"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
In what some see as innovative advertising and others as a publicity stunt, a South African burger chain has a bright idea for a campaign to woo blind customers: serving them burgers with words in Braille spelled out on their buns with sesame seeds.
A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region.
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) response to our critique of their report on copper mining in Zambia by subsidiaries of state-owned China Non-Ferrous Metal Mining Corp.
Africa requires at least $12 billion for its HIV/Aids response in the next three years to stem the scourge, although this financial injection is threatened as donors hold back due to mismanagement of funds.
The need for a properly functioning Agricultural Market Information and the objectives were clear and important. The issue that did not come out right is why the G20 including Spain and seven other non G20 countries decided to establish a membership AMIS in total disregard to the existing initiatives that have not functioned well due to challenges that can be resolved, written the president of the Eastern African Farmers Organization (EAAFU), Philip Kiriro.
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.
