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• March 05, 2010
• 20:48

  Aschobi - African fashion house

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S5FvMWYTa-I/AAAAAAAAAZs/3Urg_hWHGhM/s1600-h/Aschobi.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 71px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S5FvMWYTa-I/AAAAAAAAAZs/3Urg_hWHGhM/s400/Aschobi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445255682424269794" border="0" //aa href="http://www.aschobi.com/index.php"br /br /Aschobi/a is a global fashion brand with an African essence. Aschobi exists in the space where luxury meets classic feminine elegance together with an aesthetic that enhances the natural curves of a modern woman. The Aschobi woman is a true global citizen – intelligent, well travelled, socially conscious, and fun. Clad in Aschobi she reflects the opulence and freedom of her modern lifestyle.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5661865830601769459?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 20:42

  Sustainable Harvest - specialty coffee importers

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"img style="width: 277px; height: 159px;" alt="http://www.ingredientsfilm.com/img/logo_sustainable_harvest_lg.png" src="http://www.ingredientsfilm.com/img/logo_sustainable_harvest_lg.png" /br /div style="text-align: left;"From site:br /br /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotepa href="http://sustainableharvest.com/"Sustainable Harvest/a is headquartered in the Natural Capital Center in Portland, Oregon, USA. The company has supply-side divisions in Mexico, Peru, and Tanzania with on-the-ground staff to support and train coffee producers./p pSustainable Harvest has the diversity of a true global company. Two-thirds of the staffspan work outside of the United States. The company has 24 employees from 10 different nationalities. More than 80% of the staff are fluent in two or more languages. Nine staff members are Q Grader cuppers, certified by the Coffee Quality Institute./span/p/blockquote/div/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2493584915079872328?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 20:36

  Ingenious Africa - tv series that profiles African ingenuity

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: justify;"span13 x 1/2 hour series shot across the continent of Ingenious Africa, focuses on the African continents amazing ability to solve problems, overcome obstacles, create new technologies, draw on some ancient wisdom as well as lead the world in fields like astronomy and conservation.br /br //spandiv style="text-align: center;"spanobject height="285" width="440"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sWhPQON6eUwamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x402061amp;color2=0x9461ca"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sWhPQON6eUwamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x402061amp;color2=0x9461ca" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="285" width="440"/embed/object/spanbr /span/span/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-62275972024086146?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 20:25

  Myweku - All Things African

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myweku.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 91px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S5Fq6KEGfaI/AAAAAAAAAZc/SumC6BEPWEI/s400/Myweku.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445250971834154402" border="0" //aa href="http://www.myweku.com/"br /From Site:/abr /blockquoteMy Weku was borne out of a strong desire to:br /• Unearth positive news, talent and inspirational figures across Africa.br /• Provide a hub for discussing and celebrating “All Things African….” pMy Weku is a première online resource for the review, analysis and promotion of African Culture in its entirety./p/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-6698243804493435647?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• February 18, 2010
• 21:21

  Faso Foods - Ivory Coast consumer foods company

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S32wkIpcCUI/AAAAAAAAAZU/ZdRzCEOQO7s/s1600-h/faso.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 137px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S32wkIpcCUI/AAAAAAAAAZU/ZdRzCEOQO7s/s400/faso.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439698059776493890" border="0" //aa href="http://fasofoods.com/index.html"From site:/abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteWe are importers of high quality and wholesome products that are certified organic and fair trade, providing a sustainable and economic stimulus to farmers and food producers in Africa and around the world. Faso Foods represents a range of natural and delicious grains, nuts, teas and produce that American consumers are sure to love. /blockquotebr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5316681660989648652?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:17

  AFAS International Group - Agribusiness conglomerate Nigeria

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S32u8tXC7BI/AAAAAAAAAZM/2ysJPP8IS4M/s1600-h/AFAS.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 53px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S32u8tXC7BI/AAAAAAAAAZM/2ysJPP8IS4M/s400/AFAS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439696282925067282" border="0" //aFrom site:br /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotepOur mission is to produce fish and livestock feeds, and agricultural products that meet international quality standards. This will be an ongoing economy aligned initiative which will result in a decrease in poverty for beneficiaries conducting business with the company and an increase in economic productivity and other secondary entrepreneurial opportunities./p We aim to produce top quality feed products, hire, train and retain personnel with required knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to set in motion the growth of the agricultural economy of Nigeria and ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States) through fish and livestock feed manufacturing. This will be accomplished through the following objectives:/blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8910829545940773276?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:10

  Trigen Healthcare

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S32tcuyVZ-I/AAAAAAAAAZE/LKuuG3mg4c0/s1600-h/blogshot1.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 91px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/S32tcuyVZ-I/AAAAAAAAAZE/LKuuG3mg4c0/s400/blogshot1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439694634040518626" border="0" //aa href="http://www.trigenhealth.com/index.php"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.trigenhealth.com/index.php"Trigen Healthcare/a is committed to improving healthcare outcomes in resource-poor countries by providing continuing medical education, healthcare skills training and consultative services to healthcare professionals, medical facility managers and health policy leaders.br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-172116623753182112?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 20:59

  EGG-Energy - affordable power

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"img style="width: 394px; height: 104px;" alt="http://egg-energy.com/blog/wp-content/themes/liasorangec/images/egg-header.jpg" src="http://egg-energy.com/blog/wp-content/themes/liasorangec/images/egg-header.jpg" /br /div style="text-align: justify;"br /About a href="http://egg-energy.com/blog/"EGG-Energybr //abr /Since June 2008, a multi-disciplinary team from MIT and Harvard has been working on an innovative solution to bring affordable power to communities in the developing world. Their goal is to bridge the power distribution gap that keeps 1.6 billion people worldwide in the dark.br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5637091906816631866?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 20:42

  The Energy Center, KNUST - Center of excellence for Africa energy research

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://energycenter.knust.edu.gh/pages/"img style="width: 379px; height: 52px;" alt="http://energycenter.knust.edu.gh/images/toplogo.png" src="http://energycenter.knust.edu.gh/images/toplogo.png" /br //a/diva href="http://energycenter.knust.edu.gh/pages/"br /The Energy Center at KNUST/a, is an African energy research center devoted to sustainable energy sources. Their research in energy is pivotal to finding a sustainable long-term solution to the world-wide energy crisis.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1604978265505441844?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• January 20, 2010
• 0:33

  Chembe Urban Security Competition 2010 - East Africa

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div class="left"span style="display: block; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.betavine.net/socialx-web/main/challenge/id/ff80808125920628012597efea8c013c"img src="http://www.betavine.net/bvcms/images/partners/chembe_logo_150x150.jpg" //abr /br //spandiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.chembe.com/"Chembe Ventures/a is an Irish owned company which provides seed capital to mobile application developers, social media start-ups and web ventures in East and Southern Africa. We’re sponsoring this competition to encourage innovative mobile solutions to assist residents in urban communities address a specific or general security problem. One prize of stronguUS $5,000/u/strong will be awarded to the winning entry. On top of that, we’re offering a potential further US $5,000 or more of investment and pilot testing capital to the winning team or individual.br //diva href="http://www.betavine.net/socialx-web/main/challenge/id/ff80808125920628012597efea8c013c"br /strongEntry Criteria:/strong/abr /ulbr /liEntrants must be registered as a developer in the Betavine community/liliEntries need to be written in English/liliEntries must be designed for deployment in one of the following countries: Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa or Tanzania. /liliThis challenge is all about helping residents living in low-income, densely populated urban areas improve their personal security. /libr /Entries must provide solutions under one or more of the following headings:br /br /liearly warning notifications of criminal activity, violence or other security threats/liliassistance for families, communities at risk of crime/lilireducing crime, preventing the spread of violence/lililocation, identification and assistance of victims of violence or crime/li/ulbr /br / /divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8913495595682569437?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 0:27

  LimbeLabs - Cameroon startup incubator for startups

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div id="logo"div style="text-align: center;" /divh1 style="text-align: center;" a href="http://limbelabs.com/ventures/" title="A Cameroonian startup incubator, coworking space amp; more" /a/h1div id="logo"div style="text-align: center;" /divdiv style="text-align: center;" a href="Limbe%20Labs%20Ventures" title="A Cameroonian startup incubator, coworking space amp; more" img src="http://limbelabs.com/ventures/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/limbelabs_fc-w-ventures1.png" style="margin-top: 0px;" alt="Limbe Labs Ventures" / /a/divh1 /h1 /diva href="http://limbelabs.com/ventures/"From site:/abr /br /blockquote/blockquoteblockquoteLimbe Labs is a unique community / collaboration space in Cameroon for startups, freelancers, designers, entrepreneurs (esp. internet entrepreneurs) and independent thinkers. Limbe Labs provides not only a great space to work but also opportunities to interact with other like-minded individuals. br //blockquotebr / /divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1686860869300216963?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 0:23

  African Capital Alliance - Private Equity fund manager West Africa

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"br /a href="http://www.aca-web.com/index.htm"img alt="http://www.aca-web.com/images/logo.jpg" src="http://www.aca-web.com/images/logo.jpg" /img style="width: 310px; height: 22px;" alt="http://www.aca-web.com/images/logoo.jpg" src="http://www.aca-web.com/images/logoo.jpg" /br //a/diva href="http://www.aca-web.com/index.htm"br /From Site:br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotepAfrican Capital Alliance (ACA) is a leading private equity firm focused on Nigeria and West Africa. ACA was founded in 1997 with a mission to build Africa’s premier private equity investment firm by mobilizing capital, technology and management resources from local and international sources to unlock Africa’s private sector potential. Through our funds, we strive to improve the economic landscape of Nigeria and Africa while earning superior returns for our investors based on management excellence through professionalism and unquestionable integrity. /p/blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-6124451376966697014?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 0:18

  Grand Challenges: Point-of-Care Diagnostics Grant Opportunity

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div webpartid="90543e13-1133-4fdb-ad0c-f3fe48192c60" haspers="false" id="WebPartWPQ2" width="100%" class="ms-WPBody" allowdelete="false" style="text-align: justify;"div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.grandchallenges.org/diagnostics/Pages/Introduction.aspx"img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 234px; height: 156px;" class="gc_ImgPosition" src="http://www.grandchallenges.org/diagnostics/PublishingImages/DxRFP_Image.jpg" border="0" /br //a/divpa href="http://www.grandchallenges.org/diagnostics/Pages/Introduction.aspx"The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative/a is seeking innovative ideas for diagnostics in the developing world. $30 million in funding is available for Phase I of a new grant program to create technologies and components that can be used to assess multiple conditions and pathogens at the point-of-care in a variety of settings. /p pstrongLetters of inquiry will be accepted December 1, 2009 through February 16, 2010/strong./p pSpecifically, we seek to create a new class of point-of-care (POC) diagnostics that will be easy to use, low cost and otherwise appropriate so that these new tools achieve significant impact and rapid uptake in resource-poor settings. /p/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-638688857683399590?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 0:11

