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A social media revolution that cannot be ignored!
by Dickson Igwe
Social media, this July 2012, increasingly influences private, public, and corporate life, and to a greater extent. In Western society, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, and others, are the new technological platforms, increasingly surpassing email, online messaging, and direct website access, as most popular, and one stop online applications. These are virtual communities, critically impacting real communities and societies, in real time. Increasingly, social digital platforms are becom
AFRICA: land of the rising sun
By Dickson Igwe
2007 saw the start of the Great Recession in the West, which began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an old, established, and powerful Investment bank on New York’s Wall Street. This collapse, the largest bankruptcy in US history, saw Lehman’s 600 billion dollars of managed assets turn to sand, when it was revealed the company was holding huge amounts of bad housing loans.
AFRICA rising!
By DICKSON IGWE
For West Indians, AFRICA- the continent of origin of the majority black Caribbean population- is a synonym for, the Gold Coast, the River Nile, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Sahara Desert; but sadly, also, for despotism, war, poverty, and disease.
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