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Edwin Okong'o
2008-05-01, Issue 367
I had been out of journalism school for barely two weeks when Julia Opoti, a friend and an editor at Kenya Imagine, a popular online discussion forum for Kenyans, sent a text message to my cell phone. My name, she wrote, had been the subject of anoth...
Africa’s Social Media Conundrum
Sokari Ekine
2008-04-24, Issue 365
“Web 2.0 [is] a venture capitalist’s paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill off the decentralizing potential of peer-to-peer production.”...
African Blog Review – 4/17/2008
Dibussi Tande
2008-04-17, Issue 363
Kenyan Pundit http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/16/challenges-of-the-grand-coalition-part-1guest-post/ Kenyan Pundit identifies the key chall...
African Blog Review: Focus on Zimbabwe
Dibussi Tande
2008-04-09, Issue 361
This week, many African bloggers focused on the twin elections in Zimbabwe, analyzing and commenting on the competing claims of victory, the rumors and sometimes outlandish allegations that have been coming from that country. ...
How bloggers covered Kenya violence, deal with racism, sexism
Sokari Ekine
2008-03-26, Issue 357
Within 24 hours of the outbreak of the post election violence in Kenya, Kenyan blogs were posting hour by hour reports. On December 31st there was a complete shutdown of the mainstream media. Sokari Ekine, who blogs at [url=http://www.blacklooks.org,...
Review of the African Blogosphere – March 20, 2008
Dibussi Tande
2008-03-20, Issue 355
The blog on natural resource issues in Liberia by
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Political Turmoil in Cameroon: What the African Blogosphere is saying
Dibussi Tande
2008-03-12, Issue 353
For close to two decades, Cameroon was considered a bastion of stability in Africa, that is, until last week when that veneer was shattered by four days of widespread rioting. The riots were triggered by a hike in fuel prices amidst ongoing attempts by the Biya regime to scrap presidential term limits. Here is a review of some of the blogs that wrote about these events. ...
Africa Blogging Roundup
International Women’s Day, African billionaires, guerrilla entrepreneurs and racism in South Africa
Sokari Ekine
2008-03-12, Issue 353
Kenyan Pundit reports on Kenyan Women’s March for piece as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations last Saturday....
Roundup of South African Bloggers
Sokari Ekine
2008-02-26, Issue 349
My Haven by Matuba Mahlatjie....
Review of Adrican blogs – February 21, 2008
Dibussi Tande
2008-02-21, Issue 347
Everything Literature reprints an interview of Nigerian playwright Shehu Sani, whose play, Phantom Crescent, has been condemned for criticizing the application of Shari’a law in Northern Nigeria. In the interview, the author, argues that: ...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2008-02-14, Issue 345
The Moor Next Door discusses the Arabic language and how it influences “Arabic political and cultural discourse” and considers whether the “explosiveness and poetic” nature of the language leads to “radical Islam”....
Review of African Blogs – 02/07/2008
Dibussi Tande
2008-02-07, Issue 343
Ken Opalo comments on the continued inability of the Zimbabwean opposition to join forces in time for the forthcoming presidential elections: ...
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2008-01-31, Issue 341
Kenerry Bird ...
African Blogging Review
Sokari Ekine
2008-01-16, Issue 337
Kenya continues to dominate the African blogosphere as the ODM opposition begin three days of protests against the election.
[url=http://www.kenyanpund...
Kenya bloggers on Kenyan Electorial Crisis
Sokari Ekine
2008-01-09, Issue 335
White African comments that sometimes the only thing you can do in a crisis is report what you see. Using technology from google maps he takes Kenyan Pundit’s (see below) suggestion and creates a mashup of incidents reported by citizens....
Review of African Blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-12-19, Issue 333
The drawn-out and acrimonious battle for the Presidency of South Africa’s ruling Party, the ANC, came to an end this week with the election of Jacob Zuma during ...
Review of African Blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-12-06, Issue 331
Mirror of Justices writes about the improvement of the food situation in Malawi after the government ignored advice from the World Bank and USAID and subsidized fertilizer and seed to farmers:...
The Bush Bloggers - WildlifeDirect
Dipesh Pabari
2007-12-05, Issue 331
When Bob Dylan was singing about the times changing, I doubt he had in mind a Maasai Moran or a Turkana pastoralist in full traditional regalia negotiating the price of cattle on the international market with a mobile phone in some distant arid landscape, writes Dipesh Pabari.
Review of Africa Blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-11-22, Issue 329
One of the leading topics on the African blogosphere this week is AFRICOM, the United States Africa Command. Crossed Crocodiles reflects the general mood among African bloggers with his argument that AFRICOM has no place in Africa:...
Review of African blog portals and aggregators
Sokari Ekine
2007-11-13, Issue 328
This weeks roundup will focus on some of the new African blog portals, aggregators, social bookmarking and technology blogs. Portals The two main blog portals are African Path and African Loft. Both portals have a list of regular authors som...
Review of African Blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-11-08, Issue 327
Chika Okeke-Agulu comments on the death of pioneer Nigerian novelist Cyprian Ekwensi: ...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-10-30, Issue 326
Oro, Gbenga Sesan’s blog reports from the Africa Connect conference behind held in Kigali Rwanda. The statistics on Africa’s internet usage and broadband take up is clearly depressing and there is an urgent need for governments to take action as Gbenga writes:...
Review of African Blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-10-24, Issue 325
One of the most commented issues in the African blogosphere has been the tragic death of South African Reggae star Lucky Dube. The sadness and anger at his death has been accompanied by widespread belief that South Africa’s crime rate is spiraling out of control. As African Loft writes:...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-10-16, Issue 324
AfriGadget World junk – Africa recycles! I find my more and more ...
Review of African Blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-10-10, Issue 323
Writing on The Zelela Post Pius Adesami adopts the persona of Sarah Baartman, the so-called "the Hottentot Venus", to ask why no African feminist theorist is included in the recently published Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader (by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar) which traces the evolution of feminist writing from the middle ages to the 21st century:...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-10-02, Issue 322
Oluwole Akindutire of African Loft celebrates Nigeria’s 47th year of independence and asks “Nigeria at 47: Who are our heroes?” and lists 10 of his. A somewhat strange list that includes, Mungo Park, four head’s of state (3 rolled into one) and possibly the strangest of all “the British business men called colonialists”!...
Review of African blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-09-26, Issue 321
Dispatches from the Trench comments on the suspension of South African Chief Prosecutor, Vusi Pikoli, by President Thabo Mbeki: ...
Review of African blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-08-29, Issue 317
Dibussi Tande, who produces the blog Scribbles from the Den, brings this week's selection which covers: Zambians living abroad; the vulnerabilities of South Africa; identity and belonging in Africa; political invovlement and the younger generation in Malawi; persecution of members of the African LGBTI community in a number of African countries; and the elections held in Cameroon in July 2007.
Review of African Blogs
Dibussi Tande
2007-07-25, Issue 314
Afromusing comments on Uganda’s reversal of its longstanding “ABC strategy” for combating AIDS. Afromusings wonders whether this strategy is being abandoned because of strings attached to United States financial aid. ...
Review of African blogs
2007-07-11, Issue 312
Addax comments on a disturbing report from the Times (UK) on Phillip Morris and British American Tabacco (BAT) targeting yourng and children in Nigeria to become smokers....
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