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· July, 2005

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Stories about Sub-Saharan Africa from July, 2005

Podcasting/Video Blogging Workshop in Accra Next Thursday

I just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be conducting a podcasting and videoblogging workshop in Accra next week. It's currently scheduled for Thursday, July 21 at 14:00 GMT at the offices of African Security Dialogue and Research. Their office is located on Kofi Annan Avenue, just off Atomic Agency Road, North Legon. If you're in Accra and would like to attend, please RSVP to Amos Anyimadu at accraboy @ fastmail.fm, in case the time or location changes. I hope to see some of you there! -andy

Written by Andy Carvin
15 July 2005

Commentary

Laurence Caromba, writing in the South African group blog Commentary, points out the difficulties that the home-grown London bombers pose for political theory: “it robs the neoconservative explanation of terrorism...

Written by Paul Frankenstein
15 July 2005

Black Looks: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Black Looks, in the first of a series spotlighting important African women, profiles Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman who is also a Dutch MP and the writer of the...

Written by Paul Frankenstein
14 July 2005

Bob sweettalking farmers

The Zimbabwean Pundit is reporting that the Zimbabwean government is holding quiet talks with white farmers to return the land that the government seized several years ago. This, of course,...

Written by Paul Frankenstein
13 July 2005

Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf says he was expecting to read in detail about the historical events that happen in Sudan now but he did not find any posts about that.

Written by Ahmed Al-Omran
12 July 2005

This is Zimbabwe

This is Zimbabwe reports that the African Union's human rights emissary to Zimbabwe has left the country under police escort. One wonders what the official AU response will be.

Written by Paul Frankenstein
12 July 2005

Commentary

The South African Blog Commentary notes that the ANC is having some cash-flow issues, and does not look approvingly upon the ANC's proposed solution.

Written by Paul Frankenstein
12 July 2005

Sub-Saharan Africa Daily Blog Roundup

Timbuktu Chronicles passes on some interesting information about a virtual marketplace, enabled by the use of cellphones. Andrew Heavens of Meskel Square interviews two Addis Ababa university students about Live...

Written by Paul Frankenstein
5 July 2005

Global Voices meets the Mainstream Media

Global Voices bloggers are showing up everywhere in the mainstream media these days! American Public Media's syndicated radio show, “Future Tense”, focuses on our project today. You can listen to...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
5 July 2005

African Blog Roundup

Debates over the relevance of Live 8 have kept the African blogosphere jumping this weekend. Andrew Heavens of Meskel Square is amazed that “you can't open a British newspaper (or...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
4 July 2005
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Zita Zage is the Anglophone Africa Editor. Email her story ideas or volunteer to write.

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Jean Sovon is the Francophone Africa. Editor. Email him story ideas or volunteer to write.


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