"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
South Africa’s Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti in parliament today revealed new plans of a major overhaul of the country’s land restitution and redistribution policy to speed up land reform. The move would however require a change of the constitution.
In 1973, Kenya forced the Endorois people off their ancestral land in the heart of the Great Rift Valley to create a wildlife reserve, plunging a community of traditional cattle-herders into poverty and pushing them to the brink of cultural extinction. Nearly 40 years later, the Endorois have won a measure of justice.
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.
An important question facing humanity at present is how to ensure enough food to everyone. There is a distribution issue that is unresolved: the market distributes, and those without the resources to participate are excluded. This produces growing obesity, starvation in others and surplus production with food deficits in other places.
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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