  Mobile Web East Africa - Feb 3,4 Nairobi, Kenya

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.mobileeastafrica.com/"img style="width: 367px; height: 67px;" alt="http://www.mobileeastafrica.com/resources/Web_Banners/MEA-900x125.jpg" src="http://www.mobileeastafrica.com/resources/Web_Banners/MEA-900x125.jpg" /br /br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"stronga href="http://www.mobileeastafrica.com/"Conference on African mobile technology/abr /br /Mobile Web East Africa is the next in a series of progressive and innovative events to focus on one of the most important technological advances of the 21st century/strong.br /br /strong style="font-weight: normal;"By utilising the exceptionally interactive roundtable format, the 2 day conference promises to be one of the leading events of 2010, where the future development of the mobile internet, mobile applications and mobile ecosystem in the region will be discussed and mapped./strongbr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2115018428697589754?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• December 18, 2009
• 19:56

  Country Home - African consumer foods company

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.country-homefoodproducts.com/"img src="http://www.country-homefoodproducts.com/images/logo.jpg" //a/divdiv style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.country-homefoodproducts.com/"br //a/divdiv style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.country-homefoodproducts.com/"img src="http://www.country-homefoodproducts.com/images/IMGP2664.jpg" //a/divdiv style="text-align: center;"br //divdiv style="text-align: left;"a href="http://www.country-homefoodproducts.com/"From Site:/a/divdiv style="text-align: left;"blockquote/blockquotediv style="text-align: left;"/divblockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"Country-Home Food Products is a World Bank assisted Project located at Koforidua, the Capital of Eastern Region of Ghana. The company which is a privately wholly-owned Ghanaian limited Liability Company incorporated on 18th June 1981 to go into the processing and canning of vegetables, fruits, and other related products. The company’s first batch of products went on sales display at the Kingsway Stores in Accra./div/blockquotediv style="text-align: left;"/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2928733509402268252?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 19:05

  Kasahorow - Propagating technical standards for African languages

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://kasahorow.com/"img src="http://kasahorow.com/sites/all/themes/kwtheme/logo.png" alt="kasahorow" //a/divdiv style="text-align: center;"a href="http://kasahorow.com/"br //a/divdiv style="text-align: left;"a href="http://kasahorow.com/"About Kasahorow/a/divdiv style="text-align: left;"br //divdiv style="text-align: justify;"/divblockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"Kasahorow is a project spearheaded by a a href="http://web.suuch.com/"Suuch Solutions/a (a Ghanaian company) to bring Africa’s languages alive. Kasahorow brings together editors and contributors from all over Africa to help create dictionaries for African languages./divdiv style="text-align: justify;"br //divdiv style="text-align: center;"div style="text-align: justify;"Kasahorow is a commercial project but it has several of its end products being open source. Kasahorow also brings African languages into the mainstream by releasing add ons and plugins for open source software and technologies./div/div/blockquotediv style="text-align: center;"div style="text-align: justify;"/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3269404586290154919?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• December 11, 2009
• 18:44

  Broadstreet Lagos - web based research portal on Nigerian securities

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://broadstreetlagos.com/index.php"img src="http://broadstreetlagos.com/images/logo.gif" border="0" //aa href="http://broadstreetlagos.com/index.php"br /br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://broadstreetlagos.com/index.php"span style="font-weight: bold;"BroadstreetLagos/span/abr /blockquoteFrom site:br /br /strongBroadStreetLagos.Com –/strong is APL’s web based research portal on Nigerian securities. It is a consolidation of publicly available information on all tradable asset classes; equities, fixed income and unit trusts. The portal allows users who register, access to all aspects of the site for free for a limited period. Features on the site are a screening function which allows users to search for securities that meet their selected investment criteria. Portfolio creation and tracking feature is also available. Summary profiles and historical financial and price information is available on over 100 equities, 59 FGN Bonds and 15 unit trusts.br //blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4201340812432044366?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 18:35

  Privaty Equity fund manager in in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://manocap.com/"img src="http://manocap.com/images/manocap_logo.gif" alt="ManoCap - Investing for Growth" border="0" height="86" width="205" //abr //divAbout ManCapbr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotea href="http://manocap.com/"ManoCap/a is a private equity fund manager that operates in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana. We invest in the SME space, looking at expansions, MBOs, pre-IPO and venture capital transactions that have a clear exit. Our investments are in the $500,000 to $5,000,000 range in equity or quasi-equity instruments. We may take a controlling or minority stake depending on the particular needs of the business shareholders and managers./blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5661108511347041788?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• November 18, 2009
• 7:46

  Absolute furnishing limited - African furniture company

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.absolutefurnishings.net/index.html"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 114px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SwOmnpF5QPI/AAAAAAAAAY0/uoAJzFHRtUc/s400/Absolute+furnishings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405347177750413554" border="0" //abr /From Sitea href="http://www.absolutefurnishings.net/index.html"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotea href="http://www.absolutefurnishings.net/index.html"Absolute Furnishings Limited/a manufactures a wide range of high quality hotel, office, school; and home furniture as well as home accessories. We have furnished some of the finest homes, hotels and offices in the country. br /br /Our beautiful world class furniture is produced in wood, wrought iron, rattan, cane, a mixture of rattan or cane with wrought iron and rattan with wood, massive wood and carved massive wood. All these are expertly crafted and finished in exotic, classic and contemporary designs making our range of furniture the ultimate for both indoors and outdoors.br //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-612430794417387696?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 0:26

  Haute - African fashion magazine

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.fashionafrica.com/"img alt="http://www.fashionafrica.com/wp-content/themes/haute/images/logo.jpg" src="http://www.fashionafrica.com/wp-content/themes/haute/images/logo.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.fashionafrica.com/"HauTe/a is a 100+ page fashion magazine. It features the works of African designers all around the world, exhibiting a taste for the cultural tempered with an appreciation of the varied degrees of influence by the west in today's fashion.br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2433230743808794066?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 0:20

  Play Made energy - renewable electricity to schools

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.playmadeenergy.com/index.html"img alt="http://www.playmadeenergy.com/images/logo.jpg" src="http://www.playmadeenergy.com/images/logo.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"About a href="http://www.playmadeenergy.com/index.html"PlayMade Energy/abr /blockquotePlayMade Energy’s mission is to bring renewable electricity to schools in the developing world through the fun of play. The Energee-Saw is a simple and fun see-saw which generates renewable electricity as a by-product of play. The Energee-Saw is currently in final development following further testing in Malawi during 2009./blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-9215909583558797559?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• October 26, 2009
• 17:14

  OPIC - Global Technology and Innovation Fund

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.opic.gov/investment-funds/calls-for-proposals/global-technology-innovation-fund"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 171px; height: 66px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SuXZZqwMCkI/AAAAAAAAAYs/naPmrbqL7Do/s400/Opic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396958763469769282" border="0" //aspan id="pageCenter"br //spandiv style="text-align: justify;"span id="pageCenter"The a href="http://www.opic.gov/investment-funds/calls-for-proposals/global-technology-innovation-fund"Overseas Private Investment Corporation/a ("OPIC") is inviting proposals from qualified private equity fund managers for the formation and management of one or more investment funds (“funds”) that plan to invest in a wide variety of companies or projects that provide access to technologies in the OPIC-eligible countries. OPIC will provide financing ranging between $25 million and $150 million in total capital for each selected fund./span/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1717848493994516258?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 17:04

  Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project - award for social innovation in wireless

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://project.vodafone-us.com/about.html"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 98px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SuXW06SJzEI/AAAAAAAAAYk/Iun7BrQDrJo/s400/vodafone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396955932960345154" border="0" //abr /h3a href="http://project.vodafone-us.com/about.html"About the Wireless Innovation Project™/a/h3 p style="text-align: justify;"The Vodafone Americas Foundation™ designed the Wireless Innovation Project™ as a competition to promote innovation and increase implementation of wireless related technology for a better world. To that end, Vodafone Americas Foundation’s Wireless Innovation Project™ is providing up to $600,000 in awards to support projects of exceptional promise that meet the criteria described in the a href="http://project.vodafone-us.com/criteria_eligibility.html" title="eligibility criteria"Eligibility Criteria/a section. After successful completion of the Project last year, we are excited to launch the second Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project™. We will be accepting proposals from October 5, 2009 through February 1, 2010./pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3992866470165811709?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 16:49

  Aboubakar Fofana - Mali design house

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.aboubakar-fofana.com/"img alt="http://www.aboubakar-fofana.com/images/aboubakar-fofana.jpg" src="http://www.aboubakar-fofana.com/images/aboubakar-fofana.jpg" //abr /a href="http://www.aboubakar-fofana.com/"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.aboubakar-fofana.com/"From Site:/abr //divdiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquote/blockquoteblockquoteToday, Aboubakar Fofana reinterprets this blue magic, infusing it with a new vitality and a contemporary aesthetic. Inspired to preserve his cultural heritage and the health of the planet, he creates sublime, limited edition designs on organic fabrics for interior décor and fashion. Aboubakar Fofana expresses his passion in a nuanced blue palette. Each hue echoes a unique and profound emotion. Each creation evokes a soulful sensuality and timeless serenity./blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2974242986547685267?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 16:44

  GO Ingenuity Award - awarded to artists, inventors, and small business entrepreneurs

