"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
The Ugandan government’s controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Bill has been amended after civil society organisations campaigned against provisions in the bill that may restrict access to generic medicines, which form the bulk of medicines used in the East African country.
Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly resolution appealing for a global FGM/C ban, as it violates human rights, they say.
The threat by influential Christian leaders to mobilise a vote against Kenya’s draft constitution if it does not explicitly prevent any expansion of abortion rights appears to have succeeded.
People with albinism have been shunned, ridiculed, tormented, tortured and killed in cold blood all over Africa, simply on account of the skin colour. The biggest threat to persons with albinism is “misleading and negative belief systems about the condition”. And when “these negative beliefs combine with illiteracy and limited knowledge and facts about the situation, the net result can be calamitous.” The author of this article, Phitalis Were Masakhwe, is a sociologist.He has a physical disability.
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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