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Health care spending grows in Adams’ $112B executive budget

Mayor Eric Adams’ nearly $112 billion executive budget, released Wednesday, includes more than $5 billion for health care initiatives, a figure that has grown by $172 million since his January preliminary budget.The revised plan avoids new spending cuts for city agencies and paints a rosier... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'

[ Crains New York | 2024-04-25 09:33:07 UTC ]
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A Graphic Novel Finds a Relatable Hero in a Modern African Woman

The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2024-02-10 10:02:39 UTC ]
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Timbuktu manuscripts placed online are only a sliver of West Africa's ancient archive

Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life. Continue reading at 'The Conversation'

[ The Conversation | 2022-03-29 16:12:23 UTC ]
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Q&A with AkooBooks' Ama Dadson

With a vast market for audio content in Africa, the founder of the only publisher and distributor of African audiobooks in West Africa is hoping to capitalise. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-17 02:22:20 UTC ]
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Zadie Smith on Male Critics, Appropriation, and What Interests Her Novelistically About Trump

In an interview in 2000, Zadie Smith told the Guardian about the pressure she felt after the astonishing success of her debut novel, White Teeth. “I was expected to be some expert on multicultural affairs, as if multiculturalism is a genre of fiction or something,” she said. “Whereas it’s just a... Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Regional Cookbooks 2015: West Africa

When it comes to African cookbooks, Morocco typically dominates. But this season, West Africa comes into focus. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Education to move out of Africa

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Fri, 29/07/2011 - 09:20 Macmillan has “walked away” from its education business in east and west Africa, and is understood to have put all its education publishing companies and interests across the continent (other than in Botswana) on the block.... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan fined £11.3m following SFO probe

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 22/07/2011 - 14:54 Macmillan Publishers has been fined more than £11m for "unlawful conduct" related to its education wing in east and west Africa. The publisher was under investigation following a report from the World Bank. A subsidiary of... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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