I am back in Kampala now. I have a deluge of information to dig through from the 1st East African Investment Conference. Actually, now that I think about it, I have a lot of posts …

The Rwandese Government is set to kick off the first ever East African Investment Conference later this month. According to the official registration site, the conference “is designed to showcase “Leveraging the East African Market …

I am writing in response to an article in the Monitor on August 5th 2006 by Timothy Kalyegira entitled “Why haven’t our PhDs caused devt in Uganda?” In this article, writer among others refers to …

So, what does it say about the state of the world, that the fastest growing and most active recruitment of Africans is by security contractors on the big land mine that used to be Iraq? …

The BBC Africa web site has posted this week’s image gallery. Featured are a couple of photos I found at once humorous and gut-wrenchingly sad. Humorous because the subject matter clearly illustrated our previous frustrations …

Over the next few weeks, Project Diaspora will be covering the plight of Uganda’s aloe vera farmers who are trying to find international markets for their product. Part 1 of Project Aloe is an overview …

When one is hungry and desires a chicken to eat, it’s logical that one would kill said chicken and eat it. But say one were hungry and possessed half a brain. One would realize that …

Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers, via Yahoo! News
Sat Mar 1, 4:50 PM ET
KIGALI, Rwanda — When President Bush came here last month on his five-nation Africa tour, he paid a solemn visit to the site where …

Over the next few weeks, Project Diaspora will be covering the plight of Uganda’s aloe vera farmers who are trying to find international markets for their product. Part 1 of Project Aloe is an overview …

Funny, the world is always looking for ways to feed Africa, but these days Africa seems to set to feed the world! Just goes to show that when given the opportunity to take care of …

It is unprecedented. Only in Zimbabwe does one get arrested for laughing at the poor quality of Chinese goods. You can get away with an inward laughter in public or laughing behind closed doors in …

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Great post by White African on ways to address the coming financial hit that all this violence will wreak on Kenya. Do you have ideas on how to leverage technology to make …

Ever wonder why it costs so much money to send money back home? What the hell is so difficult about taking money from one person and giving the same amount of money to another person? …

It was a murmur of voices, hush and impatient. The shuffle of heavily-laden luggage being dragged across the dusty stone floors. A muffle in the speaker system barked orders. A long line of legs streamed …

I called one of my friends who lives in Boston a few days ago. He had just traveled to Kenya just in time for the chaos caused by recent presidential election fiasco.
As he spoke I …

Uganda’s Andrew Mwenda was at TED this year. The video was a gold find as he clearly touches on a few key points on African Aid that we’ve written about here at Project Diaspora. He lays the …

OY! All you… Out there… guess what? The banks are coming for you!
So… here’s the deal. All over the world, banks and bankers are looking at the poorest of the poor and seeing dollar signs …

So my gut has always told me that throwing money at a problem never solves anything. I look at all the aid money that has been thrown around Africa, Central America, actually anywhere…. ever. …

Geothermal power. Today a lightbulb went off in my head… Months ago I heard this story and thought… “what a shame, destroying all that natural beauty and losing that tourist money!” Quickly followed by, “but …