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  h1a href="http://www.gocampaign.org/GIA/"GO Ingenuity Award/a/h1 bSharing Invention amp; Innovation with Youthbr / Launched at Maker Faire Africa 2009, Accra, Ghana/bbr /br /div style="text-align: justify;" /divp style="text-align: justify;"The GO Ingenuity Award (GIA) is awarded to artists, inventors, and small business entrepreneurs to stimulate the next generation of "makers." Building on the momentum of a href="http://makerfaireafrica.com/" target="_blank"Maker Faire Africa/a, GO Campaign will award one-year, one-time fellowship grants to individual applicants who are eager to share their skills with marginalized youth in developing countries in ways that educate and inspire youth to harness their own ingenuity. The GIA emphasizes the sharing of innovative artistry and technology in informal, hands-on learning workshops in places where youth already gather. /p a href="http://makerfaireafrica.com/" target="_new"img src="http://www.gocampaign.org/images/makerfaire.jpg" title="click to launch" border="1" height="112" width="324" //abr /br / h2Guidelines/h2 p style="text-align: justify;"GO Campaign will award a maximum of five GO Ingenuity Awards per year in amounts ranging from $500 to $2,500 each. Award recipients are required to hold a minimum of 3 youth workshops at schools, orphanages, or youth organizations within 6 months of receiving the Award. Youth is defined as ages 25 and under. /p pRecipients will be required to sign an agreement with GO which will include a disbursement and reporting schedule based on the nature and timing of the workshops. The agreement will include recipients' requirements to: /p ulliSubmit a brief narrative progress report after the first workshop including how funds received from GO have been spent/liliSubmit a final comprehensive report with photos and narrative of the workshops, including letters from teachers, youth group leaders and feedback from attending youth/liliA budget and supporting collateral detailing how all the funds were spent/li/ul pWinners will be profiled on the GO Campaign website and in media outlets at GO Campaign's sole discretion./p pApplications for the 2010 GIA are due by December 1, 2009./p h2How to Apply/h2 p style="text-align: justify;"In completing the application, Artists, Inventors and Small Business Entrepreneurs are asked to submit a description and photo of their product/invention/craftwork, a timeline when the workshops will be held (all workshops must be completed by July 31, 2010), and a detailed line-item budget proposal of how the Award will be used. Budgets should include any necessary program development, promotion, supplies, transportation costs, as well as a stipend for the applicant. Applicant must clearly identify schools, orphanages or youth organizations where workshops will be held. Applicants must demonstrate potential and relative impact of product/invention/craftwork to be considered./pdiv style="text-align: justify;" /divp style="text-align: justify;"GO Campaign strongly encourages applicants to collaborate with non-profits, community-based organizations and local businesses to complete the application and, if selected as an Award recipient, conduct the workshops./pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1211232763164964521?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 16:40

  Gone Rural Swaziland - African high-end décor products

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.goneruralswazi.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 90px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SuXRMXSN61I/AAAAAAAAAYc/IWrrZVnmXy4/s400/Gone+rural+swaz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396949738812468050" border="0" //abr /a href="http://www.goneruralswazi.com/"About/abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquote/blockquoteblockquoteGone Rural embraces the vitality and artistic spirit of women living in rural Swaziland to create innovative, high-end décor products for discerning clients. Inspired by the vision of designer Philippa Thorne, indigenous grass has been transformed into a global sensation. Gone Rural’s range has been featured by leading magazines, such as Elle Decoration, and imparts a fresh elegance to homes and chic boutiques around the world.br //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3133991360394116397?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 16:23

  Citadel Capital - African private equity firm

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.citadelcapital.com/"img alt="http://www.citadelcapital.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/CC-Logo-Standard.png" src="http://www.citadelcapital.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/CC-Logo-Standard.png" //abr /a href="http://www.citadelcapital.com/"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.citadelcapital.com/"From Site:/abr /br /blockquoteCitadel Capital is a private equity firm based in Cairo. Majority controlled by its senior management and employees, Citadel Capital makes control private equity investments in the Middle East and North Africa and has more than US$ 8.3 billion in investments under control, spanning 19 Platform Companies in 14 industries across 12 countries./blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2480093430364164877?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• October 05, 2009
• 21:46

  2010 MIF competition for innovative financial solutions

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fininnov.org/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 126px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Ssppc4JMWwI/AAAAAAAAAYU/DU2ICntDNzc/s400/2010+MIF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389235848930417410" border="0" //abr /div class="droite" The a href="http://www.fininnov.org/"Agence Française de Développement (AFD)/a, the Bill amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank will co-host an span class="rouge"international Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development (2010 MIF)/span to be held in Paris on span class="rouge"March, 4-5 2010. /spanbr /br /The 2010 MIF will be dedicated to smart, fine-tuned, innovative financial mechanisms for mobilizing, channeling, and spending funds for development issues. The event will bring together development practioners, donors, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, academics, representatives from across a range of financial institutions and policy makers to exchange experience and ideas on innovative development finance solutions. The event will be structured around workshops and a marketplace where innovators can showcase their initiatives and projects. The main objectives of the event are to:br /br /bThe main objectives of the event are to:/b ulliadvance the agenda on innovative financial solutions for development;/lilifacilitate knowledge sharing and learning, including South/South learning, on innovative financial solutions for development, what works and what doesn’t , and how to design solutions to maximize development impact and cost-effectiveness; and/lilispur the evolution of cutting-edge projects that apply innovative financial mechanisms to development challenges./li/ulbr /br /span class="tit"The Competition/spanbr /br /A key feature of the 2010 MIF will be a competition to garner and highlight fresh ideas on how innovative financing mechanisms can be used to solve development challenges at the local, country, regional, or global levels, with the goal that successful innovations can be scaled up and replicated.br /The winners will be awarded pilot grants of up to US$100,000 to assist them in the implementation of their proposals.br /br /span class="rouge"Proposals are welcomed from all organizations involved in innovative finance focused on development, including financial institutions, private-sector companies, social enterprises, non-governmental and civil society organizations, government agencies, universities and other academic organizations, foundations, and development organizations. Guidelines and application forms can be accessed on the 2010 MIF website: a href="http://www.fininnov.org/"www.fininnov.org/abr /br /Proposals must be submitted by November 15span class="exp"th/span 2009.br /br /For further informations, please contact: a href="mailto://info@fininnov.org"info@fininnov.org/a/span /divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8731446355263577109?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:41

  Arts in Africa - one stop portal about arts in Africa

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.artsinafrica.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 62px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SspoWaEFOJI/AAAAAAAAAYM/oBqIbC39HeI/s400/Arts+in+Africa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389234638265071762" border="0" //abr /a href="http://www.artsinafrica.com/"From Site:/abr /br /The objective of this website is to be a one stop portal for information about the arts in Africa listed by country as well as discipline. It includes information on UNESCO branches, Funding Agencies, E-newsletters, Cultural Policy, Creative Industries, Events, Conferences, Training Institutions and civil society organisations among others.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4748514575463945127?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:37

  Global Mamas - handmade apparel

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.globalmamas.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 65px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SspnY7OgBkI/AAAAAAAAAYE/rVymaynKido/s400/Global+Mamas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389233582015252034" border="0" //abr /a href="http://www.globalmamas.com/"From site: /abr /blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"Global Mamas enhances the international marketplace with unique, high quality, handmade apparel, and at the same time provides sustainable livelihoods for women and girls in Africa.br / br /Global Mama’s reduces the economic inequality of women by significantly increasing the revenues and profits of woman-owned businesses in Africa. This in turn increases employee wages, generates new jobs and improves the standard of living. We believe that helping women gain economic independence is the most effective way to reduce dependence on foreign aid and steadily create a prosperous society. /div/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-9155373200155237089?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:11

  BHF Magazine - African fashion

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bhfmagazine.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 142px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SsplvPh84ZI/AAAAAAAAAX8/-9xRtQpAc4c/s400/BHF+magazine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389231766399410578" border="0" //aa href="http://bhfmagazine.com/"From site:/abr /blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"BHF magazine is an exciting and dynamic new African Lifestyle Magzine. With a boldness and eged, the likes of which has never been seen before, this quartely publication is the brainchild of visionary entreprenurial power couple Geoffrey and Jennifer Olisa./div/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7362829143541835630?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• September 29, 2009
• 1:33

  Agri-Vie - Africa Agribusiness investment fund

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.agrivie.com/index.html"img alt="http://www.agrivie.com/images/agrivie-logo.gif" src="http://www.agrivie.com/images/agrivie-logo.gif" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"From Site:br /blockquotep class="style2" align="justify"a href="http://www.agrivie.com/index.html"Agri-Vie/a is a private equity investment fund focused on agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa. /p p class="style2" align="justify"The fund’s mission is to generate an above average investment return, as well as demonstrable socio-economic development impacts through equity investments in agribusinesses./p div class="style4" align="justify"span class="style5"The fund’s vision is to be a catalyst for sustainable growth through investing in one of the foundation sectors of Africa’s economies. The fund seeks to realise this vision through deploying development capital and management know-how according to sound investment and business principles./span/div/blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-564403866835110675?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 1:22

  Oliberte - African shoe startup

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.oliberte.com/home/"img alt="http://www.oliberte.com/images/logo.jpg" src="http://www.oliberte.com/images/logo.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"span class="bio"a href="http://www.oliberte.com/home/"Oliberté/a is the first footwear company to make urban shoes exclusively in Africa - based on Fairtrade principles. /spanbr /br /Headquarted in Canada, Oliberte has launched the first international footwear company to work exclusively in Africa. Designs for men and women shoes are urban-casual inspired and sold online (www.oliberte.com) and in select stores this Fall in Canada and the United States. Initial styles include ROVIA (Men) and ELIKA (Women) and have colourful pop with Oliberte`s signatures including thin crepe rubber soles and circles throughout designs./div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7779780356479049359?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 0:10

  Canoe Magazine - African lifestyle magazine

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.canoequarterly.com/index.html"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 63px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SsFfzGqb7zI/AAAAAAAAAX0/n62vJZYMAbM/s400/Canoe+Quarterly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386691960878395186" border="0" //abr /From Site:br / span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"/spandiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotespan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"a href="http://www.canoequarterly.com/index.html"CANOE/a is inspired to celebrate Africa’s evolving culture and lifestyle. It is a creative initiative by 7 entrepreneurs endeavoured to correct the image of Africa, predict growing trends and portray positively, the continent and its people. The result is a conservative, sexy template, heralding the rebirth of Afro-cool. CANOE seeks to guide ‘Black Diamonds and Pearls’ /spanspan style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"[your Afro-bourgeois]: Principally, in luxury trends and laudable knowledge through exposure - the power with which they can augment their lives and secure an exceptional lifestyle with a sense of pride and knowledge of self. CANOE is not hesitant to show success through extravagance as a merit of prosperity; but to create a lust, a passion for the rewarding things in life. Sail with us to see the new Africa. /span/span/blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-6902183094970828392?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• September 21, 2009
• 20:08

  2009 US - Africa Business Summit - Washington, DC, Sept 29 - Oct 1

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=a83433d4-f64f-4adb-aeda-0525c94ca0eb"img style="width: 366px; height: 76px;" src="http://gamutint.com/images/cca.jpg" //a/pp style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=a83433d4-f64f-4adb-aeda-0525c94ca0eb"Conference website/abr //p The African continent continues to show potential as a leading foreign direct investment destination for American businesses, despite the economic downturn nations around the globe are currently experiencing. According to the IMF, Africa is still expected to maintain a positive growth rate of 3.4% for 2009, an impressive achievement for the continent. The continent is seeing increasingly higher levels of investment in industries such as infrastructure, financing, tourism, agribusiness, health, and energy.div style="text-align: justify;"br /What an important time for your business to explore investments in some of the world's key emerging markets. Partnerships between U.S. and African businesses will be formed, during The Corporate Council on Africa’s (CCA) 2009 U.S.-Africa Business Summit. Businesses of all sizes, representing various industries will be in attendance, eager to find new opportunities to grow and positively impact their bottom line.br /br /Join CCA and more than 1,500 of the private and public sector's top leaders to find out about business and investment opportunities in Africa, the very place where some of today's major business deals are taking place.br //divbr /strongWhen:/strong Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - Thursday, October 1, 2009br /div /divdivstrongWhere: /strong/divdivThe Walter E. Washington Convention Center/divdiv801 Mount Vernon Place, NW/divdivWashington, District of Columbia 20001/divdivUSA /divdiv /divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-391450058213357559?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 20:04

