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6 pm Mountain Time FM 88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide Download or stream When Sudanese engineer and entrepreneur Mohamed Ibrahim built a cellular communication network across the African continent, he likely had no idea he’d meet such massive financial, social and political success. Ibrahim eventually sold his Celtel company for $3.4 billion , and used his money to establish the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The Foundation’s major goal is to improve governance across the African continent, since without government provision of security, rule of law, justice and human development, and facilitation of trade, citizens have a much more difficult time of transforming their societies for the better. The Mohamed Ibrahim Foundation awards excellence in national leadership to any African federal leader who came to power democratically and left his or her country in better political, economic and social conditions. Worth $5 million initially and $200,000 annually for life, the prize is awarded...

6 pm Mountain Time FM 88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide Download or stream The prevailing imagery in Western corporate media about the 54 countries of Africa is predictable and simplistic. Jungles and deserts, swollen bellies and child soldiers, dictators and decay. Yet the realities are far more diverse for the planet’s second largest continent, and often, they are remarkably inspiring. Take mobile telephones. It’s true that the Congo War has claimed 5 million lives, and it’s true that the war is fought to rob the Democratic Republic of Congo of its unparalleled resources. Those resources include the planet’s greatest supply of coltan , the indispensable ingredient in all modern computerised technology including mobile phones, without which the world would fall silent. But the untold and unknown story is that because it’s easier to construct cellular telephone towers than land lines, Africa has become a leader in mobile phone use and innovation. People in various African countries us...