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That sinking price makes a huge difference in West Africa, where more than 10 million people depend directly on cotton to pay for food, school fees and housing. The crop provides Burkina Faso and Mali with half of all their export earnings; in Benin it accounts for 75%. "If there is no cotton growing in Mali, Mali doesn't work," says Demba K�b�, an adviser to that country's Minister of Agriculture...
...That sinking price makes a huge difference in West Africa, where more than 10 million people depend directly on cotton to pay for food, school fees and housing. The crop provides Burkina Faso and Mali with half of all their export earnings; in Benin it accounts for 75%. "If there is no cotton growing in Mali, Mali doesn't work," says Demba K?b?, an adviser to that country's Minister of Agriculture...
...Friday afternoon, the eight-time City Councillor and nine-time campaign veteran never once looks down at it. He just keeps on talking, unfazed.Reeves, decked out in a dark suit and yellow-and-blue striped tie, is chatting with CCTV host Laura Montgomery about the year he spent in Benin after graduating from Harvard in 1972 and about the role of the traditional king in Africa.He also drops in mentions of the city’s new charter school, the achievement gap that has scarred the Cambridge public schools for years, and a citywide construction boom.His years of work...
...recently bought Angelique Kidjo’s latest CD, Oyaya. For the first few weeks, I couldn’t stop listening to it! Angelique is a West African singer from Benin. I’ve enjoyed her music for a while now, but her last CD is especially awesome because it fuses incredible African and Latin rhythms that make it impossible not to get up and dance! You’ll find yourself getting jiggy to your head phones on the way to class.To satisfy my classical craving, I’ve also rediscovered “Ein Heldenleben?...
...aluminum bottle tops. Mozambican sculptor Gon?alo Mabunda domesticates assault rifles and other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Ch?ri Samba depicts a starving globe throwing up the American continents, some guns and a tank. Romuald Hazoum? from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman and a pirate. Elsewhere as part of "Africa 05," the British Museum and other venues will present the continent's history, identity...