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		<title>The Cult of Having Versus The City of Being -Updated</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2010/06/the-cult-of-having-versus-the-city-of-being-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mhagos</dc:creator>
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		<title>Speculators Behind Incoming Global Surge in Food Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2010/05/daily-kos-speculators-behind-incoming-global-surge-in-food-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008 I wrote two little noticed diaries about speculative buying that helped to drive food prices higher (here  and here), and surprise, surprise, our friends from Goldman Sachs are well represented in this mix of global finance companies.

Two years later, the world food market is still seriously exposed to speculators artificially driving up prices and worsening the risks of malnutrition, and according to one of the world's leading agricultural researchers, Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (von Brown was one of the first to write about flawed regulatory regimes in banking and finance driving up food prices) an even bigger food crisis is looming, exacerbated as well by climate change. A visit to his site is well worth your time as he speaks eloquently about food and water.]]></description>
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		<title>Nkrumah&#8217;s Tears‏</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/09/nkrumahs-tears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[africa at a crossroads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africa's political future]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is rare these days to have successful Hollywood productions that are six hours long. American attention spans are simply not equipped to weather such torture. I was therefore surprised at the success of the movie John Adams. To my relief I later learnt that the six hours were divided into one-hour episodes and shown on HBO before they were sold on CD. It was well worth it. The movie provides wonderful insights into the foundations of the US polity and democratic institutions while telling a personal story. I will not say much about the movie so as not to ruin the experience for those who may choose to watch it.]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Dissonance</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/09/cognitive-dissonance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mhagos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[modern problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[…a low tolerance for cognitive dissonance leads most propagators of falsehood to self-deception; they tend to say what they believe, having first come to believe what they say.

“Cognitive dissonance is a condition first proposed by the psychologist Leon Festinger in 1956, relating to his hypothesis of cognitive consistency. Cognitive dissonance is a state of opposition between cognitions. Cognitive dissonance is a perceived inconsistency between two cognitions in which the person believes one thing but then acts in a different way from what they believed. For the purpose of cognitive dissonance theory, cognitions are defined as being any element of knowledge, attitude, emotions, belief or value, as well as a goal, plan, or an interest. In brief, the theory of cognitive dissonance holds that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the human mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to minimize the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions,” since it is very hard to live with cognitive dissonance.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cult of Having Versus  The City of Being</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/09/the-cult-of-having-versus-the-city-of-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mhagos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Smith summed up the vile maxim of the elite class as follows (back in 1776): “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” To be sure, there was only contempt in the US for the “vile maxim” during the 19th century among industrial workers (including the lively and vibrant working class press), who bitterly condemned the advance of the Industrial Revolution and much of what it entailed, more concisely, the “‘New Spirit of the Age’: gain wealth, forgetting all but self.” This would have been inconceivable under conditions of brotherly love, solidarity and subsequent equality of condition (not just opportunity), which is a democratic imperative.]]></description>
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		<title>African Food</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/07/african-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/07/african-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can trust neither the rainy season sky nor babies’ bottoms. [Ethiopia] 

Ethiopians have been farming for millennia. They have also faced severe food shortages for about as long. Reliance on natural rainfall for farming is at times similar to gambling in a casino – except with literally deadly consequences when one loses. This begs the question of why these people who have historically innovated in all manners of technology have not been able to simply copy modern agricultural methods from others to achieve food security in recent times. 

If you haven’t heard already they are about to do so. Well sort of; they are going to start by using their land and labor to achieve food security for the Saudi’s first. They are not alone. Since 2004, 2.5 million hectares of African land has been snapped up by the wealthy of our world. That is equivalent to 138 farms the size of the largest one in the world located in north western Canada. The pace of land acquisition is accelerating in 2009 and the scramble is on. But who are the combatants and what do they really want? ]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates of the Horn</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/05/pirates-of-the-horn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mamushm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[East Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of piracy has made a sensational comeback in popular culture and world politics in the last several years. Hollywood has cashed in millions of dollars popularizing the old mischief. I have attended enough pirate themed children birthday parties to start to consider pirates lovable rascals.]]></description>
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		<title>Shoot the Messenger</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/05/shoot-the-messenger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mamushm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[africa's problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[governmental agencies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 12, 2009, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released a report showing that same air cargo companies transporting humanitarian aids to Africa also funneled arms into the same volatile parts of the continent.  The research is performed by two British nationals with former ties to governmental and non-governmental organizations. ]]></description>
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		<title>Motherland -እናት ሀገር</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/01/motherland-%e1%8a%a5%e1%8a%93%e1%89%b5-%e1%88%80%e1%8c%88%e1%88%ad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mamushm</dc:creator>
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