| Alicia Keys - The Girl who has Everyhing | Alicia Keys - The Girl who has Everything
 I remember sitting at home one day when a friend came by to visit; I was listening to a new Alicia Keys CD. She picked up the cover and said “I don’t like this girl”. Something about the half-joking, half-serious lilt of her voice told me she didn’t really mean it but I pretended to be shocked. “How so?”, I asked. She went on “it can’t be fair that someone who looks so gorgeous can also be so damned talented; it just isn’t fair!” In an instant, she had summed up t...
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| Book Review: “100 Ways To Motivate Others” | Book Review: “100 Ways To Motivate Others”
Book Review: By Prof.M.S.Rao
Authored By Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson
 “The first duty of a leader is optimism. How does your subordinate feel after meeting with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.” – Field Marshall Montgomery
I have read the book titled “100 ways to motivate others” authored by Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson recently. The book helps you know what motivates and how to motivate yourself and others. It contains se
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| Brussels Airlines; The African Specialist | Brussels Airlines; The African Specialist
Brussels Airlines Introduction
 Brussels Airlines is the leading Belgian airline flying out of Brussels, Belgium to some 50 European and 18 African destinations. A full service scheduled airline, there are no hidden extras once you have purchased your ticket.
Flights to Africa
Brussels Airlines has unrivalled experience as the leading specialist for flights between Europe and Africa, and boasts crew with real African know-how. Brussels Airlines flies to 18 destinations in Africa – Abidjan, ...
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| Couture Show London evening wear | Couture Show London evening wear
 At Couture Show London evening wear, classic ball gowns and elegant wear created by Anh Mao, and about to be launched were showcased. It brings to the corporate world, and bustling London business community, something of difference: a new and exhilarating opportunity to take part in a show of exquisite elegance, charm and excellence.
Couture Show London seeks to strengthen design and beauty business ventures through the show’s exposure to high profile guests, persons of prominence and influent...
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| Emmanuel Katongole, CEO Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd | Emmanuel Katongole, CEO Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd
Mr. Willy Mutenza talks to the Chief Executive Officer of Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd, the first African WHO-certified pharmaceutical manufacturing plant of malaria and HIV medicine, based outside Kampala, Uganda.
 Promota: Why did you start Quality Chemicals and why particularly the Anti-viral drugs?
Emmanuel Katongole: I guess you mean why we started Quality Chemical Industries Ltd, which is the manufacturing concern and a separate entity from Quality Chemicals Ltd which is one of the majo
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| Fight the Power | Fight the Power
Meet the fight the power crew – nine talented ladies from sports, media and artistic fields who are the future power of our economy. Each lady was asked what their struggles and passions are in life, and when times are tough – how do they fight the power?
Let’s press rewind and imagine 1989; two decades ago when black people in South Africa were still unable to vote, the Brixton riots commenced in 1981 and changed the face of Black London, Maggie Thatcher’s reign was coming to a t...
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| Finding Hope in the Slum: Kibera, Kenya | Finding Hope in the Slum: Kibera, Kenya
 Nowhere is it more apparent that women feed the world than in the largest slum in Kenya. Packed full of people, Kibera slum in Nairobi is populated by anywhere from 700,000 to a million people. In an area of of about 225 hectares, the equivalent of just over half the size of Central Park in Manhattan, the women we met are growing food not just to feed their families, but also to generate income.
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| Ghana’s budding Fashion & Textiles Entrepeneur | Ghana’s budding Fashion & Textiles Entrepeneur
Enam Gbewonyo talks to Promota about aesthetics & living in New York.
 Clare Eluka: When did you discover your passion for art?
Enam Gbewonyo: I always enjoyed art from a very young age but I think I really developed a passion for it at Secondary School. I remember staying up late many nights working on projects. I just couldn’t stop; it became an addiction.