  Vittana - P2P student micro lending

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.vittana.org"img alt="http://www.vittana.org/images/vittana-beta.png" src="http://www.vittana.org/images/vittana-beta.png" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"From their a href="http://www.vittana.org"site/a:br /blockquotepWe partner with microfinance institutions (MFIs) throughout the developing world to support and catalyze new student lending programs. By connecting you to students, we enable our span class="caps"MFI/span partners to raise the right kind of capital to work with more and more students. Each student that appears on our website is a real student and not marketing material./p pWe believe that the biggest waste in the world is not oil or food or, really, any other material thing — but, rather, human potential./p/blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4786916344332306216?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 19:57

  CollaborAid - knowledge sharing of aid resources

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.collaboraid.org"img alt="http://www.collaboraid.org/images/collaboraid_title.png" src="http://www.collaboraid.org/images/collaboraid_title.png" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"From their a href="http://www.collaboraid.org"site/a:br /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteWe aspire to increase the efficiency and sustainability of aid projects by making it easy for the diverse actors in the development community to connect, collaborate, and share information.br /br /The impact of development aid falls far short of its potential. Inefficient practices are systemic due to a disconnect between development organizations, obstacles to sustained learning, limited insight into localized needs, and a failure to promote capacity building amongst indigenous stakeholders.br /br //blockquote/div/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-9194496987902317541?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 19:47

  Aventure investment partners

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  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.auroraventura.com/home.html"img alt="http://www.auroraventura.com/images/188_Aventura_green_logo.JPG" src="http://www.auroraventura.com/images/188_Aventura_green_logo.JPG" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.auroraventura.com/home.html"Aventura/a invests in early-stage investments in rural Africa. Specifically, the Fund addresses the challenges facing rural agricultural communities in Africa in a new, innovative way and is dedicated to investing in and promoting African entrepreneurs and managers.br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5799719691575797783?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 19:37

  Tebazile - African Jewelry house

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tebazile.com/#/Home"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 119px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SrfXi6pgDHI/AAAAAAAAAXk/K6g7VL79Iyk/s400/Tebazile.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384008874403564658" border="0" //aa href="http://tebazile.com/#/Home"About Tebazile/abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteblockquote/blockquoteTebazile is an African jewelry house, their style stems from a combination of color and textures of traditional West African and European motifs...says owner/designer, Elizabeth Dankaro/blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2106029808965401874?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 18:50

  Storm 360 - West Africa entertainment company

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://storm360degrees.com/index.php"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 137px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SrfVJt7IvEI/AAAAAAAAAXc/o3DVavQ10eM/s400/Storm_360.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384006242467888194" border="0" //abr /a href="http://storm360degrees.com/index.php"About Storm 360/abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteStorm 360 is a leading entertainment company in West Africa. Firmly at the forefront of the booming entertainment sector in this region, Storm 360 operates within a multi-platform, multi-purpose media space which makes them uniquely able to deliver genuine 360 degree content solutions to their clients./blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-6439235130685618729?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• August 31, 2009
• 4:30

  Blue Skies - Agribusiness in Africa and other emerging markets

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  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.bsholdings.com/"input name="ImageButton4" id="ImageButton4" src="http://www.bsholdings.com/images/logo1.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" type="image"br //aa href="http://www.bsholdings.com/"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"span id="txt" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family: arial;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" a href="http://www.bsholdings.com/"Blues Skies/a employs 2000 people in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa and Brazil and supplies to a variety of customers including some of the biggest supermarket chains in the UK, Europe and South Africa. /spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" Their business includes producing and packaging fruits into juices and other by-products to the global markets. /spanspan style="font-size:100%;"br //spanbr /br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-6000240256828293466?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• July 22, 2009
• 2:58

  Kelele - African bloggers conference

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  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.kelele.org"img alt="http://www.kelele.org/wp-content/themes/eBusiness/images/logo-Radiate-Red.png" src="http://www.kelele.org/wp-content/themes/eBusiness/images/logo-Radiate-Red.png" //abr /br /p style="text-align: justify;"strongWhat is Kelele?/strong/pdiv style="text-align: justify;" /divp style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.kelele.org"Kelele/a is an annual African bloggers’ conference held in a different African city each year and run by an organising committee in that city. Kelele will be held for the first time in October 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya./pdiv style="text-align: justify;" /divp style="text-align: justify;"strongWhy Kelele?/strongbr /Kelele is the Kiswahili word for noise./pdiv style="text-align: justify;" /divp style="text-align: justify;"We are organising a gathering of African bloggers in the tradition of historical African societies where everyone has a voice. With too many voices marginalised or simply ignored in African society today for a variety of reasons, we believe that the internet in general and grassroots media tools such as blogs in particular represent the most powerful way in which to give Africans back their voice. We are gathering to make a powerful, positive, inspirational noise that will be heard across the continent and beyond. KELELE!/pdiv style="text-align: justify;" /divp style="text-align: justify;"The specific theme of Kelele ’09 Nairobi is Beat Your Drum – which connects the traditional African method of getting your message across vast distances – the talking drums – to the 21st century and the tools we use today, blogs and the Internet. We anticipate that this conference will continue to be called Kelele wherever it is held. For example Kelele Nairobi ’09, Kelele Accra ’10, Kelele Cairo ’11 and so on./p strong/strongbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1251239452460186651?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• July 16, 2009
• 21:52

  We Care Solar - Dr. Laura Stachel

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wecaresolar.com"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 105px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sl-hs2uL8tI/AAAAAAAAAXU/VgIA463ckZ0/s400/we+care+solar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359179873569731282" border="0" //abr /span style="font-weight: bold;"From site:/spanbr /br /bOur Mission/bbr /br /div style="text-align: justify;" a href="http://www.wecaresolar.com"WE CARE SOLAR/a promotes safe motherhood and reduces maternal mortality in developing regions by providing health workers with reliable lighting, blood bank refrigeration and mobile communication using solar electricity.br //divbr /bSolutions/bbr /br /We originally designed a photovoltaic system to power lighting, medical equipment, a blood bank refrigerator, and communication equipment in a major municipal hospital in Northern Nigeria. We installed this system in early 2009. pOur emergency obstetric PV system powers the following:/p div ulliOverhead surgical lighting in areas of critical need such as the operating room and labor and delivery/liliMobile telecommunications between hospital staff and on-call physicians/liliExisting on-site surgical equipment that is currently underutilized/liliA blood bank refrigerator that utilizes DC electricity/liliBattery chargers that power LED headlamps for night duty workers/li/ul /divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3345626205538075650?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:42

  Spaceloon - Africa consortium for near space communication

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://spaceloon.com"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 49px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sl-f57JJToI/AAAAAAAAAXM/iq5veulNjKw/s400/spaceloon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359177899071590018" border="0" //abr /From site:br /br /div style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-size:100%;"span style="font-size: 9pt;"a href="http://spaceloon.com"Spaceloon/a was created as the common face of a consortium of companies operating in Africa that seeks a cheaper than satellite approach to communication. Our target is to provide ubiquitous wireless coverage to Africa at the cheapest price possible. We believe the time is now to deploy such spacial technology to enable the continent to leap frog into the 21st century. /spanbr //span/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4223602783920433187?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:36

  Mecene investment - socially responsible investments in Africa

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.meceneinvestment.com"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 45px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sl-dxtV5yEI/AAAAAAAAAXE/zS6PKKcdipc/s400/Mecene+investment.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359175558904793154" border="0" //abr /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.meceneinvestment.com"Mecene Investment/a is a Private Equity Advisory Firm that specializes in socially responsible investments in Africa.br /br /The company draws on its successful private equity experience in African microfinance industry to promote equity and debt investments in industries that provide high social, environmental and developmental impact.br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3063078492053859910?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:12

  Advans - acccess to finance in emerging markets

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  div style="text-align: justify;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.advansgroup.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sl-aP88f8kI/AAAAAAAAAW8/CZwCCrFnIkI/s400/advans.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359171680442774082" border="0" //aa href="http://www.advansgroup.com/"Advans SA's/a mission is to build a network of financial institutions in developing and emerging countries offering loans, deposits and other standard financial services to MSMEs which have limited or no access to formal banking services. These institutions are commonly known as microfinance institutions (MFIs) or microbanks when they are licensed as banks.br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4415105125515400334?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
• 21:03

  Building Zambikes in Zambia - Video

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  h2a href="http://www.abikes.org/zambikes/"Zambikes/a/h2 h4 style="text-align: center;"Mission: To provide high quality bicycles and educational training to underprivileged and service based Zambians./h4br /br /div style="text-align: center;"object height="300" width="360"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tmqcv6d7mCsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tmqcv6d7mCsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="300" width="360"/embed/objectbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-703282423784174391?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• June 30, 2009
• 21:21

  Aqua Port - easy transportation of Water

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  p style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.aquaport.org/"From Site/a/pp style="text-align: justify;"/pdiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteThe Aquaport is a modular design that allows the user to attach and detach different parts of the device depending upon the amount the user can pull. Each part can be filled individually, and has a handle attached for easy carrying. The device will be pushed like the Hippo Roller. Due to its modular nature it can be broke into smaller pieces for storage and distribution./blockquote/divp/pp style="text-align: center;"br //pp style="text-align: center;"img style="width: 367px; height: 290px;" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18" title="aquaport1" src="http://www.aquaport.org/wp-content/uploads/aquaport1.bmp" alt="Aqua Port" //pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2054748273966426252?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:16

  Capri Capital Partners

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SkqA7gdURZI/AAAAAAAAAW0/T31kKcQ5ev0/s1600-h/Capri.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 102px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SkqA7gdURZI/AAAAAAAAAW0/T31kKcQ5ev0/s400/Capri.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353232866896790930" border="0" //aa href="http://www.capricapital.com/"Capri Capital Partners/a focuses on real estate and infrastructure investments in Emerging Markets. They have a portfolio of $4 billion for investments.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-348614084476724493?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:12

