Across the miles.Website for Africans worldwide If you're looking to broaden your world view -- whether it's for business opportunities or education -- look beyond your borders to Africast.com. Launched in August 1999 by John Sarpong, the site provides news, business, entertainment, and community features to connect the African diaspora The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia. . The Community section, for example, features multilingual e-mail and text chat as well as voice chat and instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or . Of note, however, is the extensive information on health and immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. issues such as asylum, visa petitions, deportation deportation, expulsion of an alien from a country by an act of its government. The term is not applied ordinarily to sending a national into exile or to committing one convicted of crime to an overseas penal colony (historically called transportation). , and naturalization naturalization, official act by which a person is made a national of a country other than his or her native one. In some countries naturalized persons do not necessarily become citizens but may merely acquire a new nationality. -- and in-depth coverage of African news. The site also offers members the opportunity to launch an online store by providing a soup-to-nuts e-commerce package that includes everything from setup to catalog creation to site maintenance. And members can participate in the Africast Marketplace to gain access to international opportunities via African chambers of commerce. And with Africast Mobile, the information goes with you via your wireless device. The site is rounded out by a romance section and entertainment features, such as a music channel, videos, fashion, and movie information, all with a distinctly African flair. |
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