Hi Cindy,
Thanks for suggestion, we will check it with our hosting company. Usually Afroshanghai was slow of access from outside China, not within (I suppose you are in China now), due essentially to the Great Firewall. Probably we are closing on the server limitations or we need to do some upgrade to the forum software. Anyway we will make sure to enable Afroshanghai members to visit the site without having to wait for 10~20mn for a single page to open

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Thanks for your support,
The Afroshanghai team