Dying for Lack of Knowledge (0)
4/28/12 •
By Cheryl Rettig Research clearly shows that people prefer to buy products and services in their own languages.1 This is the reason that so many businesses have undertaken translation and localization projects to transform their websites and documents from English into the native language(s) of their target markets. This seems like a pretty basic [...]
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The Last Resort: A Film-maker’s Journey (0)
2/25/12 •
By Isa-Lee Jacobson If I’d known what the next three years would be like, would I have taken it on? Who knows? Hindsight is a curse and isn’t that the point: that we don’t know what the future holds and so we’re given the choice to plunge headlong into the Great Unknown or stare fearfully [...]
Urban Africa by numbers (0)
1/02/12 •
By Edward Paice Everyone knows that Nairobi’s Kibera district is the largest ‘informal settlement’, or slum, in sub-Saharan Africa. At least, they used to know. Politicians, journalists, NGOs and urban planning professionals routinely declared that 700,000 – 1,000,000 people lived in Kibera. But when the district was geo-statistically mapped for the first time in 2009 its population [...]
Walking the City with Dinaw Mengestu & Teju Cole (0)
1/12/12 •
By Jenny Doubt ‘Our memories… are like a river cut off from the ocean. With time they will slowly dry out in the sun, and so we drink and drink and drink and we can never have our fill.’ (Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, 9.) James Joyce played one of my first [...]
The middle born syndrome (0)
1/11/12 •
By Vera Bukachi It is widely agreed that the speed and growth of cities is a very real and present issue. The megacity in particular – African cities like Lagos and Cairo, with more than 10 million people – evoke imagery associated with rapid urbanisation: the proliferation of crowded slums, the chronic shortage of amenities [...]
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