The Musings of Faith

time-for-maps:

Languages of Africa.

Ibibio is on the map! Akwa Ibom isong-o!

kilele:

An infographic depicting the percentage share of formal firms that are owned by women in Africa.

Data from the World Bank.

via afrographique:

This will only increase. And its velocity will surprise many.

kilele:

African tweets: visualised

via almuntadatrust:

Good ole Twitter :)

Josh Brown, @reformedbroker

The Reformed Broker has become a fav of mine this year. I met him in NYC earlier this year in Feburary. Not too long after that, I followed him on Twitter. There are few stocks/bonds guys that I follow on Twitter. So I find it amusing that he hits faithmight.com 10 months later as a reblog. I look forward to the next. 

WHAT RECESSION??

kilele:

Infographic: African GPD Growth Rates in 2010. Data from the African Statistical Yearbook.

via afrographique:

(Fisher used U.S. Census data from 2000, he created a map where one dot equals 25 people. The dots are then color-coded based on race: White is pink; Black is blue; Hispanic is orange, and Asian is green. via Infographics of the Day: How Segregated Is Your City? | Co. Design)

A different view of The Bay.  LA is very different.

Just to give some perspective…

Love this! Pretty accurate according to my experience.

(via The Anatomy of a Forex Trader | Raghee Horner)

The above graph suggests that income inequality rather than sheer poverty is what leads to uprisings by the people. In both Tunisia and Egypt, the top 10% of the population take most of the country’s income for themselves and don’t leave much for the rest.

Morocco, Algeria, Gabon, and South Africa also seem to be in this category. While Nigeria and the other African countries don’t have such a huge income inequality.

Which means that the next uprising is more likely to happen in Algeria or Morocco rather than in Nigeria.

This is from the comments of this article and I couldn’t agree MORE.

mcentellas:

A New Gold Rush | The Wall Street Journal

An interactive feature on Africa’s current economic boom.

Invest in Africa NOW

Anyone with a website has this dilemma. The most successful websites know it and thus solve it beautifully. The worst websites are ignorant of the problem. Be the former. Design your information…..successfully.

(discovered on Art + Life = Design)

Since good governance is the start and impetus of real change and economic prosperity in Africa, it is important to see how the countries measure up. Pictured here are the top 20 ranked countries in the 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governance. Click on the chart to view the data in its entirety.

(via Mauritius top ranked country in 2010 Ibrahim Index | How We Made It In Africa)

shawnyeager:

This is your life.

(via trey)

ENOUGH SAID.

This supports the claims I have been making here, here and here. African countries have investment opportunities aplenty and the economic engine to power them. The time is now.

(via Statistics that take a fresh look at Africa - Venture Capital for Africa)