"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Six years ago, the UN General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In addition to honoring the victims of the Nazi era, the UN member state are supposed to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.
BULAWAYO – From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds – the Chinese finger is now in virtually every Zimbabwean pie.
The next Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) planned for 29-30 January 2012 in Addis Ababa promises to be unique in many ways. Besides the inauguration of the Chinese-funded new building, aimed at hosting the AU’s Headquarters, most of the attention will be focused on the election of new AU commissioners.
A new study (How Africa Tweets) launched in Nairobi yesterday by Portland Communications and Britain-based Tweetminster, says that South Africans and Kenyans are Africa’s most active Twitter users and that young people Tweeting from mobile devices are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa.
A cooperative is defined as “an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise,” according to the International Co-operative Alliance, they are “based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity.”
CAPE TOWN – When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