  Africa Sustainable Energy - Solarix launches Sustainer

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://sustainableenergyinafrica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/solarix-launches-sustainer"img style="width: 372px; height: 251px;" src="http://api.ning.com/files/TTUZ3WSJfdl2vSbX2QDeEJm-c7lLw0IkfsJPw8S9mhxdOZ*pjNPC5kCZPyaCvO5sNG*SZHj7O5MGxPQvzkaEhv2B2itPZYXG/Sustainer.jpg?width=530" alt="" //a/pdiv style="text-align: justify;"br /a href="http://sustainableenergyinafrica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/solarix-launches-sustainer"The Sustainer/a is a unique solution to produce fuel and electricity in remote rural areas, for example in the African countryside where only 5 to 20 percent of the population have electricity. In many of these situations, access to energy would facilitate development, higher productivity and better education. Moreover, locally available resources can be used instead of expensive imports.br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5255397042810378527?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:02

  Bikes made out of Bamboo Carbon Fiber

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.calfeedesign.com/BambooOverview.htm"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 130px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Skp-7gglxCI/AAAAAAAAAWs/LViuXmWAtSA/s400/wheader1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353230667887264802" border="0" //abr /pa href="http://www.calfeedesign.com/BambooOverview.htm"Calfee Design/a is working towards assisting entrepreneurs in the developing world to make their own bicycles out of locally sourced bamboo. The reasons to do this are so strong that it would be foolish not to try:/p olliBicycles are in great demand as a major labor savings device. Transporting water, people, food and other items is six times more efficient. /liliBamboo bikes cost less than inferior imported steel bikes. /liliBamboo is plentiful and does not need to be imported as a raw material. Bamboo is easy to grow and can be cultivated in dry areas with minimal irrigation. /liliBamboo bikes require a significant amount of labor to produce, providing skilled employment and an apprenticeship model that helps youth find opportunity./liliBamboo bicycle production is not easily done in large factories. This keeps large industrialized countries from getting into the business and competing on an unfair level. /liliMaking Bamboo bikes does not require electricity or a large investment in equipment. /li/olp style="text-align: center;"img style="width: 427px; height: 256px;" src="http://www.calfeedesign.com/images/BambooCargoBike604x363.jpg" alt="" //pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3363664801542084949?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 20:58

  Solar cooker in use Maasai Mara via Afrigadget blog

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  Maasai using a solar cooker via a href="http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/25/solar-cooker-in-use-maasai-mara/"Afrigadget/a blogbr /br /h2a href="http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/25/solar-cooker-in-use-maasai-mara/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Solar cooker in use Maasai Mara"Solar cooker in use Maasai Mara/a/h2 pI didn’t believe it possible but I found this lady actually using a solar cooker in the Masai Mara!/p div id="attachment_778" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 444px;"img style="width: 376px; height: 251px;" class="size-full wp-image-778" title="mama-solar-cooker" src="http://www.afrigadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mama-solar-cooker.jpg" alt="Mama solar cooker" /p class="wp-caption-text"Mama solar cooker/p/div pMade only of cardboard and tin foil this cooker fold up into a neat little package. It apparently cooks potatoes and cabbage in just 1 hour!/p pShe told me that she got it as part of a study - one solar cooker was given to every manyatta. She couldn’t rememer which organization was handing them out but she has adapted hers by putting her pot into a plastic bag which she says retains the heat better. She says she’ll continue using the solar cooker after the study and will even buy one at Ksh 1,000./p pShe still has a 3 stone wood fire to cook meat./p pI wonder what happens to this device when it rains…does the cardboard become a sodden mess?/p script type="text/javascript"SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Solar cooker in use Maasai Mara", url: "http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/25/solar-cooker-in-use-maasai-mara/" });/scriptspan id="sharethis_0"a st_page="home" href="javascript:void(0)" title="ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc." class="stbutton stico_rotate"span st_page="home" class="stbuttontext"/span/a/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7222306920846258731?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• June 22, 2009
• 5:38

  Zeep Travel - Nigerian Online Travel portal

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.zeeptravel.com"img alt="http://www.zeeptravel.com/Shared/Images/zeep_logo.jpg" src="http://www.zeeptravel.com/Shared/Images/zeep_logo.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.zeeptravel.com"From Site:/abr /blockquoteOur portal provides direct access to one of the broadest selections of travel deals and services. Zeeptravel.com features strong style="color: rgb(207, 16, 26);"airline tickets, hotel reservations, private transfers and many other travel services/strong from a broad selection of partners addressing different consumer needs like families and individuals booking a summer vacation to corporates arranging a business trip.br / br / Zeeptravel.com partners include major International and Local Airlines operating in Nigeria like British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Emirates Airlines, Lufthansa Airlines, Air France/KLM, Qatar Airlines, South African Airlines, Virgin Nigeria, Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines and more. Zeeptravel.com also provides over 45000 hotels globally at discounted rates./blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2295752754502983145?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 5:28

  African Agricultural Capital - AAC

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.web.aac.co.ke/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sj8Xeuys03I/AAAAAAAAAWk/347aENs6wa4/s400/AAC.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350020699063636850" border="0" //abr /a href="http://www.web.aac.co.ke/"From Site: /abr /blockquoteAfrican Agricultural Capital (AAC) is a leading agribusiness-focused investment fund in Africa that delivers positive financial returns to its investors, supports its investees through the provision of affordable and flexible capital, and has a high social and development impact on smallholder farmers and rural economies, thereby encouraging greater investment in the agriculture sector./blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3083849689090458971?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• May 22, 2009
• 21:40

  TeleMed Africa

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://telemed-africa.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 86px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShccR9X1ICI/AAAAAAAAAVs/zQV4W8ursN4/s400/telemed+africa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338766978128879650" border="0" //abr /spana href="http://telemed-africa.com/"TeleMed Africa/a will be the first low cost medical service enabling millions of sub-Saharan Africans to access timely, affordable, and professional diagnosis and advice. By leveraging existing mobile technologies and infrastructure, TeleMed Africa is advancing the front lines of healthcare.br /br //spandiv style="text-align: center;"spanobject height="244" width="325"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QaW7YbbSzKUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QaW7YbbSzKUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="244" width="325"/embed/object/spanbr //divdiv style="text-align: center;"br /br /br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8901965998632134382?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:33

  AQUADA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.aquada.com/projects.htm"img style="width: 268px; height: 161px;" alt="http://www.aquada.com/amuba.JPG" src="http://www.aquada.com/amuba.JPG" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: quot;Book Antiquaquot;;"a href="http://www.aquada.com/projects.htm"Aquada Development Corporation/a is in the business of developing and managing property and communities for residential, commercial, and recreational use. They undertake large developments as well as small individual projects. /spanbr /br /br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8251627837710309894?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:21

  Txteagle - transcription service via SMS

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://txteagle.com"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 52px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcYkZAkXmI/AAAAAAAAAVk/vljdg-isryM/s400/txteagle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338762896738639458" border="0" //abr /bDigital Planet/bbr /div class="mvb" span class="byl" Alka Marwaha /span br / span class="byd" BBC World Service /span /divbr /div style="text-align: justify;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcYkZAkXmI/AAAAAAAAAVk/vljdg-isryM/s1600-h/txteagle.jpg"bA new scheme that distributes simple tasks via text messages is being used to target a potential untapped work force in developing countries./b /a/divp style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://txteagle.com"Txteagle/a is making it possible for many people in countries like Kenya to earn small amounts of money by completing simple tasks like translations or transcriptions. /pp style="text-align: justify;"Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" similarly divides up tasks but Txteagle differs in that it distributes them via text messages over mobile phones, which have a higher penetration rate - particularly in the developing world. /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-288993584481847355?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 21:08

  SHE - Sustainable Health Enterprises

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcW25XPiuI/AAAAAAAAAVc/vPIY7XnHSug/s1600-h/sus+health+ent.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 51px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcW25XPiuI/AAAAAAAAAVc/vPIY7XnHSug/s400/sus+health+ent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338761015638067938" border="0" //abr /pSHE intends to fulfill girls’ and women’s unmet need by helping local women in developing countries jump-start their own businesses to manufacture and distribute affordable, quality, and eco-friendly sanitary pads. SHE will look to use local raw materials, instead of all imported materials, to ensure affordability and accessibility. /p pimg src="http://sheinnovates.com/images/ventures/fiber.jpg" alt="banana fiber" align="right" height="150" width="187" /SHE will couple its product innovation with a financially sustainable business model operated and owned by women in the community that can be replicated wherever the need exists. SHE will instigate the launch of a local business by/p ulliPartnering with existing local women’s networks; /liliEnsuring a microfinance loan for women who will share start-up costs;/liliTraining local group in necessary business skills and health and hygiene./li/uldiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1171446432747514640?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 20:57

  African Digital Art

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.africandigitalart.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 72px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/ShcTf3VspCI/AAAAAAAAAVM/UxpNoAC3qUw/s400/African+Digital+art.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338757321422840866" border="0" //aa href="http://www.africandigitalart.com/"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.africandigitalart.com/"African Digital Art/a is an online collective, a creative space, where digital artist, enthusiasts and professionals can seek inspiration, showcase their artistry and connect with emerging artists.br //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7201143828196621536?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• April 30, 2009
• 18:54

  Wired Magazine - Students Build a Nano For Africa

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a linkindex="60" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=510,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/wp-content/image.php?u=/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2009/04/14/ugandan_car02.jpg"img style="width: 325px; height: 207px;" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/images/2009/04/14/ugandan_car02.jpg" title="Ugandan_car02" alt="Ugandan_car02" border="0" //abr /emPhotos: Dr. Yasin Naku Ziraba/embr /br /div style="text-align: left;"a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/04/move-over-tata/"From Wired Magazine/a:br //divdiv style="text-align: justify;"p/pblockquote/blockquotep/pdiv style="text-align: justify;"/div/divblockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"div style="text-align: justify;"div style="text-align: justify;"Eleven Ugandan college students believe they can bring affordable transportation to rural Africa with a home-grown, dirt-cheap car assembled from farm equipment./divdiv style="text-align: justify;" /divp style="text-align: justify;"The prototype of the "Poor Man’s Car" isn’t much to look at, fashioned as it is from sheet metal, wood seats and a diesel engine pulled from a corn mill, but the design and materials would be refined should the car ever see production. Moses Sebulime and his classmates at Makerere University believe the utilitarian runabout could bring mobility to the masses, much like the Tata Nano./p/div/blockquote/divp /pp /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-1948638727628193037?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:51

  Zambeef - Zambia agribusiness

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  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.zambeef.com/"img alt="http://www.zambeef.com/images/topcornerfiinal222.gif" src="http://www.zambeef.com/images/topcornerfiinal222.gif" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"a href="http://www.zambeef.com/"Zambeef Products PLC/a is one of the largest agri-businesses in Zambia and the region, involved in the production, processing, distribution and retailing of beef, chickens, eggs, milk and dairy products throughout Zambia and Nigeria.br /br /The company is also one of the largest cropping operations in Africa with 2,700 hectares under irrigation and a further 1,500 hectares of dry land crops./span/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4107099611755012935?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:47

