19 October 2005

Stories from 19 October 2005

Southern Africa social forum

The 3rd and final day of the Southern African Social Forum, held in Harare, dealt with the crisis in Zimbabwe. “Briggs Bomba, a representative of the parallel Uhuru Youth Forum...

19 October 2005

Representative Heuristic in race

Kenyan Diasporan blogger, Curious, discusses “the representative heuristic”. For example, the representative heuristic (Wikipedia) would be like this: “after a report in the media that, for example, black people are...

19 October 2005

Loss of life in Lesotho

Lesotho blogger Sotho puts the human disaster of Katrina, where it is estimated that 700 people died, in the context of a “3rd world” country like Lesotho where loss of...

19 October 2005

Kenyan Photo Essay

Kenyan blogger Kipepeo points us to some great photos of Kenya courtesy of Christoph-Grandt.com

19 October 2005

Aid for Darfur

Aid worker “Sleepless in Sudan” responds to those who have accused her of “”blogging to much on “the problems of Darfur and the mistakes people are making – and not...

19 October 2005

Mob rule in Nigeria

Nigerian blogger “Jangbalajugbu-Homeland Stories” has a horrific story showing the brutality of mob rule. An 11 year old boy Samuel is burnt to death after he is suspected of attempting...

19 October 2005

Radio Sud FM

Black Star Journal reports on the shutting down of Senegal's most popular radio station, Sud FM by the Senegalese government.

19 October 2005

China: Guardian Explains, Others Respond

asiapundit rounds up the skeptical reactions to the Guardian‘s explanation that reporter Benjamin Joffe-Walt's exaggerated description of Lu Banglie's injuries at Taishi was caused by temporary insanity. Bingfeng Teahouse helpfully...

19 October 2005

Japan: Yasukuni Visit

Yaw and Mog passed by the Yasukuni Shrine during PM Junichiro Koizumi's visit on the anniversary of the interment of fourteen war criminals there and asks what Japan gains by...

19 October 2005

Vietnam: Indians in Hanoi

No Star Where‘s search for traces of the Indian community in Vietnam leads to a discovery that poet Rabindranath Tagore had once visited Saigon.

19 October 2005

Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere

According to preliminary results the Iraqi Constitution Referendum has passed with a “yes” vote. And while the world waits for the official results, Iraqi Kurds and Kurds in general have...

19 October 2005

Chile's Presidential Blog Forum

此篇文章有繁體中文的翻譯” While all of South America has been experiencing an exponential growth of weblogs, podcasts, and other online methods of civic participation, no country has done more to institutionalize the...

19 October 2005