"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
PRETORIA – Zimbabwe’s still-limping economy can provide few essential services, so children living along the border cross into South Africa to attend school during the day or even to see a doctor, often at great risk to their personal safety.
In Bukavu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the young are mad about Burundese music, which is receiving a remarkable amount of success in discos and music shops. This incredible success is rooted in the common language of the Burundese and Congolese people and in the human relationships between the two countries.
Foreign investors looking for a way into Angolan markets need to follow two fundamental rules, writes Rafael Marques de Morais – partner with powerful figures from the regime, and ignore the relevant legislation. Marques de Morais looks at the route taken by leading Portuguese beverage manufacturer, Unicer.
Oil Extraction in a country well know as “the pearl of Africa”- as Uganda is called – for her environmental gifts raises serious economic and environmental concerns about how oil should be extracted at Lake Albert.
Nairobi — Kenya inched closer to a referendum on a new constitution when the Committee of Experts presented the final version to the Parliamentary Select Committee. The experts reversed some of the decisions arrived at by the MPs team that reviewed the draft law in Naivasha last month.
Women are Heroes, which will be in theatres in 2010, is the first movie shot by JR - an alternative photographer who uses all the walls of the world to spread his work.
In 2008 he left Paris looking for stories linked to women. The film shows the adventures of the project Women Are Heroes, released after three years of travelling around Africa. From the artistic project made with the citizens of a little village in Liberia to the creation of a collage into a slum, to the creative laboratory made in a slum in Kenya, Women Are Heroes is a tribute to women.
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.
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