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Follow Your Passion

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Philanthropy, Books, Michigan State University, Africa, Jobs, Passion, Global Motherhood, Uganda, Idi Amin, Home News

Why did I leave a job with excellent pay, retirement benefits, medical insurance and career advancement to work for a small non-profit? It's called passion.

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WATCH: Forgotten Films That Capture The Nile

Dan Morrison | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: International Destinations, Mountains of the Moon, Sudan, Egypt, Africa, Slidepollajax, The Mummy, Travel Video, Uganda, Africa Travel, Movies, Idi Amin, Destinations, Travel News

Divorce your gaze from the spray-tanned Elizabeth Taylor and her cast of genuflecting thousands. For a cinematic glimpse of what life was like along the Nile in the glorious old and not-so-old days, check out these overlooked classics.

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My Trip to Kampala

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts Management, Uganda, Entebbe, Hotel Serena, Sinclair Lewis, Kampala, Africa, Arts, Idi Amin, National Theatre of Uganda, Kennedy Center, Travel, Teaching, Travel News

One student called the session "revolutionizing" and almost all came up to me to tell me how much they had learned and how this new way of thinking about arts management was so helpful.

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As African Tyrants Fall

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi, Orange Revolution, Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia Protests, Africa Nonviolent Revolution, Velvet Revolution, Ethiopia Economic Crises, Ahimsa, Mohamed Ghannouchi, Quit India, Ethiopia, Mengistu Hailemariam, Satyagraha, Tunisian People?S Revolution, Mohandas Gandhi, Saudi Arabia, Bulcha Demeksa, African Dictators, Africa Passive Resistance, Meles Zenawi, Idi Amin, Constitutional Democratic Rally Party, Egypt Protests, World News

The Tunisian people's revolution provides practical insights into the prerequisites for dismantling dictatorships in Africa. The first lesson is that when dictatorships end, their end could come with either a bang or a whimper.

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Marhaba Ben Ali! U.S. Ally Houses Tunisia's Dictator

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tunis, Dictator, Berlusconi, Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Morocco, France, Pakistan, Italy, U.S., Saudi Arabia, Idi Amin, Ben Ali, Nawaz Sharif, White House, Egypt, United States, Pervez Musharraf, Karima El Mahroug, Uganda, Sarcozy, Egypt Protests, World News

Good ol' Saudi Arabia. If you're a corrupt and fleeing Sunni despot, you'll always have a home in Saudi. Just ask their latest refugee, the very recently former President of Tunisia, Mr. Zine El Abedine Ben Ali.

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From Idi Amin to Al-Bashir: A Critical Moment for International Criminal Justice

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Idi Amin Uganda, Sudan, Africa, Criminal Court of Justice, Icc, Al-Bashir's Sudan, Uganda, Idi Amin, International Criminal Court, World News

With a number of outstanding arrest warrants and many more countries on the cusp of becoming active ICC investigations, the system of international criminal justice is at a crossroads.

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In Iraq, Women Entrepreneurs Starting a New Kind of Insurgency

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

After spending $50 billion, now the U.S. wants Iraq to take the lead in rebuilding itself. Several experts told me recently they want Iraq's women to play a prominent role in rebuilding the nation's crippled economy. Why women?

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Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption

Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michela Wrong, Kenya, Corruption, Kibaki, It's Our Turn to Eat, Githongo, African Leaders, Mobutu Sese Seko, Africa, Frederick Chaluba, Robert Mugabe, Sani Abacha, John Githongo, Idi Amin, World News

Wrong's new book, It's Our Turn To Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower, confronts the question of African corruption head on and finds there's plenty of blame to go around.

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Time for Yankees to Say Goodbye to A-Rod

Matt Littman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steroids, Lindsay Lohan, Madonna, Selena Roberts, George Foster, Red Sox, Alex Rodriguez, Jim Jones, A-Rod, Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire, Joltin' Joe, Brian Cashman, Yankees, Jessica Biel, Idi Amin, Bambino, Entertainment News

Baseball engenders great nicknames, and the New York Yankees, the most storied franchise in all of sports, certainly have had their fair share. There's the Babe, Joltin' Joe, Mr. October, and Bitch Tits.

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Where Are They Now? Descendents Of 10 Former Dictators

Mental Floss | Stacy Conradt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alina Fernandez, Ferdinand Marcos, Joseph Stalin, Dictator, Efrain Rios, Alessandra Mussolini, Italy, Marko Milosevic, Dictatorship, Dictators, Ayesha Qaddafi, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Guatemala, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Africa, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Valentin Ceau?Escu, Zury Rios Sosa, Russia, Ferdinand Martin ?Borgy? Manotoc, Benito Mussolini, Faisal Wangita, Slobodan Milosovic, Idi Amin, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Nicolae Ceau?Escu, World News

1. Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of Benito Mussolini's son and his first wife, Anna Maria Scicolone (who also happened to be Sophia Loren's siste...

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What Obama Will Do for Africa: A Conversation with Salim Amin

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muslim World, Video Journalism, Salim Amin, Last King of Scotland, Cuban Missile Crisis, Somalia, News Xchange, Media, Arab World, Reuters, Ethiopia, Gordon Brown, Saudi Arabia, Zanzibar, Mohamed Amin, Ethiopian Famine, Tanzania, Bob Geldof, Danny Glover, Africa, Somali Pirates, Palestine, Barack Obama, Tom Brokaw, New Media, Israel, Sudan, India, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Idi Amin, Rwanda, a24, World News

At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.

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