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Sokari Ekine
2007-06-20, Issue 309
Black Kush An uplifting short piece from the Sudan. Kush reports on a huge animal migration (to rival that of Serengeti) in Southern Sudan:...
Review of East African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-06-13, Issue 308
Continuing regional review of African blogs. This week East Africa.
Review of West African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-06-06, Issue 307
Continuing with regional reviews - this week West African blogs.
Review of North African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-05-22, Issue 305
Over the coming weeks we will be focusing on regional coverage, starting this week with North Africa.
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-05-16, Issue 304
Sarkozy and immigration; wind power from recycled materials in Kenya; cricket in Zimbabwe.
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-05-09, Issue 303
Kenyan Airways crash; keeping an eye on the Kenyan parliament; Nigerian elections; and new technology from Kenyan developers.
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-05-02, Issue 302
Violence against women; the power of the gun; why white racists should stop blaming hip hop!
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-04-25, Issue 301
Cancer Survivors and comments on the Virginia massacre from African bloggers
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-04-18, Issue 300
Nigerian elections; environment riots in Uganda; language policy in Senegal.
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-04-11, Issue 299
ICTs for kids in Ghana, seven pillars of Middle East [un]reality, Easter eggs and chocolate crucifixes, and coming to terms with sexual minorities
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-04-04, Issue 298
Two new blogs, one from Senegal and one from South Africa; election report from Lesotho and housing issues in Johannesburg.
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-03-27, Issue 297
Under the Acacias reports on a return to traditional building materials and methods in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso.
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-03-21, Issue 296
Climate Change, Nigerian presidential websites, Miss Landmine Angola beauty contest
Murder and torture in Zimbabwe
Sokari Ekine
2007-03-14, Issue 295
This passed week has seen the government of Mugabe reach an all time low in the violence committed against Zimbabwean citizens. Following the murder of the MDC activist, Gift Tandare, and the arrest and torture of senior MDC officials, including leader Morgan Tsvangirai, one begins to wonder whether this is the final push of Mugabe before he falls over the abyss and the people of Zimbabwe can begin finally to rebuild the country he has devastated economically and morally.
International Women's Day
Review of blogs by African women
Sokari Ekine
2007-03-07, Issue 294
8 March is International Women’s Day. So the focus this week will be on blogs by African women. There are probably hundreds of blogs by African women on the continent and in the diaspora. Therefore selecting six was not an easy task. I have chosen the following because they are either consistent and have been publishing for over a year (keeping a blog consistently is no easy task) or they are exceptional in content or style.
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-02-28, Issue 293
Ugandan art, visa hassles and single women travellers in Kenya.
Review of West African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-02-21, Issue 292
Mountain race in Cameroon, farce in Nigerian elections and US military interests in the Niger Delta are all part of this weeks blogosphere discussions.
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-02-14, Issue 291
Recyled oil rigs providing wind power in Nigeria and what could possibly go wrong with Nigeria's forthcoming elections!
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-02-07, Issue 290
To all prospective and existing long titled bloggers – Cut the long titles please! Trials and Tribulations - Trials and Tribulations (http://ekbensahinghana.blogspot.com/2007/01/as-week-draws-to-close-in-accra.html) E K Bensah’s blog – the title i...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-01-31, Issue 289
Crime denial in South Africa, corruption in Nigeria and searching for Africa in Cape Town.
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-01-17, Issue 286
'Ethiopian Life' reports on the Somalia media, which has been under attack:...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2007-01-09, Issue 285
During 2006 the number of blogs by Africans at home and in the Diaspora more than doubled. However, they are still the least applied of all the emerging technologies (email, listserves, forums and IM) largely due to cost, slow internet speeds and a general unawareness of the medium. Despite this, African blogs have been able to challenge governments on issues such as corruption, human rights, economic policy and social justice in their respective countries (often anonymously) in ways that could not have been possible without risking arrest or harassment in the past....
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-12-20, Issue 283
The film Blood Diamonds is the focus of a number of blog posts this week. 'Black Star Journal' - Black Star Journal (blackstarjournal.blogspot.com/2006/12/blood-diamonds.html) comments on an article in the Christian Science Monitor that a “self policing process appears to be cleaning up the industry” which he sees as a model for NGOs to effect positive change in international affairs....
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-12-13, Issue 282
Burundi blog, ‘Agathon Rwasa’ introduces a new blog called ‘Breaking the Cycle Youth Council’...
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-12-06, Issue 281
'African Shirts' - African Shirts (http://africanshirts.blogspot.com/2006/11/nigerias-finest.html) points to a report by Amnesty International on the rape of Nigerian women by the Nigerian police force:...
Review of Blogs by African Women
Sokari Ekine
2006-11-29, Issue 280
This week in the review of African blogs, I am going to focus solely on blogs by African women. The number of women blogging has quadrupled over the past year and each week more and more African women in the homeland and the Diaspora are blogging. The majority could be described as journals – postings on thoughts and daily experiences - but there are also a number of blogs that, for example, specifically deal with politics, social justice, sexuality and literature....
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-11-22, Issue 279
'African Blogs' describes his experience in the town of Juba in Southern Sudan....
Review of African blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-11-15, Issue 278
********************************************************************************************** Blacklooks.org, run by Sokari Ekine, has won the public choice for the Best Weblog in English by the Bobs Award (http://www.thebobs.com/). She is far too ...
Blogs to Botha: Goodbye and good riddance
Sokari Ekine
2006-11-06, Issue 277
Kameelahwrites - KameelahWritew (http://kameelahwrites.blogspot.com/2006/11/mandela-say-it-aint-so-are-you-really.html) comments on the tributes made by South African President, Thabo Mbeki and former president Nelson Mandela on the death of PW Botha, who she describes as the “defiant face of apartheid”. She writes:...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-10-24, Issue 275
'Scribbles in the Den' - Scribbles in the Den (http://www.dibussi.com/) points to a Reporters Without Borders report on the 2006 “Worldwide Press Freedom Index”. The good news is that some African countries are mov...
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