"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Africa’s political plates are shifting. In concert with economic gains realised over the course of the past decade in particular, and the concomitant rise in a more connected, and increasingly more empowered populace, political stability (or at least constructive change) is elevating.
Protesters from the DRC have accused President Zuma of complicity in what they allege is electoral fraud in the recent election in the restive country.
Uganda’s incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won a fresh bid to a new five-year term Sunday, taking more than two thirds of the vote in elections to the recently held presidential and parliamentary elections.
KAMPALA - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has come up with a new plan to send ratings for his National Resistance Movement party sky high. A Video By Vox Africa
At the start of one of Africa’s busiest political seasons more than 17 elections are due this year the deepening crisis in Côte d’Ivoire sends a brutal reminder of the limits of electoral politics.
President Laurent Gbagbo’s party has asked the top legal body in Cote d’Ivoire and the election commission to cancel still unpublished results from a poll it says rebels rigged for rival Alassane Ouattara. A video by Vox Africa
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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