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By Kay Steiger - Nov 5th, 2007 at 2:01 pm EST

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Via Afro-Netizen. Mukoma Wa Ngugi had a column this weekend in the L.A. Times that called saving Africa "fashionable" of late:

Hollywood celebrities are adopting African babies. Bono and Bob Geldof sing for Africa. And Bill Gates, former heads of state Bill Clinton and Tony Blair and a sprinkling of former World Bank officials have probably caused traffic jams there as they tout their campaigns.

Put aside the irony of Clinton doing little for Africa when holding the most powerful office in the world and now, as a private citizen, wanting to save the whole continent. In the "save Africa" caldron, you will find two active ingredients missing: Africans and modern African history.

It's worth reading. It's good to see someone pointing out that while saving Africa might be hot right now, it takes nuanced understanding of history and sociology to really dig into how to really ease suffering in a permanent way there.

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What Can Ten Billion Dollars Buy You? One Hell Of An Abstinence Campaign!

By JonathanGarro - Jun 7th, 2007 at 12:41 pm EDT

In days where the federal government spends trillions of dollars, where it costs 6,300 dollars a second to conduct a war, and where it costs hundreds of millions just to run for president, we can become jaded about just what ten billion dollars looks like. I often imagine what I would do if I had ten billion dollars. I haven't decided on anything yet, but let's just say the idea of having a lifetime supply of tacos isn't out of the question. Near the bottom of that very long list in my mind is conducting any kind of abstinence campaign in Africa in an attempt to curb AIDS, (that campaign is number 42,123 on my list, just ahead of buying a lifetime supply of spagettiO's).

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