"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Addis Ababa – Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
“He had nothing to say.” That’s how French philosopher Roland Barthes described his grandfather Louis-Gustave Binger, the archetypal French colonialist: “Il ne tenait aucun discours”.
“HEAVY Gunfire reported at @WestgateMallKe in Weslands #RedCross Ambulance @EMS_Kenya at scene ^PO“. This was the first tweet written by Kenya’s Red Cross a few minutes after the first explosions at the Westgate Mall on September 21st. These have been days in which Kenya is dealing with an emergency even on the social media level.
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Economic development or autocratic regression? After two years in government, Zambia’s Patriotic Front (PF) has inspired a double narrative. One side of the story features uncapped leadership ambitions, violent street politics, broken promises and a repressed opposition.
“The speed with which the Protocol came into force on 25 November 2005 sets a new record for the ratification of pan African rights standards for the continent.
This report combines qualitative and statistical data from three research projects.
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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