"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Lagos — Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile telecoms operator, and the Zain Group of Kuwait have signed a “definite agreement” for the sale of 100 per cent of Zain’s African assets for an Enterprise Value of $10.7 billion.
South Sudan is a tinderbox ready to explode. This is the thought that comes to mind while I’m on my way back to Nairobi after a trip in the region. I visited the cities of Rumbek, Akott, Malakal, Juba and some of their neighbouring villages to produce reportages and documentaries for the Italian state television RAI.
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), one of Africa’s most brutal rebel groups, now have attacked civilians in a fourth country, the Central African Republic. The looting and massacring rebels are becoming a regional threat to security and stability.
CAPE TOWN – When Mbuyiselo Botha decided to take the African National Congress League President, Julius Malema, to court for hate speech against women, he was confident from the start that the case had merit. But he also knew it was a toughest test yet in his 15 years of gender activism.
CAIRO – Egypt’s ruling party is taking measures to restrict the work of non-governmental organisations ahead of crucial parliamentary elections.
After fifty years of activity, the Kenyan Nation Media Group is celebrating with a documentary that traces the group’s journey since it hit the market in 1960.
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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.
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.
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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