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06-02-07, 12:04 PM
Akon buys himself a diamond mine
Anita Repeater
Monday January 29, 2007
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Not content with coining the squeakiest tune of 2005, (Lonely, so lonely) formerly locked down R&B sensation Akon is also the proud owner of a diamond mine in South Africa. Details of the mine remain shady as the Smack That singer claims his ownership is "complicated"�, but not so complicated that he can't be seen dripping from head-to-toe in the mine's wares from day-to-day. No report yet as to whether his other capitalist ventures include the arms trade and the lucrative sweatshop industry.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/sto...001502,00.html
I wanted to know if the Dagara elders could tell the diffrence between fiction and reality. The elders did not understand what a starship is, they did not understand what the fussy uniforms had to do with anything but they recognized in Spock a Kontomble of the seventh planet... they had never seen a Kontomble that big.
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06-02-07, 01:49 PM
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06-02-07, 02:43 PM
I take everything back what I said about Oprah.
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06-02-07, 03:01 PM
Heard about this on MTV,maybe it'll start an influx ofrich entertainers and sports stars buying mines and industries. . Think he only just bought it or something, was talking about how, ''you never know what you'll find and blah blah blah''... Brings that topic about disporans (A.As) investing in Africato mind. Says he bought it from a mine owners son who said he just wasn't intrested any more. Not sure what to make of it really... thought he was/is clued up,the guy is C.African I'm sure.
What did you say about Opera?
I wanted to know if the Dagara elders could tell the diffrence between fiction and reality. The elders did not understand what a starship is, they did not understand what the fussy uniforms had to do with anything but they recognized in Spock a Kontomble of the seventh planet... they had never seen a Kontomble that big.
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06-02-07, 04:45 PM
I really hope this so called mine is not boughtso he would brag about it in his songs. Last thing I want tohear is some corny songs with annoying voices talking about owning a whole bling bling mine.
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06-02-07, 05:15 PM
What's the problem? Better Senegalese Akon than Boer Botha or whoever.
Diamonds are a commodity Africa has and others want. There's a market and we are the sellers. There are issues wrapped up in how those others go about obtaining them from Africa, but surely if Africans are owning and controlling the process to begin with it's less of a problem. I see this as a positive move. After all, don't we usually talk about investing in Africa ourselves?
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06-02-07, 05:29 PM
BUMP! :X
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06-02-07, 05:41 PM
Plz note there was nothing negative posted about this for there to be a questioning air about it.
Not much news as of yet.
I wanted to know if the Dagara elders could tell the diffrence between fiction and reality. The elders did not understand what a starship is, they did not understand what the fussy uniforms had to do with anything but they recognized in Spock a Kontomble of the seventh planet... they had never seen a Kontomble that big.
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What's the problem? Better Senegalese Akon than Boer Botha or whoever.
Diamonds are a commodity Africa has and others want. There's a market and we are the sellers. There are issues wrapped up in how those others go about obtaining them from Africa, but surely if Africans are owning and controlling the process to begin with it's less of a problem. I see this as a positive move. After all, don't we usually talk about investing in Africa ourselves?
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my point exactly.........i don't see what the problem is.....especially if it is true that he is paying people fairly, and providing them a safe working enviornment!
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06-02-07, 05:51 PM
Ok... the writers at the Guardian have been gettingin deep recently and its reported as being a bad thing but yeah, it could be/is a good thing, no one on hereput it in a negative light.
I wanted to know if the Dagara elders could tell the diffrence between fiction and reality. The elders did not understand what a starship is, they did not understand what the fussy uniforms had to do with anything but they recognized in Spock a Kontomble of the seventh planet... they had never seen a Kontomble that big.
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07-02-07, 08:42 AM
My kneejerk reaction was... is it an investment that bodes well for Africans or simply an ego exercise so that he can bling up and brag. If he operates it without tactics of exploitation, I'm all for it.
What does Akon have to say about it, any interviews?
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07-02-07, 03:26 PM
perhapes is part of that africans supporting africans line we all always talk about
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What's the problem? Better Senegalese Akon than Boer Botha or whoever.
Diamonds are a commodity Africa has and others want. There's a market and we are the sellers. There are issues wrapped up in how those others go about obtaining them from Africa, but surely if Africans are owning and controlling the process to begin with it's less of a problem. I see this as a positive move. After all, don't we usually talk about investing in Africa ourselves?
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my point exactly.........i don't see what the problem is.....especially if it is true that he is paying people fairly, and providing them a safe working enviornment!
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Co sign... An African Working for Africa can only be a positvie thing
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