17 October 2005

Stories from 17 October 2005

Africa: white writers

Diary of a Mad Kenyan Woman, discusses the issue of the contribution of “white” writers in African literary history and the arbitrary changing of people´s social categories in order to...

17 October 2005

Emeka Okafor´s blog Africa Unchained reports on the investigate journalism of Elendu Reports by Jonathan Elendu and Sowore Omoyele

17 October 2005

Iraq: Baghdad's Ancient Battery

A Free Writer says that while excavating ruins of a 2000-year-old village near Baghdad, workers discovered mysterious small vase. German archaeologist ,Wilhelm Konig, examined the object and came to a...

17 October 2005

African Music for the Masses Blog, Benn Loxo Du Taccu remembers one of Africa´s greatest musicans Congolese master guitarist Franco, who 20 years after his death is still heard daily...

17 October 2005

Egypt: Alexandria on Sectarian Fire

The Big Pharaoh says that around 3000 Muslim protesters surrounded a church in Alexandria to protest a church play that they deemed as “offensive to Islam.” Police cordoned off the...

17 October 2005

Kiswahili blog, Mwandani reports that the legacy of former Tanzanian President, the late Julius Nyerere has gone astray in the corrupt environment of the ongoing election campaigns.

17 October 2005

Bahrain Film Festival 2005

From Mahmood's Blog: The Bahrain Cinema Club in Association with Al-Ayam 13th Cultural Festival cordially invite you to the opening of Bahrain Film Days at 9pm on October 18th at...

17 October 2005

Anti-terror TV During Ramadan

Sabbah says that terrorism is the dominating theme in two major soap operas series during Ramadan this year and aired through Arab television venues, like the Middle East Broadcasting Company...

17 October 2005

Ethiopian Paradox predicts the end of Prime Minister “Meles the Terrible” of Ethiopia as the country remains in the grip revolutionary fervor with one “Mahal Sefari” leading the movement.

17 October 2005

Algeria: AU Conference on Gender

Nouri bin Khalid agrees that women in Africa need to be more aggressive in their efforts to face up to the various challenges, but he do think that the men...

17 October 2005

LinuxChix Africa partners with Kasi Open Source Software (KOSS) and takes Open Source software into the urban townships of South Africa and then on to the rural areas and villages

17 October 2005

Bronwyn of Mzansi Afrika reports on the appalling lack of housing faced by South Africa´s urban poor and migrant population.

17 October 2005

Qatar: Garangao

Mohammed says that Garangao (aka Gergea'an), celebrated on the 14th day of Ramadan (which falls on the 17 October 2005), is special to the Gulf region and is believed to...

17 October 2005

From the Palestinian Blogsphere

Palestine Blogs stresses the similarities between the Apartheid Wall in South Africa and the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Palestine in the ethnic nature and colonial agenda. Mohammed Abed further adds...

17 October 2005