As an Ethiopian journalist who now lives in Seattle, Washington State, I also would like to say congratulations for your pioneering work on creating an Africa
Almanac. What a superb job!
Thank you for providing us with a rich resource material.
Abraha Belai
Seattle, Washington, USA
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October 5, 2002
The Africa Records pages
are a magnificent example of hard work and display. However, it's very difficult to use all this information.
As well as the display, why not put it all in an Excel spreadsheet format. Countries as rows, with all the
information in many columns. No tricks, graphics or fills. Just an information spreadsheet:
Sensible type, just a large header row, then same sized rows, figures and dates in consistent style, so that it can then
downloaded and sorted 1,001 ways, extra columns added if required, to get the answers one wants.
I tried to copy it into a spreadsheet format but there were too many complications.
Michael Williams
London, England
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October 2, 2002
As an old boy of Kings' College, Lagos, I think it is my responsibility to call to your notice the omission of this unique
Nigerian icon.
Kings' College, Lagos has been the pioneering high/ secondary school in Nigeria. It was founded in 1909 in the tradition of Eton College, London.
I appreciate the efforts on your website. Keep up the
good work. I am sure the rest of Africa will be proud of your efforts.
Akpene Eshemokhai
Lagos, Nigeria
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September 27, 2002
I am looking for a place where
I can find what happened in Africa and particularly South Africa in the year 1939. Anything of interest from births to deaths, from political to social events, sporting, cultural events, decisions, anything at all would
be valuable.
Terence A. Saayman
Johannesburg, South Africa
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September 25, 2002
I would like to submit www.dipa.co.za for Africa's top 50 site.
Blake C Woodhams
Johannesburg, South Africa
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September 25, 2002
It is not that I am blowing my own trumpet, but one school that surely deserves to be on the top 20 list of
High Schools in Africa is Kenya's Starehe Boys Centre.
The school which incidentally happens to be my alma mater
is an institution that puts emphasis on not just academic excellence but in the creation of a well educated human being, and many of its graduates are proof of this.
The Director, Dr Griffin continues to devote his
life and energy to the enlightenment and education of his boys. Lenga Juu.
Charles Wachira
Tokyo, Japan
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September 23, 2002
I am writing from London as a
researcher for the Virgin Health and Travel Guide, a book due to be published in April 2003.
I need to find the contact details for the main hospitals in: Botswana, Ghana, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi,
Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
I also need the telephone numbers of the emergency services in all those countries (such as police, fire and
ambulances). I appreciate that not all these countries will have such numbers, and in their absence, are there air ambulance emergency services?
Kate Weinberg
London, United Kingdom
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September 23, 2002
I was visiting the website. Thank you a lot for the work you are doing to keep us up dated.
In the list of the top 10 hospital, I wondering where
for instance do Lacor Hospital and Gulu Independent hospital fall. Is it possible to rate some of these easily accessible hospitals?
Thank you very much and keep up the spirit.
Richard Odong
Save the Children Norway - Uganda
Kampala, Uganda
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September 20, 2002
Paarl Boy's High (of which I am an Old Boy) is located in Paarl (30 miles from Cape Town), not
Pretoria.
Bennie van der Merwe
Cape Town, South Africa
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September 10, 2002
I am a college student in Wichita and I have a paper due on North Africa. I am
having trouble finding some information. I know this is a wide topic but I need to know about the religions, politics, economics, cultures, ethnicity, and extreme diversities of this region. Can you help me? If not, can
you direct me to a web site with this information.
Melissa Corcoran
Wichita, Kansas, USA
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September 8, 2002
I am fortunate to have visited this site on the day it was launched on December 2, 2000.
That you continue to deliver consistently is amazing!
Alan Kasujja
London, England
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September 6, 2002
Just a quick word to let you know that we in Anguilla, West Indies (www.anguillalife.com) are using your site to follow events across Africa.
We recognise the historical connection
between the 19 million Blacks in the islands of the Caribbean, the 65 million Blacks next door in Brazil, and the 20 million Blacks in North America with the vast African continent.
We moreover are trying to educate
ourselves from an African perspective on our roots and present African ties.
Keep up the good work.
C. Bryan
Anguilla, West Indies
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August 30, 2002
Could you please give me some information regarding migration in Republic of Congo?
In other words, the people of Congo, when they want to leave their country, where do they go?
Ernesto de la Garza
Monterrey, Mexico
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August 30, 2002
I was wondering if you had any biographical information on Dr. Theonest K. Mutabingwa who was
featured on your Almanac website
as head of a malaria research team that has tested new malaria drugs.
I need to know only simple things--such as where and when he was born, where he grew up, and what city and country he now lives in. I am writing a
small profile about him as part of a geography book to be published by Rosen Publishing Company in New York City.
