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RSS FeedReview of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-10-18, Issue 274
'Kubatana Blogs' - Kubatana Blogs (http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=19) points to an article by Zimbabwean cartoonist, Tony Namate on the Zimbabwean Domestic Violence Bill. Namate wants a bill that covers all violence - not just domestic violence - that would include baby dumping, abortion, and failing to report violence. He also believes “that women engaging in indecent exposure should be arrested”....
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-10-11, Issue 273
'NGOMROM' - NGOMROM (http://ngomrom.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-not-torpedo-peace-talks-in-juba.html) provides his perspective on the Juba peace talks between Sudan...
Review of African blogs - Focus on Kenya and East Africa
Sokari Ekine
2006-10-04, Issue 272
The Kenyan blogging community is one of the largest in Africa. 18 months ago the Kenyan Unlimited online community was created for Kenyans and friends of Kenya. It consists of a webring and an aggregator of all members’ blogs. Earlier this year the KU community held their first Kaybees Blog Awards under 13 categories. ...
Review of African blogs - Focus on West Africa
Sokari Ekine
2006-09-27, Issue 271
Over the next few weeks the blog roundup will have more of a regional focus. This week the focus is on West Africa. ‘Under the Acacias’ - Under the Acacias...
Review of African blogs - Global Day of Action for Darfur
Sokari Ekine
2006-09-19, Issue 270
This past Sunday marked the Global Day of Action for Darfur. The aim was “to show world-wide support for the Darfuri people and to put pressure on our Governments to protect the civilians.” A number of African bloggers posted special pieces to mark the day....
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-09-12, Issue 269
'African Bullets & Honey' - African Bullets & Honey (http://bulletsandhoney.blogspot.com/2006/09/is-digital-indaba-internet-berlin.html) takes issue with t...
Review of African Blogs
Sokari Ekine
2006-09-06, Issue 268
Zimbabwean blog ‘Enough is Enough’- Enough is Enough (http://enoughzimbabwe.org/tsvangirai-suprise-march-surprisingly-late)comments on opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai’s march from the MDC party headquarters to parliament last Friday. He wonders if the march, which was reported as being a “surprise”, was really that much of a surprise to the Zimbabwean authorities....
African Blogs This Week
Sokari Ekine
2006-08-29, Issue 267
Mshairi Mshairi (http://www.mshairi.com/blog/2006/08/29/we-are-all-african/)comments on Hollywood’s latest fad: the appropriation of Africa and Africans by big names such as Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow (who appears in a photo with the words “I am African” written across the picture for the ‘Keep a Child Alive’ AIDS project). Mshairi questions the motives behind both the project and the likes of Paltrow and others....
African Blog Roundup
Sokari Ekine
2006-08-23, Issue 266
White African - White African (http://whiteafrican.com/?p=262) is a blog largely devoted to developing communication technology ideas in Africa. In this post he is asking why there is a lack of interest from e-commerce sites on the potential of the African market:...
African Blogs: Ethiopia and Somalia, Lebanon, Slavery and Pidgin
Sokari Ekine
2006-07-26, Issue 265
As we near the first democratic elections in nearly 40 years in the DRC, yet another self-serving conflict is brewing in Africa. This time it is between Somalia and Ethiopia....
The African Blogosphere
Sokari Ekine
2006-07-18, Issue 264
African in America - African in America (http://youngandreal.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-take-on-race.html) writes about being made to feel guilty by Africans and African Americans because he “does not hate white people”. ...
Blogs for African Women
Sokari Ekine
2006-07-18, Issue 264
This week the BAWo (Blogs for African Women) project came to an end. The project begun as an idea in January this year with the aim of introducing young African women to blogging. 15 girls aged between 11 and 13 were selected together with 23 mentors. Each week two mentors would introduce a topic and the girls would blog on that topic. The actual blogging began in early May with some initial unanticipated difficulties....
African Blog Roundup
Sokari Ekine
2006-07-12, Issue 263
Mantis Thoughts From a Hot Rock – Mantis thoughts from a hot rock (http://pearl-island.blogspot.com/2006/07/world-united.html) writing for Reunion Island comments on the passing of the World Cup and the reportage from the local media on the French team. Amidst all the fanfare, Marine Le Pen (the daughter of French National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen) arrived on the Island. ...
African Blogosphere
Sokari Ekine
2006-07-04, Issue 262
African Painters - African Painters (http://africanpainters.blogspot.com/2006/06/suzanne-ouedraogo-from-burkina-faso.html) comments on the work of Burkina Faso artist, Suzanne Ouedraogo who uses her art as a way of protesting against the practice of female circumcision. Her paintings present are a courageous, powerful picture of this horrendous violation of the female body. He accompanies the paintings with a poem on female circumcision by Nigerian poet, Chinwe Azubuike. ...
The week in the African blogosphere
Sokari Ekine
2006-06-29, Issue 261
Ethiopian blogger, Weichegud!ET Politics Weichegud!ET Politics (http://weichegud.blogspot.com/2006/06/letter-to-paul-wolfowitz.html) writes an open letter to World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz who is soon to visit Ethiopia. She writes eloquently on the realities of Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Meles Zenawi and what she expects from the US:...
The week in the blogosphere
Sokari Ekine
2006-06-21, Issue 260
EthioPundit (http://ethiopundit.blogspot.com/2006/06/catch-up.html) comments on “ethnic, religious and tribal politics” in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigray. For Ethiopundit the issue is “dead” and questions whether the “TPLF represents the interests of Tigrayans or that the OLF represents the interests of Oromos”....
