By giving peace a chance, we give millions and millions of Africans a chance.
And while his achievements have made him a success story that young Ethiopians can aspire to, Alemseged's efforts to create a positive impact on young Africans are just a small step toward his ultimate goals.
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"I don't apologize for saying that what drove me as a young man, before I decided we need to embrace a new vision, was a quest to bring justice for black South Africans in a way which would not -- that's what I believed then -- destroy the justice to which my people were entitled, " de Klerk said last week on CNN.
In the 1950s Anthony Allison, a British biochemist, observed that Africans who carry a single copy of the genetic mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia are protected against malaria.
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But Tom Boere delivered a crushing blow to the hopes of the West Africans with a 70th minute header.
London is a magnet for Africans and has been for some years.
The home team lost 4-2 on aggregate, giving the West Africans a chance to qualify for the finals in Swaziland.
But this is ultimately a question that Africans must ask Africans.
Kamkwamba is part of a generation of Africans who are not waiting for their governments or aid groups to come to their rescue, according to the author.
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But overall, the response engendered was a fascinating snapshot of faith in the continent, and also of a desire for Africans to be represented better by one of the world's largest, and oldest faiths.
Following apartheid, a generation of South Africans were able to travel and with that has come a wave of well-traveled winemakers who, having seen the potential of both Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah overseas, have returned home with a fresh perspective.
"I think people need to remember that my grandfather played a huge role -- and not only him, many other South Africans played a huge role -- to get us where we are now, " she added.
Ponting was given a standing ovation by the 7, 000 crowd at the WACA ground, and the South Africans performed a guard of honor as he went to the crease for his final innings.
It is a different story among black Africans, where children born to two black parents are three and a half times as numerous as children with one white parent.
His venture began in a Jamaican restaurant in 1990 when he jotted down on a napkin plans for informing Africans about AIDS. The Ethiopian-born lawyer and son of a diplomat then set out for a conference in Torremolinos, Spain, where he convinced 127 countries to grant him 25 MHz of the L-band, a slice of the 1000 MHz spectrum.
On the short list this year were two South Africans, a Congolese and a Zimbabwean.
Unfortunately, the team did not have a suitable group of Africans available for study.
It also noticed that middle-class Africans had a penchant for products that project pride in African traditions.
This makes the model unduly dependent on foreign aid, a common complaint of Africans about many Western-inspired development projects.
Doddy is seeing a growing number of Africans go back to the continent.
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After all, one in five black South Africans was a Zulu, by far the largest ethnic group in the population.
Co-founder Anyanwu tells me that she likes to think of Afroterminal as a virtual terminal connecting Africans from across the globe.
It is rather an irritating read, often falling into the self-glamorising and self-pity that can be a feature of white Africans.
This week, Mr Zapatero was mobbed by Africans at a refugee centre.
In 2011, South Africans got a rare glimpse of him when he voted in local municipal elections at his home in Johannesburg.
The date has been designated by UNESCO as Slavery Remembrance Day, a reminder that enslaved Africans were the main agents of their own liberation.
Some people suggest reducing the number of official languages to a more manageable three: English, Afrikaans and Zulu, the mother tongue of nearly a quarter of South Africans.
English-based Emmanuel Eboue and Didier Zokora worked tirelessly for Ivory Coast but the Africans lacked a finishing touch in the absence of Chelsea pair Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou.
There the South Africans suffered a heavy defeat.
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