Sokari Ekine · June, 2006

Latest posts by Sokari Ekine from June, 2006

Ghana: Celebrations

  26 June 2006

The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana has a video celebration of Ghana's win over the US “Enjoy” as he says.

South Africa: Revisiting democracy

  26 June 2006

Floyds Perspectives writes a piece on Democracy in South Africa....”Juxtaposed to other democracies, say in Europe, South Africa’s is not organically participatory and/or deserving, as per a different conceptualisation, to be “new tyranny”. In 2005, the French peoples successfully rejected the adoption of the European Union Constitution, despite the political...

Nigeria: Youth Forum

  26 June 2006

Nigerian Technology blogger, Oro comments on the Nigerian Youth Council which he hopes to rescue “from its destructive path”….I began the week with an opportunity-turned-sour involving a Presidential Youth Forum that was eventually turned into a circus of political psychopancy — and a show of shame of what unbriddled tongues...

Nigeria: Caste system

  26 June 2006

Chippla's Weblog writes on the “caste system” in Nigeria which operates amongst various ethnic peoples in Nigeria such as the Fulani and Igbo.

Ethiopia: Make tryanny history

  26 June 2006

Weichegud!ET Politics publishes an open letter to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on the eve of his visit to Ethiopia. The message “To make poverty history you need to make tyranny history“

Africa: Using Mobile phone technology

  26 June 2006

The African Uptimist reports on a the use of mobile phones with cameras that is being used to “capture microfinance data in developing countries. ..…”In Africa, the shortage or inadequacy of such data is a major reason why financial institutions are unable or reluctant to extend loans, savings, insurance and...

Cape Verde: NATO war games

  26 June 2006

The Concoction reports on NATO war games in Cape Verde....”The irony of it all is that the 7,000 NATO allied troops were playing war by “pounding pretend terrorist bases, grappling with rioters and separating factions in a mock war over oil…” Because Africa doesn’t have any of these problems, the...

Botswana: HIV Implementers meeting

  23 June 2006

Blogswana reports on the 3rd Annual HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting….”series of studies presented at the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief's annual meeting (this past week) suggested that men shouldn't be written off in fighting the disease”

Botswana: Nata village launched

  23 June 2006

NataVillage blog reports that Nata Village officially launched.….”Everyone in attendance was proud that Nata is the 1st village in Botswana with it’s own website! At the conclusion of the program, Mr. Tiro provided lunch for the reporters who travelled 120 miles from Francistown to cover our event.”

Nigeria: Finance minister redeployed

  23 June 2006

Exodus comments on the firing of Nigeria's finance minister Mrs Okonjo-Iweala…..”I knew it! I knew the administration had tampered with the foreign reserves (and I suspect to the ignorance of Ngozi). The people in the Senate must know what they are talking about. OBJ don chop money; probably used it...

Ghana: American Dreams shattered

  23 June 2006

Koranteng's Toli has a slightly different take on celebrating Ghana's win over the USA – the African blogosphere is on a high right now – it's complicated – the African Nation and the American Dream – ideintity politics – READ IT.

Nigeria: UK travel advisory

  22 June 2006

Just Thots by a Naijaman reports that Nigerian has issued it's first warning to Nigerians travelling to the UK ….”The Nigerian government says citizens must beware of “miscreants” who employ a “great variety of tricks” to dispossess people of their property.”

Africa: Inequality of Business

  22 June 2006

Africa Unchained points to an article on the Inequality of Business….“The fact is that gross inequality is generally bad news for both the wealthy and the poor and everyone in between. The question though is whether you can a perfectly equal society.”