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Oyo: Angelique Kidjo
Written by Matthew Forss
Angelique sings mostly in Beninese languages, but Oyo is essentially a masterpiece of global pop after more than 20 years in the music industry.
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Timbuktu Chronicles: Out of Africa
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Entrepreneur Emeka Okafor searches for innovative home-grown African ventures in technology and business that could be useful and sustainable in many countries.
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Broken Atlas is the virtual woodshed of Christopher Frey, a Toronto-based writer, editor and filmmaker.
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Hong Kong Confidential
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Sometimes opinionated and always insightful, Ma blogs about political issues, Asian society and the life of an expat in the motherland.
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Portfolios of the Poor: Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day examines strategies the world's poor use to make ends meet and the flaws in the financial tools available to them.
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A liberal-minded career woman from Manhattan, becomes editor of the Yemen Observer and steps into a whole new world of cross-cultural differences.
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This compilation shows what an international phenomenon tango has become.
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Los Angeles based Dengue Fever stages their first tour in Cambodia, the homeland of lead singer, Chhom Nimol, whose powerful, pure voice sails over heavy psychedelic/garage sounds.
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Modern-day Brazilian remixes of Angolan pop music from the 60s and 70s.
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Stories and tips from Idealist.org in Latin America.
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A chance friendship between an international volunteer and a carpet seller in Uzbekistan marks the start of a seven-year fair-trade project that still resonates in the community today.
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Angola: Mike Stead and Sean Rorison
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Claiming to be the first Angola guide written in English, this book does not gloss over the challenges of visiting a country that has just emerged from 30 years of civil war.
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