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Millennials should take care of aging parents

Being a millennia generation does not mean Contador Harrison will neglect his relatives who are aging given the expectations our static juice pruning folks, I have failed to understand why we are marginalizing certain persons in our day to day lives. Recently a blud who has made me hate marriage with a passion caved in to his wife demands by depositing his mother and father in a home for the aged, a move that annoyed me. The same wife has her aged parents being taken care of in the same environ but the foolish man trashed his biological parents to the aging dustbin. As a bloke brought up in urban life, I know it is not even a matter of the requirements of work, but a result of pure selfishness that led this 38 year old friend (I told him I will write about his case) to think that aging people are a bother in the home, they bring limitations and even to some buffoons odor smell. Oh, give me a break! Unless one is a duffer, we all know that there are f

Protecting women from sexual abuse

Whenever I listen to American Rock band Good Charlotte track Lifestyle of the rich and the famous it makes me think of lifestyle of the most heinous criminals in this world that include buffoons that perfect in the art of sexually abusing and harassing our women.As much as we try to feel complacent about the progress in giving our women equal footing with men,the world cannot ignore the fact that women are still very much on the losing side.Listen to Green Day hit song 21 st century breakdown and you’ll notice that we are no better than previous century when it comes to behavior.When we have the likes of the late Jimmy Savile of this world, the former BBC presenter, you will believe me that it’s still a men’s world out there.Watching the FIFA world player of the year ceremony the other day reminded the World which of the gender is superior and therefore must be honored last lest Television audience fall like a stick. In fact, it wasn’t too long ago when women were co

Africa's mobile users are embracing local apps

A new study shows that a rising number of mobile users are continuing to embrace the newest generation of mobile applications developed by African companies, who see a gold mine in the continent’s largely untapped potential for smartphone growth and this has made leading brands to sell phones with pre installed apps from Africa with most notable one being Samsung. Smartphones now make up a substantial proportion of total phone shipments to Africa with low end android powers phones costing as low as $35 and there is a 31% of the projected 50 million mobile devices to be shipped this year in the region will be smartphones, compared to 8 percent of the 39 million devices in 2013 and the numbers can only go up. The researchers credit the trend to the proliferation of cheap Android phones and the free apps available for that operating system. Previous studies have confirmed that Africa is an absolutely app-hungry market although its clear that only 1.5% of Africans have will to

Fixing tax system key to development in Africa

African countries domestic consumption has been one of the key drivers of gross domestic product growth in the past decade as rising incomes have spurred Africans to spend more from Durban to Cairo and from Dakar to Dar es Salaam. According to 2013 figures, such spending continues to boost the retail sector and created hundreds of thousands of new jobs every year in sub Saharan Africa. The same has led to the establishment of new companies and the emergence of new ideas. Statistics show that the service sector especially tourism has been one of the stellar performers of the economies in Africa. However, the government’s of East Africa plan to raise tax on consumer goods ranging from mobile phones, airtime, mobile money transfer that has lifted millions out of poverty and created millions of direct and indirect jobs should be carefully considered and that is why I wasn’t amused to read their content in last years government budgets in the region. Already many businesses in