Latest posts by Sokari Ekine from December, 2005
South Africa: Australia, racism – not cricket
South African reports that Australia's racist hooligans are still on the rampage this time hurling abuse at the SA cricket team….”The latest news coming out of Australia is that South Africa's cricketers were racially abused and called “kaffirs” and “kaffir boeties” during the first Test in Perth. This kind of...
Kenya: US, foreigners and privacy
Gukira writing from the US complains that foreigners are not getting the same protection as US citizens in Bush's latest move to invade people's privacy……..”Repeatedly, leaders have condemned this “invasion of privacy.”Daddy senator and Mommy representative must protect Baby citizen from the hostile government wolfs.Not a single word, at least...
Kenya: getting lost in Nairobi
Moving back home is busy getting lost in Nairobi….”.i am unsure how people who have never lived in this city, get around. honestly. there are no map-books. and even if there were, people tend to substitute whatever road names there are for hand gestures. for example james gichuru is that...
Ethiopia: Overhearing conversations
Aqumada links to a site called “Overheardinnewyork” where people post conversations they have overheard in the city. He gives some examples ….”Puerto Rico chick: He likes that—what do you call it? That the black people make…that “tooka tooka tooka”…? Nuyorican chick: Rap music.” – Sounds like fun – lets all...
Sierra Leone: UN withdraws
Black Star Journal reports on the withdrawal of UN forces from Sierra Leone…….. “Once the largest peacekeeping mission in the world, UNAMSIL has disarmed and demobilised over 72,000 combatants and collected and destroyed over 30,000 arms, explained head of mission, [Daudi Ngelautwa] Mwakawago.”
Africa: Blogosphere
Jewels in the Jungle has his own comments on the growth of the African blogosphere and uses a quote from Zimbabwean Pundit to describe it …”“The African blogosphere is a heterogeneous amalgam of blogs not only by Africans and people on the continent as much as it is comprised of...
Africa|: Granta, “A View from Africa”
My Heart is in Accra points to literary journal Granta whose lates issue is “The View from Africa“…Ory pointed me towards a piece by Binyavanga Wainaina, a Nairobi-based author who offered the satirical and very challenging “How to write about Africa”. (Pieces like this are great when, like me, you...
Congo: Gold
Congo Watch points to a report by the BBC called ” On the trail of DR Congo's ‘cursed’ gold”
Kenya: Scientific maps
Kikuyumoja’s realm shares her wonderful discovery of scientific maps of Kenya….and came across a HUGE collection of amazingly detailed maps for scientific use – scanned & published online by the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission: the “European Digital Archive on Soil Maps of the World (EuDASM) “....
Lesotho: cheap imports from China
Sotho reports on a piece in IOL about the deluge of cheap imports from China and how this is affecting local industries and jobs……..“From South Africa to Lesotho, to Zambia and Nigeria anger is mounting over what one union leader called ‘a tsunami of cheap Chinese goods’ that many say...
Kenya: Journalism
Kenyan Pundit continues here write up on “What is ailing Kenyan journalism” with a Part III…..Part I and Part II
Ethiopia: Book reviews
Redeem Ethiopia reviews two books on Ethiopia: Survival and Modernization, written by Messay Kebede and Hagai Erlich’s Ras Alula and The Scramble for Africa – a political biography of Ras Alula Aba Nega. They also recommend a number of other books on Ethiopia.
SA: fake US accents
Mzansi Afrika complains about the use of “fake American accents” by promo ads especially on music radio………But this whole adopting of the American accent thing, especially when you've never set foot in America – I just don't get it. What's wrong with our own ethnic African accents? Why do you...
Zimbabwe: Action Alert
Action Alert: This is Zimbabwe – Petition request for United Nations intervention in Zimbabwe. The Petition can be found here.
Africa: Blogging
Jewels in the Jungle reports on Andrew Heavens piece for the BBC Focus magazine “African bloggers find their voice”………The world's leading politicians, business leaders, and professional media companies are starting to listen up to the Blogosphere..
Africa: indigenous vegetables
Indigenous vegetables have been “re-discovered” – that is green leafy vegetables grown in the tropics. Timbuktu Chronicles reports that they are seen as “an ally in the fight against “hidden hunger”, the term used to describe deficiencies of micro-nutrients such as vitamin A and minerals like iron, which prevents anaemia….
Kenya: Coming home
Afromusings muses on her return home to Kenya and is impressed by the changes to the airport and other things………………” On our drive out of the airport, i saw the “Adopt a light” initiative. Most kenyans i have talked to really like it. What i found even more interesting is...
Sudan: refugees to be repatriated over 5 years
Passion of the Present reports that the UN is to facilitate the return of 60,000 refugees to the South of Sudan by May next year………..”The move started Saturday and it could take up to five years to repatriate all 560,000 southern Sudanese refugees in seven neighboring countries — Central African...
Africa: Pan African broadcaster needed
What an African Woman Wants is a Pan African broadcaster on the lines of Al Jazeera. She does not discount the BBC, CNN etc and the African journalists who work for them but Africa needs it's own…….”so as to tell stories about Africa from an African point of view to...
Uganda: Sweden withholds aid
Uganda-CAN reports that Sweden is withholding $5million in Aid from Uganda because of concerns over the transistion to multi-party democracy. It will instead give $3million in humanitarian aid to agencies working in the north of the country.
Ethiopia and Western Interests
Ethiopundit accuses the West of wanting to forget about the “fake” Ethiopian elections and return to “business as usual”……..”Ethiopia desperately wants the subject changed from its naked despotism to the interests the West has in regional security that the government itself plays to advantage. Eritrea is totally ignored by the...
