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augusteen @augusteen (14) 21 Mar 08

It is believed that no university in Africa has up to 1 million books..Harvard University has 11 million Volumes.A nation without books is short of ideas short of the way forward. Africa can not move forward without an...

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augusteen Good to read you comments. very encouraging.We can work together others would join us.There are so many things possible with the internet.People in America and around Europe,Canada,Austrailia,throw books away or store them in the garage to gather dust with no...

28 Mar 08

augusteen @augusteen (14) 21 Mar 08

It is believed that no university in Africa has up to 1 million books..Harvard University has 11 million Volumes.A nation without books is short of ideas short of the way forward. Africa can not move forward without an...

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augusteen I agree with you on an international drive for books for Africa.Maybe we can start it.The journey of a thousand miles starts with a step.It takes just two to change the world, others would join us later.there used to be a group here in london that used to send...

21 Mar 08

augusteen @augusteen (14) 21 Mar 08

It is believed that no university in Africa has up to 1 million books..Harvard University has 11 million Volumes.A nation without books is short of ideas short of the way forward. Africa can not move forward without an...

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youdontsay @youdontsay (3497) • United States 3 Mar 08

". . . how do you describe an American administration that will spend $1 trillion on winning a war for Irqaqi oil while refusing to allocate any funds to reduce dependency on oil? For $1 trillion, the United States could have...

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augusteen For those interested in the fight against poverty contact Professor Muhammad Yunus,Grameen bank,mupur Two ,Dhaka 1216,Bangladesh fax:88028013559 emai:yunus@grameen.net website:www.grameen.com. His activities go beyond micro loans He welcomes ideas and...

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youdontsay @youdontsay (3497) • United States 3 Mar 08

". . . how do you describe an American administration that will spend $1 trillion on winning a war for Irqaqi oil while refusing to allocate any funds to reduce dependency on oil? For $1 trillion, the United States could have...

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augusteen Task may be right in saying there is no basis of the claim that less than one per cent of Nigerians are scam artists. I take my words back. But we should all aagree that not all nigerians are criminals. I am certainly not taking sides with scam artists and I...

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youdontsay @youdontsay (3497) • United States 3 Mar 08

". . . how do you describe an American administration that will spend $1 trillion on winning a war for Irqaqi oil while refusing to allocate any funds to reduce dependency on oil? For $1 trillion, the United States could have...

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augusteen Task do not adopt a holier than thou attitude.Americans have committed their own crimes in the past with slavery and the cold war in Africa. They had used african leaders as pawns in a political chess game. well you can not claim to be wiser than bill Clinton...

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youdontsay @youdontsay (3497) • United States 3 Mar 08

". . . how do you describe an American administration that will spend $1 trillion on winning a war for Irqaqi oil while refusing to allocate any funds to reduce dependency on oil? For $1 trillion, the United States could have...

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augusteen An alternative to oil would free the world of dictatorship in the middle east and Africa and it would make the poppulations like Nigeria(140 million) to use their brains to develop the country rather than oil which is currently fuelling corrruption.Its a great...

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maximax8 @maximax8 (31043) • United Kingdom 20 Feb 08

I think that it is very sad how poor some countries of the world are. Most of the poorest countries are in Africa. I saw a program about a man traveling around the world keeping as near to the Tropic of Capricorn as possible. He...

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augusteen If you have the time you should read the book CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY:social business as the foture of capitalism by Yunus Muhammad,economist,banker,social business man,winner world food prize,winner Nobel Prize for peace etc.30 years ago he started...

28 Feb 08