Sokari Ekine · October, 2005

Latest posts by Sokari Ekine from October, 2005

War crimes in somaliand

  25 October 2005

Inside Somaliland reports on the arrest in Sweden of a member of Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament on suspicion that he was involved in war crimes in the Horn of Africa.

Nigeria – questions

  25 October 2005

Nigerian blogger, Musings of a NaijaMan, asks some serious questions about Nigeria's “Black Weekend” in which 117 died in a plane crash and the 1st lady died on the operating table following liposuction surgery.

1000 Naira

  25 October 2005

Chippla's Weblog introduces us to the Nigerian currency, the Naira, and the new N1000 bill which unlike previous notes does not feature the face a famous or “infamous” Nigerian as the case may be.

Roller coasting in Zimbabwe

  25 October 2005

Zimbabwean Pundit has a guest writer, Eddie Cross who has written an article on the “roller coaster” politics in Zimbabwe and it's affect on the lives of ordinary citizens.

Rapping for Palestine

  25 October 2005

Nigerian blogger Soul on Ice attended a conference over the weekend in London organised by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. The concert featured civil rights rap group “The Last Poets” and British Caribbean activist poet, Benjamin Zephaniah.

  24 October 2005

Nigerian blogs, Kisses & Roses, Boggy Woggy and Nigerian Times, report on the plane accident in Nigeria at the weekend as well as the untimely death of Mrs Stella Obasanjo, wife of the President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Zimbabwean Disease

  24 October 2005

Zimbabwean author, Chengerai Hove, writes in this weeks Pambazuka News of a “Zimbabwean disease” which dictates that once an institution is formed it becomes a national cause to tear it apart.

Superstitions

  24 October 2005

Kenyan blogger Mshairi discusses the issue of superstition particularly the 7 years bad luck said to happen should you break a mirror.

Nigeria Poet

  24 October 2005

Molara Wood, invites us to read her review of Nigerian poet, Tade Ipadeola who has a new book “Poetic Rain”.

PLO should learn from ANC

  24 October 2005

South African blog, “the fish bowl” points to an article in todays Houston Chronicle, which discusses the need for the PLO to learn from the South African example, and the differences between the PLO and the ANC in both policy and ideology.

Race on the streets of London

  21 October 2005

Nigerian blogger in UK, Confessions of the Mind has a racist experience on the streets of London – not your usual in your face racial abuse, racial innuendos, being reminded you that you are different because of the colour of your skin but an outright vile shocking one…

Afrikaner Homeland

  21 October 2005

South African blogger Mzansi Afrika points out that “those insane and racists Afrikaners in Orania have not yet given up on their dream of creating an independent, self-sufficient “homeland” within the borders of South Africa”.

Corruption in Nigeria

  21 October 2005

Once again Nigeria is in the top 5 of most corrupt countries. Chippla's Blog asks What manner of a country” is Nigeria!. A country where online spamming is taken to a new level and where politics is a elevated to a religion!