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| HIGHWAY TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS | HIGHWAY TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS
 One needs to wander down the Highway to Holistic Health and Wellness. Since, there is an abundance and a wealth of information on your E-Mail, T.V., Informercials, Commercials, all explaining their wares, asking you to buy, buy, as theirs is the best, and the fountain of youth! After all, you need to have each and everyone! Scare tactics, are also of abundance, and you need the miracle pill to make you more alluring, ward off the disease of aging, and keep you more vital and energetic for a long...
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| How economic activities in SPAIN, PORTUGAL & GREECE hitting hard on African Dutch living and working | How economic activities in SPAIN, PORTUGAL & GREECE hitting hard on African Dutch living and working in the Netherlands
By Dr. Paul OVIAWE ( www.icc-edu.nl / 020.6654163 / 0650492753 )
 A new study from the International College of Commerce a postgraduate private professional institute in the Netherlands identifies fresh injustices suffered by African victims of racial discrimination and related intolerances.
The study focused on the likelihood that an African-Dutch job applicant would be the last choice after white Dutch and European block citizens have been refused or not available, in some cases non European ...
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| Interview: Olajumoke B. Bamigboye | Interview Olajumoke B. Bamigboye
 The Promota was honoured to interview one of the most beautiful MBA students at Oxford University.She is actually not just beautiful but the most intelligent beauty you can meet. Africa is truly endowed with great people.
What is your name?
Olajumoke B. Bamigboye
Where do you come from in Africa?
The North Central part of Nigeria.
What is your education & career background?
I graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. I got an offer from Goldman Sachs International, which I ...
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| Interview: Ayo Johnson- Africa Specialist Analysit | Interview Ayo Johnson: Africa Specialist Analysit
 The Promota was honoured to interview one of the world’s leading speakers and a specialist in African Affairs. He is the owner, founder and Director of Viewpoint Africa media house that deals with news from the continent. Viewpoint Africa sells Breaking news content from Africa to media outlets around the world.
He went to South Bank University where he gained a Masters Degree in International Development. He is a consultant who has taught, trained and is imparting his experiences to 100’s o
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| Interview: Wil Johnson | Interview Wil Johnson
Talks Producing, Nollywood & Africa/Carribbean Unity with Promota!
 The star of BBC's 9yr series Waking The Dead, Wil Johnson talks to Promota's Beauty & Arts Editor Clare Eluka about his latest film "Disorientated Generation" which he co-produced with Nigerian CEO Christian Ashaiku, about discipline of children in today's western society and African Prosperity.
Clare Eluka: I know you and Chris are working on a ‘relationship’ film. What is it?
Wil Johnson: It’s about this young Nigerian guy
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| Interview: Zain Latif, An Investor Keen to transform the Lives of Africans | Interview Zain Latif, An Investor Keen to transform the Lives of Africans
The answer for Africa’s underinvested health infrastructure.
 Mr. Will Mutenza the publisher of Promota magazine had a chance to meet Zain Latif, Principal of TLG Capital.
Promota: There may be some folks who don’t know you so, if you had to introduce yourself, what would you say?
Zain: I am the principal of TLG Capital, a firm that focuses on frontier markets.
Promota: What is your background and what was it that motivated you to begin TLG Capital?
Zain: To give some background: TLG Capi...
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| Interview: Rudolph Walker, OBE | Interview: Rudolph Walker, OBE
The Eastenders star, Rudolf Walker talks to Promota’s Beauty & Arts Editor Clare Eluka about his success on the screen.
 CE: What bought you to London in 1960?
RW: I came in September of 1960 to be exact. Just coming up to my 21 birthday. I was a very young man who had never left the island of Trinidad apart from sailing over to Tobago. It was an extraordinary feeling because I arrived in Britain and I said to myself, I am here to face whatever happens. There was no panic, I had this confidence...
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| Most Companies: Get Leadership Wrong | Most Companies Get Leadership Wrong
Most companies take a good approach to developing leaders, but generally miss the point. There’s a lot of emphasis placed on good decision making, effective communication, and team building. And all those are important, but don’t address what matters most.