  Pen + Bytes - promoting journalism through ICT

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.penplusbytes.org"img src="http://www.penplusbytes.org/images/penplus_logo.gif" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.penplusbytes.org"From Site/a:br /blockquoteInternational Institute for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Journalism (PenPlusBytes) is a registered company limited by guarantee since 18th July 2001. PenPlusBytes seeks to empower the media through the use of ICTs to advance the work of journalism. It consists of a network of media organizations and journalists interested in using ICTs effectively to advance the course of journalism. We have trained over 100 journalists from various parts of Africa and across the globe in cutting edge new media technologies and contemporary ICT issues./blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7887740974778647869?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:39

  Thomro Investments - Zambia Biofuel production

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.thomrobiofuels.com"img alt="http://www.thomrobiofuels.com/images/thomro_logo.jpg" src="http://www.thomrobiofuels.com/images/thomro_logo.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" span lang="EN-US"a href="http://www.thomrobiofuels.com"Thomro Investments Limited/a is among the few pioneer companies in Zambia promoting and engaging in the development of biofuels industry in Zambia. The main plant for biofuel production comes from Jathropa. Thomro also offers/span/spanspan style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" span lang="EN-US" consultancy services and training in order to improve the performance of operations in the industry./span/span/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-125344547529932987?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:33

  Advertfarm - African mobile content network

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.advertfarm.com/"img style="width: 340px; height: 91px;" alt="http://www.advertfarm.com/templates/default/img/logo-final.gif" src="http://www.advertfarm.com/templates/default/img/logo-final.gif" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.advertfarm.com/"From Site/a:br /blockquote style="font-style: italic;"pa href="http://www.advertfarm.com/"Advertfarm/a is a mobile content provider that helps businesses, organisations and institutions deliver their mobile contents to their targeted audience:/ppWe provide premium mobile services on our permission based mobile network. /ppstrongOur services include but are not limited to:/strong/p div class="sign_up_bullets" div class="bullet_item" SMS marketing and loyalty programs/div div class="bullet_item" SMS Recruitment/div div class="bullet_item" Events Broadcasting/div div class="bullet_item" Sponsored Mobile Services/div div class="bullet_item" Referral campaigns/div div class="bullet_item" Targeted Mobile Advertisements/div /div/blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8004880668589286570?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:29

  PowerMundo - Improving lives, conserving nature

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.powermundo.com"img alt="http://www.powermundo.com/images/small-logo-with-tagline-0285.jpg" src="http://www.powermundo.com/images/small-logo-with-tagline-0285.jpg" //abr /a href="http://www.powermundo.com"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"p class="text"a href="http://www.powermundo.com"PowerMundo/a builds and manages a network of customers, retailers, and suppliers to design, develop, and disseminate a suite of appropriate technology products for people in emerging markets./p p class="text"PowerMundo first listens to the needs of people and then displays a suite of products that may fit their needs./p/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-967571480503360901?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:08

  Movirtu - innovative mobile technology solutions

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: justify;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.movirtu.com"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 59px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SfntJxPOTmI/AAAAAAAAAVE/yOtwNsGxSp8/s400/Movirtu.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330552386061487714" border="0" //aa href="http://www.movirtu.com"Movirtu/a works with mobile service providers located in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia deploying network infrastructure solutions and implementing sustainable business models that realise basic voice access and connectivity for people earning less than two dollars a day. We work closely with our clients, the mobile phone operators, to identify the most suitable solutions that fit the particular market needs./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2713150271817580074?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 17:54

  Rwanda Rising - Fast Company article

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"br /img style="width: 372px; height: 145px;" alt="http://www.fastcompany.com/files/imagecache/panoramic_image/files/features-86-rwanda1.jpg" src="http://www.fastcompany.com/files/imagecache/panoramic_image/files/features-86-rwanda1.jpg" /br /span style="font-size:78%;"span class="image-credit"Photograph by Marcus Bleasdale/span/spanbr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/134/special-report-rwanda-rising.html?page=0%2C0"From Site/a:br /blockquote/blockquoteblockquoteFifteen years after the genocide, the small African country has embraced a new model of economic development. Its strategy: Build a global network of powerful friends to lure private investment -- and market the brand of Rwanda.br /br /a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/134/special-report-rwanda-rising.html?page=0%2C0"Read More/abr //blockquote/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4778441941679294347?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• April 14, 2009
• 19:03

  Fablab Kenya - small scale workshop manufacturing

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fablab.co.ke/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 88px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SeTfdOOkU-I/AAAAAAAAAU8/N9n-5kxvJdM/s400/Fablab+Kenya.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324626352587166690" border="0" //abr /About a href="http://www.fablab.co.ke/"Fablab Kenya/abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotespan class="style5"A Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small scale workshop with the tools to make almost anything. This includes technology-enabled products generally perceived as limited to mass production.br / br /Fab Lab will empower individuals to create smart devices for themselves. These devices can be tailored to local or personal needs in ways that are practical and economical.br / br /The Fab Lab program is part of the MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation.br / br /ARO Fablab Kenya West will finally be launched in September 2008. Three students: Vigdis, Apondi and Tom, all from ARC Kenya are now studying at the Fablab Norway to learn the basics and the tools in the lab that will easen their work when ARO Fablab Kenya West is finally lauched. /span p class="style5"ARO Fablab Kenya West will mainly be an educational center and anybody who feels like using the lab will do that without restrictions unless otherwise./p/blockquotebr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2803604438044132624?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:58

  PointCare - Diagnostics for the people

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.pointcare.net/"img alt="http://www.pointcare.net/home-images/pc_logo-h.gif" src="http://www.pointcare.net/home-images/pc_logo-h.gif" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"About PointCarebr /br /blockquotea href="http://www.pointcare.net/"PointCare/a designs 21supst/sup century, biotechnology-based solutions from the ground up. These products address the challenges of both the northern and southern hemispheres. They bring diagnostic capabilities to resource-limited urban and rural regions, enabling immediate identification and treatment of infectious diseases by healthcare professionals./blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2551456916039376879?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:48

  AccessPoint Africa - African Internet access company

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.accesspointafrica.com"img style="width: 382px; height: 120px;" alt="http://www.accesspointafrica.com/userfiles/OR6UC3QYLR0DK9LX.jpg" src="http://www.accesspointafrica.com/userfiles/OR6UC3QYLR0DK9LX.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"From site:br /br /blockquotea href="http://www.accesspointafrica.com"ACCESSPOINT/a Africa (APA®) is an innovative Telecommunications company that provides high speed Internet connections and Voice services to East, South and West Africa via Internet Cafés, Telecenters and Wireless Internet connections to commercial, government and residential sectors. Utilizing wired and wireless technology, APA® serves a large numbers of users with voice and broadband data communication services. The company's target market for Internet café and Telecenter services consists of the millions of customer's within major Southern and Western African cities that have a need to communicate via email or telephones but have limited or no access to such media from their jobs or residences respectively. APA®'s aim is to be the premier provider of voice and data connectivity services to customers throughout sub-saharan Africa.br //blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-357083662571743622?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:38

  Essential Interiors - Nigerian interior design house

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://essentialinteriorsng.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 79px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SeTY8oj2MgI/AAAAAAAAAUk/9Ub-UDwOJgs/s400/Essential+interious.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324619195650290178" border="0" //abr /div style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://essentialinteriorsng.com/"Essential Interior/a is a Nigerian interior design house. They design and implement interior designs in the Nigerian market. They use the latest trends and innovative ideas for all their clientele.br //divbr /div style="text-align: center;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SeTZXDTA2RI/AAAAAAAAAUs/RuCvTzELVTU/s1600-h/Interior+1.bmp"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 168px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SeTZXDTA2RI/AAAAAAAAAUs/RuCvTzELVTU/s400/Interior+1.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324619649504041234" border="0" //abr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8043884207263959923?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 18:32

  Obolo Films

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.obolofilms.com"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 55px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SeTXoowraoI/AAAAAAAAAUc/daEG7HP42SE/s400/Obolo+films.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324617752595098242" border="0" //abr /From a href="http://www.obolofilms.com"Obolo site/a:br /blockquotep style="text-align: justify;"I’m another strongman with a movie camera/strong, making my contribution to this world’s strongcinema experience/strong. I did not grow up wanting to be a strongfilmmaker/strong. It just happened. I started strongfilm-making/strong and and strongediting/strong at the age of 18, then kinda left it alone for a few years, pursuing other goals. Now I’m fully submerged in it. I eat, drink, sleep and love strongmaking films/strong. I can’t name any strongdirectors/strong that I can honestly say “I dig their work” other than strongSpike Lee/strong and strongKar Wai Wong/strong. All the others seem to mesh and blend, making some goulosh shit I ain’t trying to taste./p pObolo/p/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8961237605013279236?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 17:59

  Constructs LLC - African affordable housing construction

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.constructsllc.com"img alt="http://www.constructsllc.com/en/_images/logo1.jpg" src="http://www.constructsllc.com/en/_images/logo1.jpg" //abr /br /p style="text-align: justify;"strongConstructs LLC/strong/pp style="text-align: justify;"strong /strongspan class="style2"a href="http://www.constructsllc.com"Constructs LLC /ais a company that synergizes architecture, urban planning, landscaping, and building technology into a single unit geared towards bringing modern architecture and building techniques to Africa.br //span/pp style="text-align: justify;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SeTWBt292CI/AAAAAAAAAUU/WB-VI3HBjMk/s1600-h/constructs+llc.bmp"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 66px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SeTWBt292CI/AAAAAAAAAUU/WB-VI3HBjMk/s400/constructs+llc.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324615984437123106" border="0" //a/pbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5748509713294171175?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• March 26, 2009
• 15:18

  Adlevo Capital - Mauritius based Private Equity Fund

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://adlevocapital.com/index.html"img alt="http://adlevocapital.com/images/adlevo_logo.jpg" src="http://adlevocapital.com/images/adlevo_logo.jpg" //abr /a href="http://adlevocapital.com/index.html"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://adlevocapital.com/index.html"Adleveo Capital/a is a Mauritius based Private Equity fund. It's main mission is to establish and capitalize on the growing demand for infrastructure and services in sub-Saharan Africa.br /blockquote/blockquote/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4387650569885362226?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 15:01

  WAASPS - Aviation for Development in Ghana

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.waasps.com/index.htm"img src="http://www.waasps.com/images/logo300.gif" height="48" width="300" /br /strongspan style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" Aviation for Development/span/strong/abr /br /pimg style="width: 327px; height: 245px;" src="http://www.waasps.com/images/paramount.JPG" //pp style="text-align: justify;"/pdiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotea href="http://www.waasps.com/index.htm"WAASPS/a offers flight training, light manufacturing, maintainence, and operations of small aircraft (ultralights). WAASPS is located at Kpong airfield in Eastern Region, 50km north of Tema. Kpong Field is a private airfield./blockquote/divp/pbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-6011018539482807818?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• March 24, 2009
• 17:34

