Sokari Ekine · April, 2006

Latest posts by Sokari Ekine from April, 2006

Nigeria: technology and violence

  26 April 2006

Chippla writes on terrorism, technology and violence using Bin Laden, Nigerian militants and the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising and the ANC struggle against apartheid as examples of how “one mans terrorist is another man's freedome fighter”

Ethiopia: Blogging media

  26 April 2006

Ethiopian blogConcoction points to an op/ed in the Economist that claims that news media are “already feeling the heat” from the blogosphere as blogs are changing the media.

South Africa: TRC

  26 April 2006

Agathon Rwasa points to a report in which Archbishop Desmond Tutu admits that the Truth and Reconciliaiton Commission failed “to meet the needs of apartheid victims”…”Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is dismayed at the “ungenerous reparations” to victims of apartheid who appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and has...

Sudan: genocide

  26 April 2006

Weichegud!ET Politics comments on Darfur, Rwanda and the failure of the West and Africa to act – in the case of Darfur we have been warned over and over yet still nothing happens. We as Africans also need to take responsibility…”Excuse me. 400,000 people have died. When do we start...

South Africa: Writing in indigenous language

  26 April 2006

Singing SouthAfricaness discusses African writers writing in their indigenous languages…”The idea that African writers should write in native African languages, therefore, is linked to the idea of the tyrany of the trace, as discussed above. Ngugi suggests that African writers should be enriching their own languages through producing work in...

South Africa: Carmen in Xhosa

  26 April 2006

African Shirts comments on another film from South Africa…U-Carmen eKhayelitsha which is a ” Xhosa language film based on Bizet's opera Carmen, and it won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival last year.

Nigeria: Internet exchange points

  25 April 2006

Oro reports that Nigerian internet traffic will soon have it's own exchange points which should speed up the time it takes for your email to reach its destination and vice versa. “The Board of Nigerian Communications Commission has approved a proposal to fund the setting up of Internet eXchange Points...

Zimbabwe: Unpatriotic

  25 April 2006

Moral Fibre reports that Zimbabwean Vice President has complained that young Zimbabweans are not generally patriotic. Hardly surprising given the state of the country….”Circumstances in Zimbabwe are not conducive to a patriotic populace, I'm afraid. What with inflation at 913.6%, unemployment at 70% and the omnipresent threat of wide-scale famine,...

Africa: Chinese visit

  25 April 2006

akwaabaghana reports that the Chinese leader, President Hu Jintao begins a week long tour of Africa - no doubt to check on how his country's investments are going and to encourage African leaders to welcome even more Chinese money.

Kenya: We are not all running

  25 April 2006

Kenyan blogger Gukira writes that not all Kenyans are runners and wonders what Kenyans are running from? “As the Kenyan sport, running is less a ritual of patriotism than a critique of the nation.”

Africa: Oil

  25 April 2006

My Hearts in Accra writes on oil and its relationship with various African countries. Certain African countries have benefited from the high demand and the expensive supply side – countries we dont generally hear about in relation to oil such as Chad Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania and the Congo Republic

Zambia: Freedom to be heard

  24 April 2006

Zambian blog, Real Life of a Journalist posts on a local project “ Freedom to be heard Campaign through Radio” which would help to provide ….”a medium for people especially women and children to express them selves to government leaders, community heads, civil society heads and the rest of the...

Britain: Immigration realities

  24 April 2006

Aba Boy comments on the anti immigration discourse currently taking place in Britain. He suggests that 1,2,3, 4th generation immigrants down tools for a day “I think this simple act will give everyone a pretty good idea of the contributions or burdens that immigrants place on this society”

Sudan: China Blood and Oil

  24 April 2006

Coalition for Darfur has a op/ed on Chinese investment in oil in the Sudan and why America should complain… China is now underwriting its second genocide in three decades. The first was in Pol Pot's Cambodia, and the second is in Darfur, Sudan. Chinese oil purchases have financed Sudan's pillage...

Zimbabwe: Nothing in Bulawayo

  24 April 2006

This is Zimbabwe comments on the lack of livestock and human activity during his travels to the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo…”The reasons seemed obvious … the consequencs of the misrule of the Mugabe regime … unemployment, emigration, little or no seed and fertiliser and poor health care.”

Nigeria: Debt cancellation

  24 April 2006

Grandiose Parlor comments on the recent Nigerian debt cancellation. He wonders how Nigerians have benefitted from the debt and where the loans were spent. …”What disturbs me the most is that a greater slice of this money ended in the pockets of a handful of retired generals and former top-level...

South Africa: Attack on Helen Zille

  24 April 2006

Fodder reports on an attack on South African politician, Helen Zille who had “chairs thrown at her and a knife pulled on her” .. He is critical of the ANC response which says the attack must be put in context!..

DRC: convictions for rape

  24 April 2006

Adventures of an Armchair Traveller reports on the conviction of “seven former Mouvement Pour la liberation du Congo (MLC) (or Armed Forces of the DR Congo (FARDC)) soldiers of the rape of 119 women and girls and other crimes against humanity”

Kenya: Blog awards

  24 April 2006

Kenyan Unlimited Kaybee Awards 2006 are now out. A list of winners and nominees can be found on their website. Congratulations to all this years winners.

Lesotho: Racism

  24 April 2006

Sotho comments on a recent post by Idland on racism against the Chinese population in Lesotho...We have so far only considered the moral and common-sense aspect of the issue. There’s an economic angle. Carrying out hate crimes (if that’s what they are) against foreigners will only: * invite potential investors...