Kenya: We Media

Kenyan Pundit posts a piece on the Africa session of the recent WeMedia event in London. Wilfred Kiboro was also on the panel and she posts an audio clip of...

Kenya: Mid air scare

You Missed This reports on a Kenyan airways mid air scare that took place yesterday. The plane was on it's way from Nairobi to Dar-es-salaam. (the plane) “went through a...

African Music #8

I recently had a discussion with a friend about fair trade and it threw up some deep questions about African music. Who really owns the rights to the recordings? Who...

Kenyan Blogosphere Dispatch

We begin this roundup with a very cute video by the GV Swahili bridge-blogger Ndesanjo, he shares this video in his post on video blogging. It is of a young...

Voices of African Women

Afromusing continues her excellent reports on solar power in Africa. She has opened up her blog to take questions on alternative energy in Africa and here she answers a question...

African Diaspora: Hard times for Africans in France and Belgium

Several francophone blogs have tackled African immigrants’ latest tribulations in France and Belgium. Choosing Immigrants Le Pangolin criticizes French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest round of immigration policies. The blogger...

Kenyan Villager writes on discovering computers and technology in the 90s and his recent venture with blogging…”One latter-day event was the dicovery of the blogging world in late 2005 and...

Kenya: Sexual offences bill

Kenyan Pundit adds her voice to the commentary on the Sexual Offences Bill presently being debated in the Kenyan parliament. In particular she provides a legal perspective on the Bill.

Europe: racism in football

MentalAcrobatics writes on racism in European football and points to a newly formed group “the African Council” based in Berlin, Germany who plan to “publish a guide warning about areas...

Kenya: Source of the Nile

Uganisha has an interesting post on the source of the Nile and gives a brief summary of the searh by explorers, Richard Burton and John Speke in search of a...

Broadening Blogging in Africa by Radio

Some members of the audience may have been sceptical – “blogging is too complex… where is the power for the connection, the internet is still a luxury” was the comment...

Kenya: Sexual Offences Bill

What an African Woman Thinks also comments on the Kenyan draft Sexual Offences Bill and writes her comments in list form which leaves her “all over the place and nowhere...

Kenya: Sexual Offences Bill

The draft controversial Sexual Offences Bill presently being debated in Kenya is the subject of much discussion in the Kenyan blogosphere. Gukira comes down firmly against the bill and posts...

African women’s blogsphere this week

African women have been blogging about the important Kenyan Sexual Offences Bill which members of parliament are currently deliberating. The bill seeks seeks tougher penalties against rape and has been...

Kenya: No means No not yes!

Au Lait writes about the recent comment by a Kenyan member of parliament during the debate on the Sexual Offences Bill that when women say no they mean yes.….”We (yes...

Kenya: Going home

Bankekele has advice on how to travel to his home town in Kenya, what you need to take with you and what to expect once you arrive…”