"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
At the Copenhagen summit on climate change biofuel is one of the most controversial subject, provoking numerous arguments about the consequences of using huge pieces of arable land to make it grow.
Over the past two years, various foreign countries – China, India, South Korea, Britain and the Arab Gulf states leading the pack – have picked up huge slices of African farmland by lease or purchase to produce food or biofuels for their own use.
Ethiopia wants to emulate Brazil by developing biofuels to cut its dependence on oil imports that cost the Horn of Africa nation more than a billion dollars a year, a government official said. But the issue of the biofuels in Ethiopia and not only, is controversial (in the photo a plantation of jatropha).
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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