When you get right down to it, the essence of leadership - the thing that best reflects good leadership - is when a leader is able to bring out the best in others. If a leader is able to elicit excellence from the people a...
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| Music Review: Akon Stadium | Music Review: Akon Stadium
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In the next few weeks, Akon’s new album will be released and once again this is an album full of chart hits, a mixture of R&B, Ballads and Dance with man of the moment David Guetta producing two tracks. Akon knows how to write commercial songs no doubt, but can he write music that is different from before, perhaps not? However if you are into Akon’s music this is probably his best album since his debut Trouble.
Reviewd by Richard Clark
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| Music Review Janelle Monae: The Arch Android | Music Review: Janelle Monae | The Arch Android
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The second full-length album from the singer born in Kansas City is a continuation of the story of Cindi Mayweather, the android introduced in the 2007 EP, "Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase." It is a 70 minute, 18 track epic but for this year you will not find an album with diverse styles such as R&B and Funk, British folk, Psychedelic rock, disco, cabaret, with a mix of uniqueness which are as bold as mainstream music gets but this album is daring to say the least.
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| Music Review: Kelis Fleshtone | Music Review: Kelis Fleshtone
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Kelis like Macy Gray has had an up and down career, a successful first album Kaleidoscope, a flop for Wanderland her second, a mammoth global success with Tasty but then a tame effort with Kelis Was Here, so you’re not always too sure what you will get with Kelis, but that to me is the allure of her and her music. Accapella has been a massive hit in Europe and songs on the nine track album are mainly focused on the sound of the European dance producers David Guetta, Diplo and others...
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| Music Review: KNaan Troubadour | Music Review: K’Naan Troubadour
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This was originally released last year to not much fanfare due to music listening audiences not knowing his music. However in the last two months two things have changed: Wavin Flag has become a number one in 15 countries or more, due to it being the unofficial sponsor song for the World Cup in South Africa, and now people in the western world seem to know who K’Naan is through such recent duets with Nas and Damian Marley and Keane. So, in the UK at least, this album is getting re-released...
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| Music Review: Macy Gray The Sellout | Music Review: Macy Gray The Sellout
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Macy Gray is like Marmite, as an admirer you either hate her music or love her music; I am one of the latter. This has great songs like commercial failure BIG (A slept on album if I ever heard one) and is very similar to The Trouble With Being Myself for interesting ideas. The lyrical content is inventive as always and Macy is not trying to be a copycat unlike other R&B singers or writing elevator groove music. She is 100% original and there are no club tracks unlike the current ...
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| Music Review: South African House | Music Review: South African House
 Beginnings and Origins
When we think of house music predominantly most people come up with famous cities known for the music style such as Chicago, Detroit, Miami and New York but right now and for the last ten years or more one of the most interesting House music scenes is coming from Africa. This can be found in the cities of South Africa such as Pictoria and the capital Johannesburg and the recent new emerging scene from Durban in the East.
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| Parenting Your Kids with Love and Affection | Parenting Your Kids with Love and Affection
 Parenting is an onerous responsibility and there are no shortcuts to good parenthood. We all know that a smile is contagious and when a child smiles, the beauty and shine of the whole universe sparkles in his eyes. This moment of utter bliss gives the parents the happiness of lifetime and every parent wants the best for his child and wants to see him happy.
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| Personality and Work Performance | Personality and Work Performance
 Personality is very stable after around eighteen years of age. If you’re a parent, you probably think it’s more like eight! In fact, some personal psychologists are now saying that the child you see at three will be the adult you see at thirty – frighten if you have an unruly three year old! But it’s safe to say once we hit eighteen we are “stuck” with who we are.
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| Publisher’s Letter | Publisher’s Letter
Be yourself! Let us be proud Africans!
"Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905"
 It has been a hectic month with a lot of good progress for the Promota, having on board a varied team of new contributors and sub-editors.
