I am a Zimbabwean born writer in Canada. I have read your list of top Africans with interest. I wish to find out if the list comprises nominations or actual
winners.
Please keep up the good work. With more effort we will be able to redirect the world's perceptions on our beloved continent.
Silence Genti
502-165 Jameson Avenue Drive,
Toronto, Ontario. M6K 2Y5, Canada
January 12, 2002
Can you include historical facts and figures about the oldest schools, hospitals, buildings and other features in your website I think you
understand what I mean?
Sam Kayongo
Kampala, Uganda
January 26, 2002
Starehe Boys Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. Member of the Round Square. Character of the students. Excellence in
academics. Helping destitute children
Vitek Wild
Nairobi, Kenya
January 30, 2002
I nominate the Alliance High School, Kikuyu, Kenya.
It is situated about 18 kilometres from the capital
Nairobi and founded in 1918 and started in 1926 as the first high school for Africans in Kenya (I am a Ugandan and did not school there).
Alliance has remained the top and perhaps most prestigious school in Kenya
(academically), and has produced a number of top personalities in the country in various fields. It is a public school.
A huge number of politicians, government. officers, about a quarter of the judges past and
present, three of the four black African attorney generals (including the present one), numerous top people in the public sector in Kenya are old boys of the school.
Indeed, if you ask a Kenyan to guess where any top
personality in the country schooled, the answer you are likely to get is AHS.
About half of the scholarships awarded to Kenyans to NYU. Havard, Yale, MIT, Dartmouth, Oxford and such other prestigious Universities go
to Alliance High School products.
Omido Mkutu
Nairobi, Kenya
February 3, 2002
I congratulate you on the goals and vision of this site and the African Union.
Often times we the
Africans seat around and look for whom to blame. Yes, the West has contributed to our demise, but in great part, our demise is our own doing.
So, it is refreshing to see an African organization whose mission is to "achieve economic and social advancement for Africa, by means of political cooperation."
I also believe that for Africa to move
ahead we have to be candid with ourselves, our problems, and the causes of our problems. We should seek to understand the fundamental impediments to our being able to keep up with ourselves not to mention the rest of
the world.
In that regard, I urge you to provide a medium whereby we the Africans can air and discuss our problems in great details. Why we are failing and the recipe for us to succeed.
I have been thinking a great deal about this problem.
We need to discuss these issues. Keep up the good work and I appreciate what you are doing for Africa.
Michael Atogi
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
March 2, 2002
I would like to nominate Starehe Boys' Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, Maru a Pula School in Botswana, and St. Cyprian School in South Africa.
Dunson Kamau
Sheffield, England
March 3, 2002
Congratulations for an ambitious and large project well done.
Davinder Singh
Nairobi, Kenya
March 13, 2002
Its a shame that I have only just stumbled upon this, but
I must say a hearty thanks to all those involved in the handling of this website.
It takes a lot of work to come up with all the information you have (so I won't go into the Importance of updating information), but
its people like you who are pioneers in using existing technologies to help improve Africa's image. Well done.
Daisy Asiimwe
Bournemouth, England
March 14, 2002
Thanks for the
information that you are putting out - I do applaud your efforts. However, I would like to remind you that there are currently 54 countries in Africa. As such, kindly update your information on countries in Africa to
include Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Many thanks,
Fiona Adolu
Banjul, The Gambia
March 19, 2002
I have been enjoying you website for just over a month now, the promotion of African
countries and their people is very important to me even though I have never lived inside Africa.
I am writing to you about the section on your website dedicated to the top Africans of the year. I would like to put
someone forward for top African of 2002.
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy is a portrait painter who grew up in Nigeria and now lives in England.
Chinwe has had many successes over the years as an artist, including the portrait
of Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, whose portrait was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Marlborough House on Commonwealth Day in March 2000.
But Chinwe reached a new peak
when she was commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat to paint Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The painting was unveiled on March 11th by Don McKinnon, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, to mark both
Commonwealth day and Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee.
Rogan Roy
London, England
March 24, 2002
Strathmore School, Nairobi, Kenya is an accomplished boys' day school par excellence.
Several of Kenya's technocrats have been through its hallowed halls, and more will surely follow. Also consider Ngugi wa Thiong'o alma mater, given his input into contemporary Africa English literature.
James Isaac Mwangi Wanyange
Nairobi, Kenya
March 28, 2002
Surprisingly, I got your web site, africaalmanac.com only today while browsing the Ethiopiareporter.com web site and learnt that you
have been awarded in the annual Highway African Internet awards on 14 September 2002.
Congratulations! I am very proud of you. Please keep it up, reflecting the good events in our beloved Africa.
Debre Haile
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
