create &lsquo;a hate-free, greed-free&rsquo; continent. Their acquired knowledge and skills were essential for the future of Africa, he said.

Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye, from Kaduna in northern Nigeria, whose story of personal reconciliation is captured in the documentary film The Imam and the Pastor, were welcomed to the British Parliament in London last night.

Two former rival militia leaders turned peacemakers from Nigeria brought their message of reconciliation and forgiveness to London yesterday. Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye from Kaduna, who in the early 1990s were sworn enemies out to kill each other, spoke at the UK launch of An African Answer.Brief history

International standardization of electrical plugs and sockets for domestic use

Harvey Hubbell's "Separable Attachment Plug"

(patented in 1904) - allowed for non-bulb devices

to be plugged into a light socket for power - was

designed with a simple intention:

"My invention has for its object to...do away with

the possibility of arcing or sparking in making

connection, so that electrical power in buildings

may be utilized by persons having no electrical

knowledge or skill."

Plugs: not immediately in focus

The IEC was founded in 1906 to provide a platform to scientists so that they could build on each other's research and stimulate the development and commercialization of electrical technology and machinery.

In 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis scientists and engineers from around the world realized for the first time that standards for electrotechnology were urgently needed.

The