Sentences with phrase «example to other african»

He said the decision of the court, which annuls the results of that country's August 8 presidential polls, serves as a shining example to other African countries.

Ugandan millennials who are using bitcoin as a source of income are an example to other Africans struggling with unemployment.

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Chairman of the association, Alhaji Moro Akakade, in an interview with the B&FT lamented the situation — saying government should emulate the examples of other West African countries and commit funds to revive the sector.

A similar defence cooperation agreement between the Kenyan Government and the British Government which has gone viral on social media has deepened our woes, and Ghana, a country used to be the trailblazer and shining example for other African countries is now becoming an object of ridicule on the continent.»

From this example, other Africans can learn that eLearning is an effective method of learning that the poor can use to access quality education.

The problem is that often the forest gets lost because the leaves aren't counted: the authors describe a CREDO report's conclusions on the cumulative advantage of urban charter schools for poor African American students but give the reader no sense of how trustworthy they deem the report to be nor how significant the purported charter - school impact is — compared, for example, to results of any other major school - reform strategy.

As such, you are a shining example for other African - American students (and for that matter, any student) to emulate.

For example, among those groups with graduates» growth, the Black or African American increased more in both male and female when compared to other racial group, with Black or African American males increasing more than females.

As an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCC.

For example, African greys can be very shy and sensitive, but they are generally the best talkers and not prone to yell like most other commonly kept large parrot species.

«That Sidibé was a «popular» photographer rather than a satirical pop commentator on vernacular culture — which is to say he was a photographer firmly grounded in his environment who combined work - for - hire portraiture with his own exploratory documentation of the quotidian excitement of his Bamako neighborhood — made him one among several recording angels of a new generation of urban Africans, of which the other most important Malian example was his elder, Seydou Keita.

Presenting one - of - a-kind works including commissions by Elizabeth Catlett (a sculpture representing the Cosby family) and Faith Ringgold (a birthday quilt from Camille to Bill), the exhibition features important examples by African American aritsts Robert S. Duncanson, Joshua Johnston, Richmond Barthe, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Henry O. Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Archibald Motley, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Charles White, Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Robert Colescott (above), Whitfield Lovell, Kehinde Wiley, Lorna Simpson and Kori Newkirk, among others.

For example, Nigerians and other Africans migrate to places like South Africa for survival and freedom — including the freedom to love — managing existing trauma amid fears of xenophobia in a country still healing from its own apartheid past.

Another focal point of the launch was the opening of Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, featuring a selection of close to 40 works from Evans» legacy collection of African American art - from 19th - century landscape paintings of the Hudson River School to works by masters of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as examples from the Federal Art Project of the 1930s and later 20th - century works by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, among others.

In some ways, this was the result of a process that had been building up for decades: The modern art movements of the early 20th century can be defined by their struggle with the legacy of Western Art; artists were clamoring to break out of these boundaries either by leaving and working elsewhere (for example German expressionists August Macke and Emil Nolde followed in the footsteps of French post-impressionist Paul Gauguin) or by seeking inspiration and incorporating what they could from the «exotic» art of other cultures — from African sculpture to Japanese prints.

Up now, for example, alongside galleries devoted to»70s Minimalism, is a room devoted to more exuberant paintings from the same period by Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Murray, Jack Whitten, Joan Snyder, and Al Loving, among other mostly female and African American artists.

Central African countries can be proud of this initiative, conceived in a remarkable spirit of collaboration and very often cited in international arena as an example to replicate in other parts of the world.»

While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton created a nonprofit to fund so - called clean cookstoves that are being marketed as the preferred UN solution for Africans and others without access to electricity (rather than, for example, providing electricity to them)-LRB-.

For example, it's estimated that up to 10 million Africans died under Belgian rule when (non-communist) King Leopold II exploited the Congo for rubber and other resources, (and had his colonial henchmen chop the hands off of African slaves if they didn't meet their rubber quotas).

For example, attempting to target Hispanic buyers to the exclusion of African Americans or Caucasians or targeting Christians to the exclusion of those from other faiths.