Stories about Sub-Saharan Africa from August, 2005
Blog Day 2005
Blog Day 2005 is making waves throughout the global blogosphere. The one-day celebration, which encourages bloggers to introduce their readers to five new weblogs from other cultures or perspectives, has...
Nigeria: No problem with China textiles
Chippla echoes a view also seen elsewhere in the African blogosphere; why does the West have a problem with the flood of cheap Chinese textiles to hit world ports since...
Uganda: Forced into prostitution
NGO worker Stephen Okello blogs about a conversation with a woman who was forced into prostitution to keep her children alive in war-torn northern Uganda. Many others share her fate,...
Zimbabwe: Totalitarian dream
Under constitutional changes just signed into law by President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabweans will not be allowed to travel freely if they are deemed “a threat to national security”, laments Zimpundit.
Ethiopia: The president reacts
Nazret.com's Ethioblog posts the response of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to criticisms of the country's elections by EU monitors.
Guinea: Private broadcasters allowed
The West African state of Guinea has become the last in the region to allow private broadcasters to operate, reports Black Star Journal.
Kenya: Imagine you are a girl
Arjen Westra (AfrikaReporter) hopes that the rights of women will be better protected in Kenya's new constitution.
Bolivia, South Africa: Microlending
Miguel of MABB points to some positive coverage of Bolivia's microlending industry from South Africa.
Blogs of the World, Aggregate!
Boris Anthony, our good friend and Global Voices’ beloved graphic designer/toolsmith, recently offered this observation: “….In the last 6 months, I have not worked on a single ‘weblog': it's all...
Sudan: Why the silence over Darfur rapes?
Sudan: The Passion of the Present posts an open letter to the United Nations from Eve Ensler, asking why the UN has kept so quiet about the systematic use of...
Nigeria: Web site hacked by Turks
Afrotecnik reports on a hacker attack on a Nigerian Web site by suspected Turkish hackers.
African hunger an established norm
African Bullets and Honey‘s MMK reflects sadly on the implications of Plumpy'nut, a famine relief product specifically designed to be shipped in to African countries to avert starvation.
Cote d'Ivoire: Mr Ziglibithy
Benn loxo has a guest blog about a guitarist from the Cote d'Ivoire who brought a traditional musical form called ziglibithy into a musical world dominated by post-independence francophone pop...
African Women: At the end of the rainbow
All African (Self Help) Bazaar reports on the work of the NGO Rainbo, especially in working against female circumcision/female genital mutilation in African countries.
Zimbabwe: Constitutional changes
Zimpundit foresees further erosion of property rights and other potential abuses resulting from the proposed 17th amendment to Zimbabwe's constitution.
Ethiopia: June 8 massacre
Ethiopundit compiles accounts of the June 8 massacre of civilians in Addis Ababa.
Sudan: Shotgun wedding
Sleepless in Sudan hears about panic and gunfire in the troubled region of Darfur, only to discover that the shots were fired in honor of a newly-wed couple.
Nigeria: Bloggers unite
Kazey Journal has set up a new site, nigerianbloggers.com, aimed at bringing Nigerian bloggers together, and calls for volunteers to help run it.
Nigeria: Follow the money
Black Looks reports on investigations into the financial affairs of Nigeria's vice-president, Atiku Abubakar.
English, Bilingual, and Political Bloggers in Tanzanian Blogosphere
For reasons that are mainly attributed to Tanzania‘s post independence political ideology of Ujamaa, which emphasized strong national identity through the extensive use of Kiswahili, the dominant language in the...
Sudan: Day for Darfur
The Passion of the Present flags “A Day for Darfur”, an event to be held outside the White House in Washington, DC on Sept 8.
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