The World Cup and other blogging debates
Sokari Ekine
2006-06-14, Issue 259
As World Cup fever hits the blogosphere, African Shirts - (http://africanshirts.blogspot.com/2006/06/im-moving-to-trinidad.html) follows the Trinidad & Tobago vs Sweden world cup match and decides he is moving to T&T. ...
African Blogs This Week
Sokari Ekine
2006-05-31, Issue 257
South African Diaspora (http://www.southafricandiaspora.org/archives/2006/05/30/take-take-take/) raises some interesting points about Africans leaving to work abroad in the West. He goes into considerable detail about skilled and unskilled labour and the cost for Africa to educate it’s skilled workforce who then leave....
Censorship, Arab Africa relationships and failed electricity supplies
Sokari Ekine
2006-05-24, Issue 256
The main story this week has been the alleged blocking of blogs by the Ethiopian government. Several Ethiopian bloggers have reported that they have not been able to access Blogspot blogs (blogger.com) from within and outside the country. ...
Voices from the African Blogosphere
Sokari Ekine
2006-05-17, Issue 255
Nigerian blogger Chippla (http://chippla.blogspot.com/2006/05/need-to-amend-nigerian-constitution.html) explains that there is more to the constitutional amendments in Nigeria than extending Obasanjo’s tenure from two to three years. ...
Freedom for Egyptians and Khwezi's trial
Sokari Ekine
2006-05-10, Issue 254
The two big stories on the African Blogosphere this week are the arrest of 10 Egyptian activists, including blogger Alaa Abd El-Fatah, last Sunday and the acquittal of Jacob Zuma on charges of rape in South Africa. Due to the large number of posts I am only including the Blog name and a short quote from each. ...
Africa blog round up
Sokari Ekine
2006-05-02, Issue 253
Egyptian blogger, Baheyya (http://baheyya.blogspot.com/2006/04/on-eve-of-hearing.html) reports on the arrest of peaceful demonstrators holding a vigil in support of judges campaigning for judicial independence. ...
African Blog Roundup
Sokari Ekine
2006-04-26, Issue 252
African Shirts (http://africanshirts.blogspot.com/2006/04/carmen-with-clicks.html) discusses the vibrancy of the South African film industry which he compares with that of the Francophone African countries and Nigeria’s Nollywood. Two of the latest films from SA are U-Carmen eKhayelitsha and Oscar winning Tsotsi. ...
Africa Blogging This Week
Sokari Ekine
2006-04-19, Issue 251
Zambian blog, Real Life of a Journalist (http://oliviaphiri.blogspot.com/2006/04/making-icts-accessible-to-women-by.html) writes on how to make ICTs more accessible to women. Technology has been traditionally “male” in both its construct and usage. She praises the coming of FOSS but writes that it is not user friendly and requires a certain level of technology literacy. She believes one way to overcome technophobia and illiteracy is to start teaching ICTs at primary school level. ...
Africa blog round-up
Sokari Ekine
2006-04-12, Issue 250
Chippla (http://chippla.blogspot.com/2006/04/price-of-disloyalty.html) writes on the ongoing “3rd term” battle between Obasanjo and his supporters and the growing opposition in Nigeria to the idea. In particular he focuses on the disagreement on the issue between the President and Vice President, Atiku Abubakar: ...
Africa Blogging This Week
Sokari Ekine
2006-04-05, Issue 249
Kenyan blogger and Africa’s resident environmental guru, AfroMusing (http://www.afromusing.com/blog/?p=211) points to a post on using African deserts as hubs for solar energy. The idea is that the Sahara, which is some 9 million sq km and the Kalahari which is 900,000 sq km, could be used as solar energy farms to supply cheap electricity for the continent. AfroMusing quotes Anatole France, who wrote:...
The week in the blogosphere
Sokari Ekine
2006-03-27, Issue 248
Nigeria has just completed it’s latest census which does not include religion or ethnicity. Naijablog (http://naijablog.blogspot.com/2006/03/on-nigerian-languages-ethnicities-and.html) wonders exactly how many languages are spoken in Nigeria as depending on your source, the numbers differ. The number ranges from 250 to 500. ...
The missionary position and other comments
Sokari Ekine
2006-03-22, Issue 247
Diary of a Mad Kenyan Woman (http://madkenyanwoman.blogspot.com/2006/03/outing-heterosexuality.html) writes an essay entitled “Outing Heterosexuality” in which she discusses the inability of Africans to deal with any discussion on sexuality that is not limited to:...
Africa Blogging This Week: Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Morocco, DRC
Sokari Ekine
2006-03-15, Issue 246
This is Zimbabwe (http://zimpundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/arm-cache-political-faux-pas.html) comments on the latest conspiracy theory that the Harare government is “falling apart”. This time it is the release of one of the eight arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill Mugabe. “MDC's Brian James, a treasurer for the party's Manicaland structure was released yesterday, but gagged from spewing details about how porous the investigation still is.” The investigators are busy weaving more spin on the assassination plot:...
Bloggers honour African Women
Sokari Ekine
2006-03-08, Issue 245
On International Women’s Day, African bloggers chose to honour ordinary African women who through their lives, their courage and spirit become extraordinary examples to us all.
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