10 March 2007

Stories from 10 March 2007

Nigeria: African Girl single released

  10 March 2007

Mimi magazine blogs announces the release of a new single, African Girl, by a Nigerian young musician, Nayo: “Nayo, MIMI's March 2007 covergirl, has released her debut single, African Girl today. To hear the clip and find out how you can purchase it, visit www.myspace.com/nayo. Nayo has also recorded a...

Africa: new African women magazine

  10 March 2007

My Life blogs about a new African Women's magazine, “Kitu Kizuri is a new quarterly African Women's magazine, which is currently in print, and will be available in April for the public. I'm pretty sure there are lots of other African magazines out there…maybe not, but Kitu Kizuri is very...

Jordan: Single Women Welcome Again

Jordanian blogger Natasha (Twal) Tynes is excited that some of her single friends can visit Jordan, now that her country has retracted “a controversial new regulation that was intended to limit the entry of single eastern European and North African women into the country.”

Jordan: You Don't Miss What You Never Had

Jordanian blogger Hareega says people only miss what they are used to. In a post dotted with wisdom, he writes: “If you don't try something you'll never miss it. If you don't get sick you won't know how great it is to be healthy. As my best friend Aerosmith says...

South Africa: blog awards controversy

  10 March 2007

Wozafriday has some reservations about the South African blog awards process, “I don’t quite understand what the judging criteria will be. How will a panel judge, who may never have read a certain blog, be able to objectively determine whether that blog deserves an award over another blog which the...

South Africa: challenges of leadership

  10 March 2007

Someamongus writes about leadership challenges within the main political parties in South Africa, “The ANC, for all that it is a very opaque and clandestine organisation in practice, documents its theory very closely. It publishes discussion documents and position papers regularly, particularly in advance of its major congresses and lekgotlas....

Kenya: motorized bicycle

  10 March 2007

Afrigadget posts a photo of a motorized bicycle made in Kisumu, Kenya, “They hold about 2 liters of petrol and can get theoretically around 50 km a liter. They cost around 7,000 Kenyan shillings. To start the bicycle you start pedaling manually, then you flip a switch on the left...

South Asia: The UK army and racism

  10 March 2007

Pickled Politics on racism, the army and the government. “It is a disgusting stereotyping and an insult to any ethnic minorities who join the armed forces. If he wasn’t racist he’d be trying to stop using racially derogatory terms, not perpetuate them further by saying they are acceptable and used...

India: Communication and the Government

  10 March 2007

Don't trust the Indian Media on the growth of the cellular subscriber base, and the government. “You know, I sometimes wonder if some of our politicians actually follow a policy of ‘enforced poverty’ – keep people poor and uneducated so that they can hang on to power as long as...

Nepal: Madhesi Strike & Interim Government

  10 March 2007

The issue of Madheshi – the people living in the southern plains of Nepal – hasn’t ended. The Madheshi Peoples’ Right Forum, which led the biggest protest in southern Terai demanding the equal opportunity and inclusiveness, have resumed the strikes once again. Parmendra Bhagat of Democracy for Nepal believed the...

Sri Lanka: India, rape and television

  10 March 2007

The Black Lullaby on how soaps make some serious points sometimes, and how the seriousness of rape related issues are sometimes touched on in Ekta Kapoor's soaps. “An area Kapoor takes very seriously is rape because statistics show that a total number of 36 million women are raped in India...

Nepal: The Iron Regime

  10 March 2007

Madhesh Blog on the iron regime and its ways to suppress opinions. “Dozens of Madheshis have been injured from the attacks of armed police forces, in Duhabi, Nepalgunj and other areas of Madhesh; and now the curfew has been imposed and the government continues its old strategy of ruling the...

Bangladesh: The Islamic state and practicality

  10 March 2007

a Bengali in TO explains why an Islamic state is impractical. “Today, however, the clerics have dubious motives for issuing edicts – be it money, power, fame or cultural reasons. Thus, we cannot trust our ulemah to interpret Islam in a just manner, and one of the main pillars of...