  Inviragen - Better Vaccines for a Better World

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.inviragen.com"img alt="http://www.inviragen.com/images/header.jpg" src="http://www.inviragen.com/images/header.jpg" //abr /div style="text-align: justify;"From site:br /blockquote style="font-style: italic;"pa href="http://www.inviragen.com"Inviragen/a, Inc. is committed to developing life-saving vaccines to protect against emerging infectious diseases worldwide. These vaccines will take advantage of new trends in the global vaccine marketplace including:/p ulliEconomic growth of developing countries/liliNew global vaccine initiatives by non-profit organizations/liliA growing public awareness of the value of vaccines for existing and emerging infectious diseases/liliThe need for vaccines as protection against potential bioweapon threats/li/ul/blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3506006478004976340?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 17:30

  Investment Fund for Health from Timbuktu Chronicles

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  Emeka Okafor has profiled a href="http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/03/investment-fund-for-health-in-africa.html" linkindex="5" set="yes"Investment Fund for Health/a on his blog Timbuktu Chronicles.br /br /blockquoteh3 class="post-title entry-title"a href="http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/03/investment-fund-for-health-in-africa.html" linkindex="3" set="yes"Investment Fund for Health in Africa/a /h3a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VfdGlmUwjFQ/SbFORhlAgxI/AAAAAAAAEMc/vTgokN9_yLw/s1600-h/logo_ifha.jpg" linkindex="4" set="yes"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310111498624860946" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 69px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VfdGlmUwjFQ/SbFORhlAgxI/AAAAAAAAEMc/vTgokN9_yLw/s200/logo_ifha.jpg" border="0" //aThe a href="http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/03/investment-fund-for-health-in-africa.html" linkindex="5" set="yes"Investment Fund for Health in Africa/aa href="http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/03/investment-fund-for-health-in-africa.html" /a(IFHA) is a a href="http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/search?q=venture+capital" linkindex="6" set="yes"venture capital/a a href="http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/search?q=fund" linkindex="7" set="yes"fund/a dedicated to small to medium size (equity) investments in private a href="http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/search?q=healthcare" linkindex="8"healthcare/a companies in (sub-Saharan) Africa. At IFHA, we invest in private healthcare /blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3554126551000332350?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 17:25

  Kuv Capital

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;" id="logo" a set="yes" linkindex="4" href="http://kuvcapital.com/" title="Kuv capital, a growth accelerator for digital media and e-business startups"img src="http://kuvcapital.com/img/kuv_red.png" title="Kuv capital, a growth accelerator for digital media and e-business startups" //abr /br /a href="http://kuvcapital.com/"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://kuvcapital.com/"Kuv Capital/a is a small-stage venture capital firm investing in small to early-stage startup companies. Most recently, they have been looking at early stage investments on the African continent.br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-6300630928229855023?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 17:20

  Maisha Film Labs

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div align="center"a set="yes" linkindex="0" href="http://www.maishafilmlab.com/index.php"img style="width: 360px; height: 129px;" src="http://www.maishafilmlab.com/images/headerlogo.png" border="0" //abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteFrom site:br /br /a href="http://www.maishafilmlab.com/index.php"bMAISHA/b/ai(meaning "life" in Kiswahili)/i provides new screenwriters and film directors from East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda) and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) with access to the professional training and production resources necessary to articulate their visions. Maisha aims to preserve, cultivate and unleash local voices from these regions, and to become one of the first targeted programs to offer structured and accessible resources to these emerging filmmakers. MAISHA is motivated by the belief that a film which explores the truths and idiosyncrasies of the specifically local often has the power to cross over and become significantly universal.br //blockquote/divbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-900608191117050139?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 17:04

  The African Seed Trade Association - AFSTA

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.afsta.org"img alt="http://www.afsta.org/images/afsta_text.gif" src="http://www.afsta.org/images/afsta_text.gif" //abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquote/blockquoteblockquote/blockquoteFrom Site:br /blockquotea href="http://www.afsta.org"The African Seed Trade Association/a arose out of a need to have a regional representative body for the seed industry, which could also serve to promote the development of private seed enterprises.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" span style="color:#400000;"Objectives/span/spanbr /ulliTo promote the use of improved quality seed, /liliTo strengthen communication with African seed industries and with the world, /liliTo facilitate establishment of national seed trade associations in Africa, /liliTo provide information to members, /liliTo interact with regional governments and NGO's involved in seed activities in order to promote the interests of the seed industry, /liliTo promote activities that lead to regulatory harmonization throughout Africa to facilitate movement of seed, and /liliTo develop a statistical database on African seed production and trade. /li/ulbr //blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-9085070559911795053?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 16:52

  Uganda: Renewable Energy-Powered Milk Coolers

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: justify;"spanWilliam Kisaalita of the University of Georgia discusses his project to test a new milk cooling system with a pilot group of 50 small-scale farmers to keep milk fresh overnight so it can be safely transported.br /br //spandiv style="text-align: center;"spanobject width="325" height="244"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0G3SNSlj98oamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;color1=0x234900amp;color2=0x4e9e00"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0G3SNSlj98oamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;color1=0x234900amp;color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"/embed/object/spanbr /span /span/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-670152853836088714?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• March 22, 2009
• 18:24

  African Economic Forum (AEF) - 2009

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  p align="center"a href="http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/aef/"img style="width: 390px; height: 147px;" src="http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/aef/images/AEFLOGO1.gif" alt="AEF" longdesc="http://sipa.columbia.edu/aef" //a/pp align="center"br //pp style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/aef/"AEF 2009/a will be held on Friday, March 27th and Saturday, March 28th at Columbia University in the City of New York. /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7567830438240915317?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• March 19, 2009
• 1:12

  AATF - African Agricultural Technology Foundation

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.aatf-africa.org/index.php"img style="width: 335px; height: 78px;" alt="http://www.aatf-africa.org/images/logo.jpg" src="http://www.aatf-africa.org/images/logo.jpg" //abr /br /br /div style="text-align: justify;"From site:br //divdiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"divThe a href="http://www.aatf-africa.org/index.php"African Agriculture Technology Foundation/a is a not-for-profit organisation designed to facilitate and promote public/private partnerships for the access and delivery of appropriate proprietary agricultural technologies for use by resource-poor smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa./div divbr /The Foundation is a one-stop-shop that provides expertise and know-how that facilitates the identification, access, development, delivery and utilisation of proprietary agricultural technologies./div/div/blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"div/div/div/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-4531953888476902090?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 1:08

  The Boma Fund - fund for nomadic communities in Northern Kenya

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.bomafund.org/"img style="width: 164px; height: 193px;" alt="http://www.bomafund.org/images/logo.jpg" src="http://www.bomafund.org/images/logo.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"spana href="http://www.bomafund.org/"The Boma Fund/a works with pastoral nomadic communities in Northern Kenya who recognize that their traditional way of life is no longer sustainable due to the change in the cycle of droughts and their increasing severity. /spanbr /br /div style="text-align: center;"object height="244" width="325"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IsIaJRpKNqQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IsIaJRpKNqQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="244" width="325"/embed/objectbr //div/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2281625433106588846?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 1:00

  CRB Africa - African credit ratings

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.crbafrica.com"img alt="http://www.crbafrica.com/layout/images/crb_logo3.gif" src="http://www.crbafrica.com/layout/images/crb_logo3.gif" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"From site:br //divdiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquote/blockquoteblockquote/blockquoteblockquoteCredit Reference Bureau Limited (a href="http://www.crbafrica.com"CRB/a) is an information solutions company. It uses the power of information to assist its subscribers to target prospective customers, manage existing trade relationships and identify opportunities for profitable growth.br /br /CRB also provides factual credit, identity and location information to businesses – for example banks, credit card companies, finance institutions and commercial enterprise.- to assist them in making accurate and responsible decisions when companies or individuals apply for cash or goods and services on credit. CRB also helps creditors guard against fraud, which is a growing and serious problem that ultimately affects all consumers.br /br //blockquotebr //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2290232548866264882?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 0:55

  CC Africa - African Ecotourism

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.ccafrica.com"img alt="http://www.ccafrica.com/images/new_landing/logo5.jpg" src="http://www.ccafrica.com/images/new_landing/logo5.jpg" //abr /a href="http://www.ccafrica.com"br /br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.ccafrica.com"CC Africa/a is one of Africa’s leading ecotourism company, committed to providing world-class experiences for discerning travellers, and to ongoing investment in sustainable conservation development and community empowerment.br /br /The own and operate 40 different properties in East and Central Africa.br /br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8413451959876251649?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 0:36

  Africa in Demand - African television show

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  About African in Demandbr /br /blockquoteFrom Site:br /a href="http://www.africaindemand.com/"br //adiv style="text-align: justify;"a href="http://www.africaindemand.com/"Africa In Demand/a™ the Televsion show was launched in June 2008 along with the Internet distribution network. Produced by Co Host Bisi Fagbohun along with Mavis Kubi bring issues ranging from entertainment, the arts, culture and current affairs affecting Africans on the continent and diaspora.br //divbr /br /div style="text-align: center;"object height="249" width="325"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SxLoeBoJoZoamp;border=1amp;color1=0xe1600famp;color2=0xfebd01amp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SxLoeBoJoZoamp;border=1amp;color1=0xe1600famp;color2=0xfebd01amp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="249" width="325"/embed/objectbr //div/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7308142716810090872?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• March 14, 2009
• 0:28

  Q drum - easy transportation of H2O

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.qdrum.co.za/index.php/home"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 128px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sbr6udPJBQI/AAAAAAAAAUM/2VanO1qjsgk/s400/blogshot28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312834386465981698" border="0" //abr /From site:br /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteThe a href="http://www.qdrum.co.za/index.php/home"Q Drum/a is a durable, donut shaped plastic container which when full holds 50 litres of water. Its uniqueness lies in the design of the longitudinal shaft or central hole, through which a rope is tied, to pull or roll the drum along all terrain types. Due to the low-density polyethylene it is made from, it is also practically indestructible and has no removable handles or other metal attachments that could detract from its intended purpose if lost or broken. p style="text-align: left;"The rope can be repaired on the spot or easily replaced by a leather thong, woven plant substance or any other appropriate material. In many rural areas around the world, even a hammer and nail are scarce commodities./pp style="text-align: center;"img alt="http://www.qdrum.co.za/images/stories/qdrum/qdrumshadow.jpg" src="http://www.qdrum.co.za/images/stories/qdrum/qdrumshadow.jpg" //p/blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8564966367758399619?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 0:18

