<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327</id><updated>2011-12-02T06:39:24.724-08:00</updated><title type='text'>my land</title><subtitle type='html'>African Life And Believes</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-248777242039490337</id><published>2009-06-11T05:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T05:12:13.387-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Has Africa Not Attracted More Interest From the U.S. Business Community?</title><summary type='text'>American investment in Africa has the potential to provide much-need jobs, access to healthcare, and generally improve standards of living. In fact, American corporations are becoming increasingly interested in investing in Africa, with some regarding it as the last big growth market, but they are often deterred by Africa’s negative image, a new study shows.US companies in some sectors, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/248777242039490337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=248777242039490337' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/248777242039490337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/248777242039490337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-has-africa-not-attracted-more.html' title='Why Has Africa Not Attracted More Interest From the U.S. Business Community?'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-nbPuUtG3s/SjD0c0mfo9I/AAAAAAAAAHg/Y50OBUmbB94/s72-c/thumb.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-8094878702444492129</id><published>2009-03-30T09:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T09:33:21.587-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lasting development in Africa</title><summary type='text'>Self Help Africa is an international development agency that works at grassroots level tackling poverty and improving lives in rural Africa.Self Help Africa's primary focus is assisting families and communities to grow enough food to feed themselves and to earn a sustainable living.Our all-African staff and local partners will this year help hundreds of thousands of people to work their way out </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/8094878702444492129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=8094878702444492129' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/8094878702444492129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/8094878702444492129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2009/03/lasting-development-in-africa.html' title='Lasting development in Africa'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-nbPuUtG3s/SdD0QEBSMdI/AAAAAAAAABo/CdlzuF9jaIE/s72-c/pig.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-8939007007398985261</id><published>2007-02-14T09:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-14T09:23:24.456-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who Is Your Best Friend?</title><summary type='text'>DepressionI’ve been fighting depression for six years. I’ve learned that I will never beat the evils of depression but now have a friend to talk with which keeps me emotionally well. Now when i feels depressed, i knows what to do. "I need to talk to someone. I can't sit back, because I get really sick."I learned healthier ways to deal with my feelings. "I need to take a deep breath if I'm about </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/8939007007398985261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=8939007007398985261' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/8939007007398985261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/8939007007398985261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2007/02/who-is-your-best-friend.html' title='Who Is Your Best Friend?'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-1160702037757417913</id><published>2007-02-13T04:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T04:03:07.522-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Child Labour Part 2</title><summary type='text'>Case Studies from around the NigeriaI wanted to go home I was told I never would. I didn't enjoy camel racing, I was really afraid. I fell off many times. When I won prizes several times, such as money and a car, the camel owner took everything. I never got anything, no money, nothing; my family also got nothing."Ahmed was only returned home after a Nigeria official identified him during a visit </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/1160702037757417913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=1160702037757417913' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/1160702037757417913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/1160702037757417913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2007/02/child-labour-part-2.html' title='Child Labour Part 2'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-566843512950898149</id><published>2007-02-13T04:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-21T08:11:02.407-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Child Labour Part 1</title><summary type='text'>What is child labour?Some types of work make useful, positive contributions to a child's development. Work can help children learn about responsibility and develop particular skills that will benefit them and the rest of society. Often, work is a vital source of income that helps to sustain children and their families.However, across the world, millions of children do extremely hazardous work in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/566843512950898149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=566843512950898149' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/566843512950898149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/566843512950898149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2007/02/child-labour-part-1.html' title='Child Labour Part 1'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-116524321746378871</id><published>2006-12-04T06:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T07:14:24.080-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Let The Rainbow Take Shape</title><summary type='text'>From the deep creeks of the Niger Delta to the sandy dunes that border the receding lake chad, and the bush paths that make it hard to tell whether it is the soil of Benin Republic or that of Nigeria’s Kwara State and the mountain ranges that allow us a glimpse of Benue, Cross Rivers State, and in fact Cameroon, I greet you the varied, the gifted and the long suffering people of our beloved </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/116524321746378871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=116524321746378871' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/116524321746378871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/116524321746378871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2006/12/let-rainbow-take-shape.html' title='Let The Rainbow Take Shape'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-114650762596563146</id><published>2006-05-01T11:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-23T08:50:35.556-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On Writing About Africa</title><summary type='text'>The flaws in Western writing on Africa are not hard to find, and are often bizarrely consistent. For example, Wendy Belcher wrote in Salon how nearly every travelogue on Africa begins on an airplane. Others have noticed how there are usually more animals than people, how Africans can never seem to help themselves, how they just can’t see things the right way. But now Kenyan writer Binyavanga </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/114650762596563146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=114650762596563146' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114650762596563146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114650762596563146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2006/05/on-writing-about-africa.html' title='On Writing About Africa'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-114650744592969434</id><published>2006-05-01T11:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-01T11:17:25.940-07:00</updated><title type='text'>READ ABOUT ME</title><summary type='text'>  I don,t know were to start writing about mine self, any way i wish you will get to know more after reading this. "With every day passing by, I try to better myself. I'm a perfectionist and with the success of each day, I wasn't sure about where my growth should be - as a performer, as a writer, as ,a vocalist. I always felt like I held something back on my presentations- on daily routines, I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/114650744592969434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=114650744592969434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114650744592969434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114650744592969434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2006/05/read-about-me.html' title='READ ABOUT ME'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-114447234894725068</id><published>2006-04-07T21:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-07T21:59:08.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>my land</title><summary type='text'>my land</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/114447234894725068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=114447234894725068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114447234894725068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114447234894725068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-land.html' title='my land'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25638327.post-114446418564058390</id><published>2006-04-07T19:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-12-21T08:11:02.429-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Africa insecurity</title><summary type='text'>Africa, a continent endowed with immense natural and human resources as well as great cultural, ecological and economic diversity, remains underdeveloped. Most African nations suffer from military dictatorships, corruption, civil unrest and war, underdevelopment and deep poverty. The majority of the countries classified by the UN as least developed are in Africa. Numerous development strategies </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/feeds/114446418564058390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25638327&amp;postID=114446418564058390' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114446418564058390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25638327/posts/default/114446418564058390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ucheland.blogspot.com/2006/04/africa-insecurity.html' title='Africa insecurity'/><author><name>uche</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05898363974979226756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
