Stories about Malawi from December, 2006
Malawi: does Google know Soyapi Mumba?
Does Google know Soyapi Mumba, the Malawian blogger?, “I found it interesting to see that only Google suggests my name. Google will suggest the correct spelling of my name when you search for my name with a slight mistake in the spelling. Yahoo Search and Live Search don't.”
Malawi: how to get Internet access
Hacktivate has a post about a practical approach for getting Internet access in Malawi.
Malawi: declining Internet cafe rates
Mangaliso's World writes about Internet cafe rates in Malawi.
Malawi: language, politics, and development
Afrika-Aphukira writes about the intersection of language, politics, and development in Malawi, “The twin issues of language and politics are extremely important, and have consequences that affect the long-term development plans of any society.”
Africa: trailing in IP Per Capita
White African posts a chart showing IP per capita in the world, “African countries represent the bottom of the chart. Actually, 8 of the bottom 10 are African countries (Madacascar, Guinea-Bissau, Central African Republic, Burundi, Malawi, Ethiopia, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo). That’s not a good thing, but not altogether...
Africa: if I were not African
In a post titled, [They] don’t say “Malawi”; they just say “Africa.”, Sotho writes, “If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access...
