t have many opportunities to record and distribute their music. Wired for Sound , a mobile recording studio is touring northern Mozambique, seeks to change that. The team of the founding member of the South African band Freshlyground , Simon Attwell, radio producer Kim Winter, and Freshlyground guitarist Julio Sigauque, who was born in Maputo, are working to record young musical talent and explore...
t include many vital fruits, vegetables or animal products. HarvestPlus as part of the CGIAR research programme on agriculture for nutrition and health, has promoted the selective breeding of staple food crops to provide more essential micronutrients as a new potentially important strategy in the fight against micronutrient malnutrition. This 'selective breeding' is known as biofortification. Though...
s future with five more years under Zanu-PF With the dust settling following the heavily disputed elections , Zimbabweans are getting used to the idea – whether in hope or despair – that Robert Mugabe will be in power for some time yet and that there is now a rejuvenated Zanu-PF with a super-majority in parliament. This much is clear. But much remains unclear. What will become of defeated opposition...
s request in 2011. The findings of this review offer useful lessons on how a country can kick start growth through FDI, but also highlight the pitfalls which may prevent investment from yielding sustainable development outcomes. When Mozambique emerged from two successive wars in 1992, its first priority was to convince investors that it was open for business. Key to the turnaround was macroeconomic...
s opening remark to me, not said with any malice, just as a statement of fact. Iciness isn't really his defining characteristic; just matter-of-factness. He answers questions honestly, but without adornment; there are only occasional shafts of expansiveness or humour, as with his reply when I ask whether the fact he has been married four times suggests he is difficult to live with. "It shows I am...
Visit to bedside of critically ill statesman prompts South Africa's president to call off journey to neighbouring country The office of the South African president said on Wednesday he had visited a gravely ill Nelson Mandela in hospital, and has decided to cancel a visit he had planned to make to Mozambique on Thursday. A statement from the office of Jacob Zuma, the president, said he went to see...
s capital, are expensive, European-style bars and restaurants with sophisticated names like Cafe Continental, Nautilus, 1908 and Mundos. And the residential houses and flats in the capital of this southern African nation are a flabbergasting and bewildering array of 1960s modernist and art deco icons, mixed with new-money skyscrapers. Further away in the new, Chinese-built airport in Maputo, which...
s G8, 'helping' Africans looks suspiciously like grabbing their resources One of the stated purposes of the Conference of Berlin in 1884 was to save Africans from the slave trade. To discharge this grave responsibility, Europe's powers discovered, to their undoubted distress, that they would have to extend their control and ownership of large parts of Africa. In doing so, they accidentally encountered...
To celebrate Africa day on the anniversary of the birth of the Organisation of African Unity, 25 May 1963, we have put together this quiz. No Googling now, says David Smith David Smith Judith Soal ...