Wednesday, August 31, 2011

2nd Annual ICT Women Empowerment Summit, SA

CORPTRAIN (Pty) Ltd will be hosting their 2nd annual three-day summit on ICT Women Empowerment Africa Summit on the 28th-30th September 2011 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand- Johannesburg, South Africa. The event is aimed at exploring initiatives to effectively use ICT to empower Women in Africa and dwells on exclusive case studies from South Africa, Uganda, Kenya & Ghana.

For more information regarding this event, visit the blog ictwomensummit.blogspot.com or Facebook target="_blank"page www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=265197720173683.

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Blogger The Relentless Builder said...

I just passed the "Versatile Blogger" award on to you. Congratulations! Please check my blog (relentlessbuilder.blogspot.com) for more details. Cheers!

10:51 AM, October 17, 2011  

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

No Internet = More Reading

And while I've always known this, applying this basic tenet to my life has been a chore.

I'm away for work this week and more importantly away from my personal laptop and night-time internet connection. This means that:

1. I am in bed at a reasonable hour.
2. I have few distractions and read until I sleep.
3. I'm galloping through my books at an alarming rate.

So, the last point is actually not true, but I am reading faster than I would at home.

I sped through Above Suspicion by Lynda La Plante and I'm reading the Caine shortlist story collection for 2011, To See the Mountain and Other Stories right now.

I will try to do reviews of both if I get it together enough.

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Anonymous deji said...

Could never get my head round La plante's novels.maybe it's cos of the uk setting.. You should try Walter Mosley,George Pelecanos and James lee Burke for your crime fiction genre.

2:05 AM, August 12, 2011  
Blogger Ore said...

And maybe it's precisely because of the UK settling that I liked her novel.

I have seen a movie based on a Walter Mosley film and I was quite lost the first time I watched it. I'll try some of the other authors you mentioned. I tend to enjoy both UK and US crime dramas, so maybe I'll like the US books as much as La Plante.

1:36 AM, August 15, 2011  
Blogger SongReach said...

Ore, been a while since i stopped by. Glad to know that you are doing well. Take care

3:41 PM, August 19, 2011  
Blogger The Relentless Builder said...

I totally agree with you on this one, i.e. you tend to read more without the internet (unless you're reading online, of course!)

And great work with W.TEC. I have been following your progress for a few years now. Kudos!

6:11 PM, August 25, 2011  
Blogger Ore said...

Hi Songreach. Long time. It's so good to hear from you. I'm hardly blogging these days.

8:55 AM, August 26, 2011  
Anonymous deji said...

HI Ore,glad you have surfaced again.was it really work or some romantic interlude.Anyway,been away in Maiduguri recently for some family biz.,where it was marginally just less hot than the surface of the sun!
Hope to be at your bookshop this saturday...so have to get my disguise on.
My sister just brought me some books from the US...The thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Lush life-Richard Price.Warmth of other suns-Isabel Wilkerson.
Arkansas Testament and Omeros -by the great Derek Walcott who i consider the greatest living poet.
Am so looking forward to getting started..generators on stand by!. ..The frisson of excitement!...Nothing gets my juices flowing than books and Lee Morgan, Coltrane,Sun Ra ..These are 1950'and 60's jazz and blues. Have been accused of being an old man as i do not listen hip-hop and any of the nonsense that passes for music on our Lagos radio stations.
My dad was a jazz fanatic,ergo,that shaped my musical taste.
Anyway, will do a mini review as soon as am done with the books.Enjoy your weekend

11:03 AM, August 26, 2011  
Blogger Ore said...

Hi RB, thanks for the kudos. Woohoo! A fan!

11:52 PM, August 26, 2011  
Blogger Ore said...

@RB, Here I am online again when I meant to read. The internet is a hard addiction to give up and moderation is difficult for me to practice. Anyway, I'm trying to figure out from your blog if I know you. I will find out soon enough.

Deji, I will be at the shop tomorrow and will look out for you, which will be incredibly difficult btw.

I look forward to your book reviews, though you will have to share the link of where they'll be.

12:22 AM, August 27, 2011  
Blogger Muse Origins said...

Internet does decrease my book reading time. Sigh

Adiya
Muse Origins
Muse Origins FB

9:18 PM, December 16, 2011  
Blogger Ore said...

@ Muse Origins: Yes, it sadly does. If only there was a way to engage in both effectively.

12:14 AM, January 04, 2012  

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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

A Royal Wedding in Lagos - Part 3



CNN's Inside Africa features a royal wedding in lagos.

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Planning a Royal Wedding in Lagos - Part 1



The planning for the wedding.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love your blog.what a delight.I am an avid reader myself.what is your bookshop called?.next will give a list of books that i have enjoyed this year so far.Am re reading 'catch -22'by Heller.It is all time favourite of mine.

deji

4:20 PM, August 11, 2011  
Blogger Ore said...

Thanks, Deji! I've never read Catch 22. Will get to it one of these days.

The shop is Patabah Books in Adeniran Ogunsanya, Surulere.

5:08 PM, August 11, 2011  

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