African Dream is broadcast on the BBC Network Africa programme every Monday morning.

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Craft Silicon is where hundreds of other African software companies dream to be, and Kamal Budhabatti is the one who made it all happen.

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And in African eyes the American dream has lately been given a new fillip by the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the American son of a Muslim from Kenya.

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The African side made a dream start to this season's series, winning the first two tournaments, but lost 7-0 in a tense quarter-final to New Zealand in Wellington before going on to win the second-tier Plate competition.

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For African Americans, it was a dream denied until 150 years ago, when a great emancipator called for the end of slavery.

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The African Cultural Regeneration Institute (ACRI) is providing the dream, inspiration and guidance.

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"It's been 45 years since Dr. King spoke about 'I Have a Dream, ' " said Lenny McAllister, an African-American conservative blogger, referring to the Rev.

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But first, for many African Americans the idea of tracing a family tree has been little more than a dream.

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He allows his sitters to select the backdrop for their picture and, although these exuberant canvases of dream homes, high-tech living rooms and gleaming cityscapes owe much to the conventions of African sign painters and folk artists, they talk of the aspirations of modern Ghanaians.

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