Stories from 17 April 2006
DRC: Building the Demosphere
Blogger Tony Katombe from Le Blog du Congolais invites (FR) readers to sign up for the Demosphere, ” a network of sites, blogs and emails of activists and militants involved...
DRC: More UDPS Revelations
UDPS Spokesman Valentin Mubake was on Congolese TV again. Blogger Tony Katombe explains (FR) that Mubake unveiled attempts by electoral commission head Rev. Malu-Malu to act as a demographer by...
Iran: World Have Your Say
A couple of Iranian bloggers participated in BBC's “World Have Your Say“” discussion about nuclear crisis. Several Iranian joined this discussion and shared their opinion by sending email or by...
Comoros: History & politics
Passion of the Present has a commentary and some historical background on the Island of the Comoros with a roundup selection on the elections from the mainstream media.
Lesotho: technology and democracy
Sotho writes on democracy and technology and asks “Imagine Steve Biko blogging”?. Would we have been indifferent? Judging by the number of people who frequent popular blogs, I doubt it....
Nigeria: Extended family system
Naijablog believes that the West can learn much from the African/Nigerian “extended” family system …”nstead of ego-trauma as in the West, the fluidity of parenting opportunities in the extended family...
Ethiopia: US State Dept policy
Redeem Ethiopia wonders what the US state dept is up to referring to a recent speech by the US Charge d’ Affairs in which she expressed a wish for Meles’...
Sustainable architecture
African Architecture and Design writes on the “13 Principles of Sustainable Architecture” which fall under three categories “Small is beautiful”. “Heat with the sun. “Keep your cool”.. he writes “My...
Voices from Zimbabwe and the Great Lakes
Zimbabwe: This is Zimbabwe is involved in a battle of semantics with Eddie cross after the former published this post which questioned some of the numbers put forth by the...
Zimbabwe: New blog
Enough is Enough is a new group blog from Zimbabwe. Writers include Zimpundit and the site is designed to enable you ” to find a wealth of information in different...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Interview
Ayaan Hirsi Ali blog posts an interview with Hirsi Ali on a report advising the Dutch government to take a softer line on Islam.
Ethiopia: concert
African music blog, Benn loxo du taccu reports on an Ethiopian concert he attended last week. Great music and video clips of an amazing sax solo by Getatchew Mekuria –...
