Have you assessed Saint Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria or any other Nigerian businesses?
Akin Akideinde
London, England
September 18, 2001
Congratulations on winning the Highway Africa Award.
Badru D. Mulumba
Kampala, Uganda
September 29, 2001
Congratulations on your well-deserved success in winning the Highway Africa
Awards for Innovative Use of New Media. My colleague Lesley Abdela and I are journalists as well as trainers of future women leaders in the Developing World and we look forward very much to going to your website for
years to come.
Tim Symonds
Executive Director
Project Parity
London, England
October 4, 2001
It is simply amazing what you are doing!
Africa has always been painted as a
Dark Continent where only the worst Is expected, e.g genocide, war, famine, military coups, etc. Your initiative is very much saluted. Please keep up the wonderful work of helping correct the dirty image of Motherland
Africa by proving that something good can also be got in this beautiful continent of ours.
John Paul Kiffasi.
Kampala, Uganda
October 15, 2001
I really love your website! It is very
positive about Africa. I have a suggestion to have a top 100 youth of Africa. The youth in Africa need to be recognized for their efforts and act as role models for other youth.
In 2000 Disney-UNESCO-McDonalds
searched the world for youth who had done exceptional things. They selected 200O children from around the world and brought them to Disney. That was wonderful except only four kids from Africa were selected and they
were all from South Africa.
It was my understanding that only countries with McDonalds were selected, hence African Children were left out of this. I feel the UN was very blind in this affair. These children were
called the Millennium Dreamer Ambassadors. It was disappointing by and large that African youth were left out of this affair.
I do believe in an African Renaissance. I also know, though, that it will not happen if we
do not support our youth that are dedicated to a better Africa.
About the only time most African countries are interested on our youth is when we want to exploit them for political reasons.
When youth athletes,
intellectuals, and those youths with interests in human services, arts, and leadership are ignored, we will never find our way to the promising future Africa could have.
Patricia Moyo
USA
November 13, 2001
It was with great honor that I read this morning to be on such distinguished list among some of the greatest people of Africa. I am very humbled by this recognition, and I would like to thank
you and African Almanac for considering me as one of the top 100 Africans.
I assure you and the people of Africa of my continued efforts towards development and especially poverty eradication for which I have been
developing for the past two years a project called AfricaLive.
The project is non-profit using Internet and broadcasting ( streaming ). AfricaLive as it's names suggests is about "Keeping Africa
Alive" uniting individual and organization towards, poverty eradication and environmental conservation.
Once again, I thank you for the recognition of every African that you have listed.
Yazmin Nanji
Founder
African e-mail engine and AfricaLive
Nairobi, Kenya
November 30, 2001
Agnes Atyang
Kampala, Uganda
November 30, 2001
It is a shame
that a Ugandan has something to do with this website and Mt. St. Mary's Namagunga, Gayaza High School, King's College Budo and St. Mary's College Kisubi [all Ugandan high schools] are not mentioned in the list of
Africa's best schools.
I am absolutely sure that at least one of these schools is just as good --- if not better than some or all of the ones that are listed by the almanac.
I know for a fact that the Ugandan
education system at secondary school level is better recognised internationally than the South African one, so I believe this calls for redress.
You might want to research ythe international and private schools as
well, like St Lawrence High School, Rainbow Junior Academy, Lincoln International School, Greenhill Academy, Vienna College Namugongo, Kabojja Secondary school [in Uganda] to mention but a few.
Hazel Nahurira
Kampala, Uganda
December 27, 2001
How can Johannesburg be in the top 20 best cities? It is nothing but a glorified ghetto.
A.Khan
Johannesburg, South Africa
