"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
When I spoke on a World Bank panel earlier this year about the New Africa as we call it here, I was asked a question about what should development organizations do to remain relevant in a world where trade will trump aid very soon?
BRUSSELS – “I have never heard of any recent persecutions of catholic priests in Zimbabwe”. This is what Charles A. Ray, the U.S. Ambassador in Harare said to Afronline.org when interviewed about persecutions of catholic priests revealed by the catholic British magazine The Tablet.
It is late, the sun already set. The cold wind sweeps across the Cape Flats bringing with it an ocean chill. She walks alone through the bushy field on her way home. Something moves in the dark.
Increasing the production of energy from biomass (bioenergy) needn’t come at the expense of growing food crops — done right, it can enhance food security and prosperity in Africa, says Lee R. Lynd and Jeremy Woods.
Professor Mike Muller from the Global Water Partnership told experts in water, environment, climate change and civil society organisations from Southern Africa that getting water to people is the biggest obstacle among Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.
Eastern Africa is experiencing what has been described as the “most severe food crisis in the world today”, with at least 10 million people affected in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.
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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Eastern Africa is experiencing what has been described as the “most severe food crisis in the world today”, with at least 10 million people affected in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.