The News Review:

- Africa: Honouring Africa’s Social Entrepreneurs
- Casamance: The King’s Festival
- Unusual vacation happenings

Africa: Honouring Africa’s Social Entrepreneurs
AllAfrica.com – Apr 24, 2008
The organisers Ashoka since 1981 have elected nearly 2000 leading social entrepreneurs as fellows. Its primary objective is to create communities of innovators while on the other hand build a vibrant citizen sector that supports those creating changes in the world today. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Ashoka Country Director Lesley Gene Agams while briefing the media said twenty leading social entrepreneurs from Kenya Nigeria Tanzania Uganda Mali Senegal South Africa and Zimbabwe will be inducted as Ashoka Fellows on May 9 in Dakar Senegal. The induction of the fellows is part of the four-day pan-African gathering of Ashoka fellows staff business entrepreneurs investors and donor agencies as well as strategic partners.

Casamance: The King’s Festival
Aljazeera.net – Apr 24, 2008
This is a film about the land of the Diola a people whose nation stretches from Gambia through to the French speaking south of Senegal to the north of Guinea Bissau. The King’s Festival is a captivating glimpse back in time to the atavistic ties that bind a people together. We meet the fascinating inhabitants of Casamance in Senegal here the Diola come together to unite in the revival of an ancient ritual the King’s Festival.

Unusual vacation happenings
Shelbyville Times-Gazette – Apr 24, 2008
We are trying to find a safe country to land in. ” I wanted to panic but since no one else on my plane seemed fazed I just went along with it. We landed in Senegal. Long story made very short – The good parts are that Senegal is an amazingly beautiful country and my hotel room was about 5 feet from pristine beaches. The bad part was that I did not get to Gabon to see Jeremy for at least another week – there were no flights leaving at all to go anywhere during that time. It was kind of scary at the time because I was alone but thankfully I spoke French so I could understand what everyone was saying. And now almost ten years later we joke about it because it’s a great story.