AWE MEDIA

23/08/2022

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09/07/2022

02/07/2022

https://cointelegraph.com/news/african-celebrities-join-degens-on-the-journey-to-the-moon

High costs of living, inflation and a lack of jobs and opportunities have pushed people in Africa toward cryptocurrency adoption

27/06/2022

https://www.reuters.com/world/dozens-migrants-piled-ground-melilla-disaster-rights-group-says-2022-06-25/

28/05/2022

I have 10 major beefs with Grenada’s Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme: the first 5 are general, plus 5 more relating to specific projects.

28/05/2022

The Bill to amend the Bank of Jamaica Act was passed in the House of Representatives yesterday.

This will facilitate the national roll out of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and making the BOJ the sole issuer of CBDC.

28/05/2022

The longest road in the world a person can walk is from Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 to Magdan, Russia 🇷🇺

There are bridges across rivers, no boat or air journey required. The road is over 22 000 km long and it would take 587 days to cover for a person walking 8 hours a day. The road also covers 17 countries, 6 time zones and the traveller will experience all the seasons and weathers of the world in his or her journey.

17/05/2022

11/05/2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-61315877

The BBC's Laura Trevelyan travels to the island of Grenada to investigate her family's slave-owning past.

11/05/2022

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-sudan-archaeology-tombos

Archaeological work at Tombos reveals the stories of people who lived more than 4,000 years ago—and inspires new interest from the people who live there today.

07/05/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/lost-jews-of-nigeria-igbo-judaism-israel

The long read: Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands have enthusiastically taken up the faith. Why?

29/04/2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/oops-our-bad-imf-director-admits-we-printed-too-much-money

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

25/04/2022

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/linton-kwesi-johnson-interview-rebel-music-lewisham-borough-culture-racism-b995334.html

The legendary dub poet reflects on five decades at the heart of Black activism – and how he’s still fighting now

21/04/2022

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17/04/2022

https://www.nowgrenada.com/2022/04/urgent-call-for-reparations-for-slavery-hits-home/?fbclid=IwAR2PHKlRpilG6it886sfAnDQrYINodUTT1ZAdOCvNOH2GjBsl8g7-c_eSlU

“Grenadians of all walks of life should think carefully about the social, economic and political impacts of slavery — the legacy of slavery on our society — and the social and economic future of Grenada”

17/04/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/15/bank-of-england-owned-599-slaves-in-1770s-new-exhibition-reveals

Research commissioned by Bank in the wake of Black Lives Matter uncovers grim history of colonial Grenada

17/04/2022

https://newrepublic.com/article/165654/los-angeles-legal-ma*****na-build-black-wealth-failed?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Social equity programs were supposed to correct the disparities of the war on drugs as ma*****na became legal. What went wrong?

17/04/2022

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/pandemic-failed-economic-forecasting/629498/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

17/04/2022

https://www.vox.com/22937531/virus-lab-safety-pandemic-prevention

As biology gets better, biosecurity gets harder. Here’s what the world can do to prepare.

13/04/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJnbTSYzz8

On this edition of Independent Sources hosted by Garry Pierre-Pierre, Zyphus Lebrun interviews a filmmaker, Yelena Demikovsky who is producing a documentary ...

13/04/2022

Black Russians is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. The...

31/03/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/health/covid-africa-deaths.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

The coronavirus was expected to devastate the continent, but higher-income and better-prepared countries appear to have fared far worse.

14/03/2022

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/to-fix-the-social-sciences-look-to-the-dark-ages-of-medicine?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

If medicine could break with its barbarous past, why shouldn’t the same path be open to the social sciences?