Magatte Wade and Michael Strong
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Magatte Wade was born in Senegal, educated in Germany and France, and launched her entrepreneurial career in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she co-founded Adina World Beverages after working closely with Silicon Valley start-ups. She is fluent in, and conducts business in, Wolof, the predominant indigenous language of Senegal, French, and English. She may be contacted at magattewZ [AT] gmail [DOT] com.

Michael Strong is the CEO of FLOW, a non-profit he co-founded with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market. FLOW is devoted to promoting entrepreneurial solutions to world problems. Michael and John just published their first FLOW book, Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World Problems through Wiley & Sons. He may be contacted at Michael [AT] flowidealism [DOT] org.

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Africa: the New Edge, the New Green

Posted March 25, 2009 | 18:21:17 (EST)

Progressives rightly want to help those less fortunate than themselves, and most of the population of Africa are certainly less fortunate. Twenty-five of the world's thirty poorest nations are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, a disproportionate share of the world's violent conflict has taken place in Africa; the recent Congo civil...

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