"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
MOGADISHU – Amnesty International has urged the international community to call on the Somali authorities to bring to justice those responsible for attacks on journalists after the latest killing of a Mogadishu reporter.
JUBA/KAMPALA – Petty traders from Uganda, South Sudan’s largest trading partner, crowd into Konyo Konyo market in Juba selling used clothes, vegetables and household wares.
African leaders attending the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa were on Monday forced to postpone voting for a new Chairman of the continental grouping, after four rounds failed to determine a clear winner. The African leaders decided that the chairman of AU Commission, Jean Ping will keep the role of acting chairman until the next round of voting, scheduled to take place at the next AU summit in Malawi in July.
Is the Nigerian ‘revolution’ over? Was it just a brief moment in our history when everyone came together believing that this time things would be different?
As 2011 entered its twilight, African youth from different nations came together in South Africa to collaborate in music productions they hope will spur economic and social development.
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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