect the world’s perception of a continent, as well as the lives of Africans themselves?

Join us this Sunday October 4th on Shoot the Messenger with Henry Bonsu at 18:00 GMT.… Continue

Check out this ultra-short documentary from Angola, Angola After the War. It's the first in an online documentary project, The Kuito Project, about change and challenges in post-war Angola.



Kuito suffered extraordinary hardship during the Angolan civil war, most acutely during the nine-month siege of 1993. No… Continue

Today Africa Business Communities launches the Africa Business Women Network.

All African business women - and African women who want to start a business - are more than welcome to join!

Follow this link to visit the Africa Business Women Network:… Continue

Sex, prostitution and infidelity are what theatre-goers can expect from Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom’s latest production Foreplay. Adapted from Austrian writer Arthur Schnizler’s commended Reigen, the play - set in Pretoria’s townships – is a series of 10 inter-connected scenes on society’s moral hypocrisy when it comes to sex. Grootboom is renowned for his simple yet provocative style – he doesn’t believe in sugar-coating prickly situations but would rather present reality as it is. Often his work… Continue

We did not expect such humiliation from the world Athletics Body. It it is an insult in our
Africa tradition that a girl her age is tested and it is done without the family's permission.
Any test to check if she has a unfar advantage must get a parents permission as it is done
to test virginity.
To add insult they just publise it. Were is the sportmanship?

To the members of the African Media,

To serve our fast growing portfolio of international clients like KLM, Heineken, Starbucks, Nestlé and Nike Africa Interactive is urgently looking for Freelance African reporters to do paid assignments.

We are looking for:

African cameramen/women
African journalists
African photographers

in all African countries

If you like to sign up, please send your cv to:

bas@africanews.com… Continue

Somaliland regime is the press freedom Antagonist in this era compared to the rest of Somali regions
The Somali Journalists’ Rights Agency (SOJRA) is to day happy with to know the political viewpoint of Somaliland administration in terms of freedom of expression and press. While SOJRA… Continue

Sweet Tee Lush Radio Online had the opportunity to interview female rapper and mc Sweet Tee. Queens’s rapper Sweet Tee (born Toi Jackson) debuted with Its Tee Time in 1989. Hurby "Love Bug" Astor produced what was a strictly pop-oriented session that generated only brief response. Now sh

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SOJRA worries the Martial Law imposed in Somalia

The Somali Journalists’ Rights Agency (SOJRA) feels fear and possible attacks against the independent media from the policy, government militias and Amisom even though similar cases as happened today has done before by the former transitional government in 2007.

The Somali parliament voted for the imposition of the martial law in 19 th August after the request from the current president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. For more details go to;

http:/… Continue

Why Said Tahliil Ahmed was killed?


The late victim Mr. Said was the director of Hornafric radio in Mogadishu for close to two years and assassinated in Bakara Market on February o4 2009 while he was on his way for press conference of Al-shabaab group and he was a member of more than 7 media directors at that particular day. There is also some Al-shabaab militia men who accompanied with them.

What is the Reason behind his killing?

Soon after the election of president Sharif on 31st January 20… Continue

Somali Media and the challenges facing them

In Somalia, there are more than 40 media houses, and about 400 journalists, but unfortunately most of them work on the basis of their clan political agendas and lack the required professionalism in the today’s media world.

The media owners play vital role for poorness of the Somali media as they don’t pay their staffs. Some female reporters became sexual victim for their bosses as there is no good payment and heavy unprofessional duties or even fear… Continue

The release of ACF workers will be a hope for the two journalists who are still under abduction.

On Tuesday 11th August were released six people hostages who had been held for nine months and taken into captivity while working in Somalia for Action Contre La Faim. The group was taken captive from an airstrip in the central town of DhusMareb last November.

SOJRA would like to say this is good news in good time and SOJRA believe that the two journalists Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan could be… Continue

Mishon Ratliff Mishon Ratliff was born in Los Angeles, California on February 3, 1993. Mishon (My-Shawn) Ratliff is a young singer and fledgling songwriter who represents the next wave of pop R&B edged with hip-hop fire. The 16 y

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