Do you know where I might find this information?
Thank you.
Wendy Vierow
New Paltz, NY, USA
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August 28, 2002
This is a great website! A real tribute to Africa. I would like to say that I have long been a great admirer of Timothy Kalyegira, mainly
because I agree with him on many issues concerning the demise of our great continent.
Africans need to pull together and lift the continent to its rightful position on the world stage. Unfortunately, I have only just
chanced upon this website! I intend to forward its address to all my friends and colleagues immediately.
Keep it up! I also think a chat room on this website would not be bad idea.
Dr. Lorna Barungi
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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August 28, 2002
We are very keen to work in South Africa and I got your details from the South African Consulate in New Delhi. I would be happy if
you could provide me the complete addresses of the top 20 hospitals, which you have mentioned along with the names of the concerned people.
Ranjana Maitra
Mumbai, India
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August 26, 2002
How are you doing? I really hope all is well with you. Got to checkout your site and I must say I'm floored! The colours were awesome, did you pick them out yourself? I look forward to being a
regular visitor so you'd better keep that site running, huh?Amanda Onapito
Kampala, Uganda
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August 22, 2002
Bravo on your efforts at Africa Almanac. However, I think
you need more balance in your best of Africa rankings. For example, you completely ignore Francophoone, Lusophone, and Arabic Africa, and after visiting your website, one can get the impression that South Africa is the
only country that matters in Africa.
You clearly ignore the Gulf of Guinea region, which is far more dynamic and prosperous than anywhere else on the continent. I'd challenge you that any "best of Africa"
list you put up ought to be dominated by Nigeria.
Nigeria has the highest number of big cities in Africa, three times South Africa's mineral wealth, Nollywood, an indigenous video film industry larger than any in
Europe except for Germany, and more dollar millionaires than Britain.
I won't even get into global Ghanaians, Senegalese, Ivorians, Cape Verdeans, to mention but a few.
Kiwuka Mawano
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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August 19, 2002
Keep improving, beautiful ideas on this web site. I wish the categories could be more diverse and researched. Nevertheless a wonderful site to visit.
Makes you realize that all is not dead in Africa-what we see from western media. I have already book marked it.
Mbula Katuta
Old Trafford, Manchester, England
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August 19, 2002
I would like to nominate Starehe Boys' Centre to be among the best high schools in Africa.
Having attended the school my opinion maybe biased but on the whole I think it is very successful in
producing all round students and as past examination results indicate - excellent academic achievements.
Ibrahim Mugambi
Nairobi, Kenya
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August 13, 2002
I would like to vote for Strathmore as one of the top 20 schools in Africa.
The school's approach to education is so refreshing as the aim is to educate "wholly" mentally, physically
& spiritually. Character building is an integral part of the school, each student has a personal tutor from among the teaching staff whom he can confide in & reach out to for guidance.
The school's motto
"That all will be one" makes the students learn humility and tolerance. Many prominent Kenyans have gone through Strathmore School.
Mwehaki
Nairobi, Kenya
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August 9, 2002
What a wonderful, wonderful resource you will be for me. I am the publisher of a positive news Web site and newsletter that features only the good news from around the world, goodnewsnetwork.org,
You assessment that such a media source is needed regarding Africa is obvious.
Geraldine Weis-Corbley
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August 9, 2002
Just wanted to say your doing a great jod and we need sites like this for africa
Heril Bangera
Nairobi, Kenya
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August 7, 2002
I'd like to see a listing of African graduate schools. Is that possible?
Michael Lynch
Washington, DC, USA
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August 6, 2002
I am e-mailing from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and need help on a school project.
I need a time line of South African presidents. Tried various sites and only know of the last three presidents. Can you please
help? Also, was Paul Kruger the first president?
Joyce Davies
Melbourne, Australia
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July 26, 2002
My letter is about air play of western music; all and most our music FM
stations in Africa pride themselves for playing over 50 percent western songs, whereas airplay of African songs is limited.
I have lived in Belgium for close to two years, but I have never heard any of the FM
stations here play any African music, does it ring a bell for you and your concept of making Africa known for positive efforts, and its music as well in the Western world?
Congratulations for the award to Africa Almanac.
Loum Labongo.
Gent, Belgium.
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July 22, 2002
Keep up the good work you are doing!
I am an African-American
and I am extremely tired of the negative garbage coming from "western media" such as the BBC and CNN.
Robert Mugabe should have been included on your list of the Top 100 Africans of 2001. He has the courage
to correct a historical injustice.
One percent of the population (whites) controlling eighty percent of the best farmland is neo-colonialism. We Africans are sometimes spineless defending strong African leaders.
As Africans we must built upon the positive.
Now that I have found your website, I will never leave it!
Santa Monica, California, USA
