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South Africa is Not Sub Saharan Africa

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The improvement of the world needs to be highly contextualised. In fact, everything needs context to be relevant.The above video of Hans Rosling is mind-bending. At the 15 minute mark he talks about Africa and how we cannot provide a single solution to a problem like HIV/Aids. We need to provide a contextualised solution for each and every region being dealt with.This is true of almost every interaction that I have with businesses and individuals (local or foreign) wanting to target Africa. It's phenomenal how shallow our understand is of the vastness of the continent when it comes to culture, language, societal norms, likes and dislikes.Africa is not a country just as South Africa is not a reference to a region.Educate yourself.

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Amatomu adds 6 month stats graph

With the recent announcement of Afrigator's changes, updates, movements and developments it seems that Amatomu has upped their game and their focus on stats.Have a look at the new graph from Amatomu stats page:6monthstats.jpg

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Amatomu drops unique counter on graph

It seems as though Amatomu has changed their stats counter/graph somewhat. Strange that no one else has picked this up:ama.jpgNote that there is no BLUE line as there has been in the past. That blue line was, if memory serves me correctly, for unique users visiting your site.That line is no more. Maybe this has something to do with the massive growth that the site is experiencing. I'm sure we'll be hearing from Vincent soon on the issue as there is nothing on the developments blog.

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