  African Partners Medical - APM

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.africapartnersmedical.org/"img style="width: 379px; height: 99px;" alt="http://africapartnersmedical.org/images/cms/apmlogo.jpg" src="http://africapartnersmedical.org/images/cms/apmlogo.jpg" //abr /br /div style="text-align: justify;"From site:br /blockquote style="font-style: italic;"a href="http://www.africapartnersmedical.org/"Africa Partners Medical /a(APM) is a group of American and African doctors, nurses and other health care professionals committed to improving medical care in Africa. The faculty of Africa Partners Medical includes physicians and nurses from Mayo Clinic, Scott and White Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Stanford University Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, among others, who volunteer their time. Since 2000, APM has brought an annual medical education program to a total of more than 900 physicians, residents, nurses and emergency medical technicians in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, and Mali./blockquotebr //divdiv style="text-align: justify;"br //div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8798275886553605774?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 0:09

  Highland Tea Company

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  About a href="http://www.highlandteacompany.com/index.php"Highland Tea Company/abr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sbr2Vatbu_I/AAAAAAAAAUE/PRKbLmMsTxQ/s1600-h/blogshot27.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 193px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sbr2Vatbu_I/AAAAAAAAAUE/PRKbLmMsTxQ/s400/blogshot27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312829558244490226" border="0" //ablockquotebr /div style="text-align: justify;"The a href="http://www.highlandteacompany.com/index.php"Highland Tea Company/a, LLC was founded by Watiri and Wanja Michuki, Kenyan mother and daughter, to wholesale and retail Kenyan specialty teas.br /br /Watiri is a member of the small-scale farming community that collectively grows most of Kenya’s tea. She planted the first seedlings on her beautiful 30-acre tea garden (pictured below), which she affectionately called ‘Karurumo’- meaning 'Little Treasure' in the Kikuyu language. In 1991, she incorporated The Highland Tea Company in Kenya with a mission to grow and distribute only the finest premium teas and, in the process, provide her children with a solid education./div/blockquotebr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sbr2Vatbu_I/AAAAAAAAAUE/PRKbLmMsTxQ/s1600-h/blogshot27.jpg"/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7155426812680435047?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• March 13, 2009
• 23:50

  East Africa Capital Partners - EACP

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.eacp.co.ke"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 79px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/Sbr0Y9iFNCI/AAAAAAAAAT8/D1nqsb8zfkE/s400/blogshot26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312827420108469282" border="0" //abr /blockquote/blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteEast Africa Capital Partners (a href="http://www.eacp.co.ke"EACP/a) is a technology, media and telecommunications sector focus venture capital fund Manager investing in the greater Eastern Africa region. /blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5826626154430456904?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 23:15

  Tanzania Tourist Board - TTB

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  Take a look at Tanzania's Tourist Board tourism website. Very insightful for those interested in a vacation that involves wildlife and adventurous safari's.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tanzaniatouristboard.com/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 138px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SbrsC9_Xt9I/AAAAAAAAAT0/9YYPaNzSLE0/s400/blogshot24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312818246181173202" border="0" //abr /blockquoteFrom the a href="http://tanzaniatouristboard.com/"site/a:br /br /div style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-style: italic;"Tanzania captures the very essence of the African continent, and distills it into one country, an African Eden of natural riches and cultural wealth. Our country has inspired Hemingway and Livingstone, proudly given the word 'safari' to the global travel!/spanbr //div/blockquotebr /blockquote/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2768186180875211133?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• February 26, 2009
• 23:12

  Museke - African music site

   » ‎ Nubian Cheetah
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://museke.com/en/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 86px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SaciyazUkoI/AAAAAAAAATs/FBtmHV75u0A/s400/blogshot23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307248935462802050" border="0" //abr /a href="http://museke.com/en/"Museke/a seeks to have the largest online collection of African music. The site has a variety of different sounds from all over the continent.br /br /From the site:br /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotep The Museke project seeks to be the biggest database of African music lyrics and information. It also seeks to encourage discussion and accountability a style="background: transparent url [files.adbrite.com] repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_accountability" id="AdBriteInlineAd_accountability" target="_top"/afor African music in ways that would benefit society positively. It also involves the use of African languages on the internet a style="background: transparent url [files.adbrite.com] repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_internet" id="AdBriteInlineAd_internet" target="_top"/ato encourage more African language content. This will help a style="background: transparent url [files.adbrite.com] repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_help" id="AdBriteInlineAd_help" target="_top"/aus pay attention to the evolution of our culture from an entertainment a style="background: transparent url [files.adbrite.com] repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_entertainment" id="AdBriteInlineAd_entertainment" target="_top"/aand literary perspective, whilespan style="text-decoration: underline;"/spana href="http://click.nyx.adbrite.com/mb/click.php?sid=910967amp;banner_id=12735348amp;variation_id=1417552amp;uts=1235690047amp;cpc=302e3035303030303030amp;keyword_id=3078amp;inline=yamp;zk_id=39739886amp;ab=168362226amp;sscup=60da838999de808f5469ffa4f12ac2a0amp;sscra=95dff790e53b3072c90da9614c806ed0amp;ub=1163893814amp;guid=1d956ee2539c4259b48c7c320878c05camp;rs=amp;r=" style="background: transparent url [files.adbrite.com] repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_marketing" id="AdBriteInlineAd_marketing" target="_top"/a marketing our music, culture in an attractive way./p p The project would also allspan style="text-decoration: underline;"/spana href="http://click.nyx.adbrite.com/mb/click.php?sid=910967amp;banner_id=12739577amp;variation_id=1421469amp;uts=1235690046amp;cpc=302e3035303030303030amp;keyword_id=648202amp;inline=yamp;zk_id=39739886amp;ab=168362158amp;sscup=62bd3084047e5dcfd372b200ec5a07cfamp;sscra=95dff790e53b3072c90da9614c806ed0amp;ub=1163893814amp;guid=f378ddebce58fea6ec12f23cddb6c6e7amp;rs=amp;r=" style="background: transparent url [files.adbrite.com] repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_people" id="AdBriteInlineAd_people" target="_top"/aow people who regard Africa as their cultural neighbourhood to get a firm grip on their culture as well as others who will be interested in understanding it. The project combines the best of global technology, the will to market Africa and the love fa style="background: transparent url [files.adbrite.com] repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_love" id="AdBriteInlineAd_love" target="_top"/aor its ingenious and changing genres of music (culture)./p/blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3569215459967605913?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 22:52

  General Electric - Improving Healthcare in Africa and Beyond

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  spanGE's signature program in Africa aims to improve healthcare delivery for some of the world's most vulnerable populations by providing valuable expertise and equipment.br //spanbr /div style="text-align: center;"spanobject height="244" width="325"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/at6A393Wkesamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x2b405bamp;color2=0x6b8ab6"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/at6A393Wkesamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x2b405bamp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="244" width="325"/embed/object/spanbr /span/span/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-8927107610067985440?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 22:31

  Dambisa Moyo, Author Of Dead Aid

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  div style="text-align: justify;"Dambisa Moyo is a Global Economist at Goldman Sachs in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. A native of Zambia, Southern Africa, Dambisa holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard.br /br /Dambisa's new book, Dead Aid illustrates how some aid to Africa has decapitated Africa's growth.br /br //divbr /div style="text-align: center;"object height="295" width="380"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gBH47mByATcamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x234900amp;color2=0x4e9e00"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gBH47mByATcamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x234900amp;color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="380"/embed/objectbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3621812926359006397?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• February 24, 2009
• 5:41

  SOVEC - Social Venture Capital

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sovec.nl/index.html"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 88px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SaOJRFKlFFI/AAAAAAAAATk/AUftuGoWhPg/s400/blogshot22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306235712509908050" border="0" //aFrom their site:br /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotea href="http://www.sovec.nl/index.html"SOVEC/a is an investment fund set up by Dutch entrepreneurs, to invest in small and medium sized companies (SMEs) in Africa.br /br /SOVEC therefore supports local entrepreneurs by investing capital and committing its own network of entrepreneurs who are prepared to invest their time, energy, expertise and business contacts. This helps entrepreneurs in Africa to build their businesses and create job opportunities.br //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7152583648003580458?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 5:23

  Kenya - Lwala Community Alliance

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SaOFFKr96CI/AAAAAAAAATc/92rArOj897c/s1600-h/blogshot21.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 70px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SaOFFKr96CI/AAAAAAAAATc/92rArOj897c/s400/blogshot21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306231109787183138" border="0" //abr /br /div style="text-align: center;"object height="244" width="325"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ZNuwk4QjR8amp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ZNuwk4QjR8amp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="244" width="325"/embed/objectbr //divbr /div style="text-align: justify;"Witness a remarkable journey of two brothers who used their medical education, wisdom and intellect to build a hospital for their village in Kenya. Journey was made possible by the same village that they are helping...simply remarkable story of giving back to one's community./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-7257545546837609563?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 5:09

  Senegal - Locally Produced Biofuel Outboard Motor

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  div style="text-align: justify;"spanSaidou Ba of Mission Goorgoorlu speaks of his winning project which aims at improving living standards of 40 agricultural and fishing communities in Senegal by introducing affordable transportation to deliver their produce, using traditional vessels powered by locally produced biofuel.br /br //spandiv style="text-align: center;"spanobject height="244" width="325"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/58RQPFycsdYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/58RQPFycsdYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="244" width="325"/embed/object/spanbr /span/span/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-5679020655594665974?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 4:57

  Sheabutter Cottage - organic creams and oils from Fair Trade

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sheabuttercottage.co.uk/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 55px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SaN-TUw2uZI/AAAAAAAAATE/p0wuNPVk450/s400/blogshot17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306223656428812690" border="0" //abr /a href="http://www.sheabuttercottage.co.uk/"Sheabutter cottage/a markets and sells fair trade creams and cosmetics deriving from SheaButter, Palm Oil and other essential organic ingredients.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sheabuttercottage.co.uk/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SaOAIeGmZaI/AAAAAAAAATM/-07ajqinKRE/s400/blogshot18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306225668980630946" border="0" //adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-2602270030971999446?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div
• 4:46

  FARA - Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

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  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fara-africa.org/"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 106px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K3qrSxDxD5k/SaN8tO-KVoI/AAAAAAAAAS8/MO__mjmih20/s400/blogshot16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306221902527354498" border="0" //abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotea href="http://www.fara-africa.org/"FARA/a is the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, an umbrella organization bringing together and forming coalitions of major stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Africa. FARA complements the innovative activities of national, international and sub-regional research institutions to deliver more responsive and effective services to its stakeholders. It plays advocacy and coordination roles for agricultural research for development, while the national agricultural research systems (NARSs), advanced research institutions (ARIs) and international agricultural research centers (IARCs) develop improved technologies along the research-to-development continuum in their respective countries and coverage areas./blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8105692937470856718-3564676262654647398?l=nubiancheetah.blogspot.com'//div