This spring, The Promota was honoured to be invited to cover a seminar at the Saaid Business School – Oxford University on the theme “Africa ...
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| Review: BMW ActiveHybrid X6 | Review: BMW ActiveHybrid X6
 Although BMW initially shunned hybrids in favor of clean diesels and other alternative powertrains, the German automaker is joining the electrically assisted fray next year with not one but two gasoline-electric vehicles: the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7 — our first drive of which you can read here — and the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6.
Both models share ActiveHybrid badging and fall in the contradictory performance-hybrid segment, but their similarities end there. The 7 is a mild hybrid that uses an...
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| sibling jealousy | sibling jealousy
And baby makes four – or more!
Baby gap…
 It’s always hugely exciting when a new baby comes along. With a first baby, there’s the anxiety of wondering if you can cope, because it’s all new. But when a baby joins an existing family of one or more children you’ll probably be less worried about managing, since experience tells you that you can at least muddle through!
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| The long-necked women of Thailand Another Women Exploitation? | The long-necked women of Thailand Another Women Exploitation?
 The Padaung are a group of Karen people who escaped from the Kaya state of Burma to Thailand in the mid to late 1900s. They are refugees of political turmoil and up to date the Karens in Burma are still fighting for their independence. They live in Thailand close to the Eastern Burma-Thailand border and call themselves “Lae Kur” or Kayah.
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| The Demolition Crew | The Demolition Crew
Throughout the whole of human history, no saint or prophet lived as a member of the demolition crew for very long, if at all. Some did take out a temporary membership then abandoned it once they built a very close bond with God.
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| The power of Public Relations – reaching the masses | The power of Public Relations – reaching the masses
By Mavis Amankwah
 For many people, when you mention ‘PR’ there is an air of confusion. The use of PR (Public Relations) is often misunderstood or seen as a negative. Good PR however is invisible and influences perception subtly.
What is PR?
PR is about reinforcing your name/brand and reputation. It tells your audience about what you do, what you say and what others say about you. It is used to gain trust and understanding between you, your brand and your various stakeholders – whether that
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| Winners of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2010 | Winners of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2010
Winners of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2010 were tonight announced at a VIP ceremony in London addressed by Sir David Attenborough.
 Five international winners and a Gold Award winner were awarded over £140,000 prize money for their pioneering work in benefitting communities across the globe and saving thousands of tonnes of CO2 through the innovative use of sustainable energy technologies.
Sir David Attenborough said:
“These award-winners are champions at delivering prac...
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| World Cup 2010: Africa’s dream turned nightmare? | World Cup 2010: Africa’s dream turned nightmare?
 By the time the final of the 2010 World Cup came around, many African football fans – that is Africans who love football and all those who love African football – had long ceased to care about what the outcome would be. This writer includes himself in that number and one has to ask ‘Why?’. After all, this is was the first (and, some think the last) time that the world’s premier football tournament had been staged in Africa.
Of the African representatives this time, along with host S...
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| World of Braiding & Extensions | World of Braiding & Extensions
 The Women’s Business Opportunity Network seminar recently held at the St Marks centre, Docklands. World of Braiding & Extensions Limited founders and sole sponsors of the event was motivated, to organise the second of these free quarterly seminars, by a sense of corporate responsibility and a giving back to the community spirit.
The objectives of the WOBON seminars is to provide a platform for women to be inspired from the success stories of female business entrepreneurs and industry leaders. ...
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| Xtreme 3 Ministries | Xtreme 3 Ministries
 Xtreme 3 is the success story of a Christian musical group risen from scratches and formed by a group of talented youths, all coming from disadvantaged walks of life.
Xtreme 3 is a non-profit legal organisation of vulnerable, disadvantaged and orphaned youths who embrace music, dance and theatre as a spring board to showcase not only their emerging talent, but also to use the same as a channel to determine their own future and the future of others.
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