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Maker Faire Africa brought its yearly pan-African innovation fair to Lagos, Nigeria this year. It was three days of exhibitions, workshops, D.I.Y. demonstrations, a public “maker space” and enthusiastic celebration of[…]
Economy · Technology · World Affairs
by Kola Tubosun
On “being” the relative of a dead prince
Culture and Society · Technology
It is 50 years and Nigeria, like every other country craving for a change in its affairs, has witnessed series of civil demonstrations in all its known forms: sit-ins, arm-in-arm[…]
Culture and Society · Politics · Technology
The news that President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria had created a Facebook page eventually got to me through Google Buzz where comments had been made to the effect that the[…]
Culture and Society · General · Health · Technology · World Affairs
I thought I’d have you listen in on this IM conversation I had with a friend from medical school, Simon Adebola, about science, science illiteracy and biomedical science in Nigeria/Africa.[…]
Culture and Society · General · Politics · Technology
29/01/10 – 05/02/10 Yes, we get it. Apple’s soon-to-be-released tablet, iPad, sounds uncomfortably similar to a popular female sanitary product. Jokes over. Though, Kola Tubosun points out the less obvious[…]
The word ‘blog’, ‘blogger’ or ‘blogging’ come into existence with the advent of Web 2.0. Websites such as www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com provided a free means (e.g. www.spiritofjesus.blogspot.com or www.charmingff.wordpress.com) for[…]
Technological advance hasn’t exactly been the buzz-phrase in West Africa during the last decade, but the history books will most certainly use it regularly to refer to the immense leaps[…]
I recently went to BarCampAfricaUK here in London. For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is, it’s generally a gathering of people around a topic, where all[…]
Culture and Society · General · Politics · Technology · World Affairs
The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #1 The following are some interesting stories we have found this week from the Nigerian blogosphere. We plan on featuring such links every Thursday with[…]