RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Calloway <ifoufo AT yahoo.com>]

> I hate the fact that there even
> has to be a benefit 
> involving the "situation in Darfur," as the radio
> news people like to 
> call it. Why are people such fucking beasts to one
> another, and why is 
> the west so averse to intervening in Africa, but so
> thrilled to stick 
> its nose in everywhere else?

sometimes I come across things which i don't know how
to process. sometimes these are things which are
obvious and to be expected. but i may still not know
how to process them nonetheless. like today, i found
out that just last week nigeria launched the first
communications satellite for an african nation. ok, so
they had a contractor design and build it. and they
had china launch it. but they did it. it worked, too.
it has a marketing website here:

http://www.nigcomsat.org/

which isn't so great and hasn't even been updated with
the news yet. but the bird is up there now, relaying
c, k, and l-band signals over sub-sahara.

and a sudanese firm is an investor:

http://odili.net/news/source/2006/apr/5/439.html

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