"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Whatever Jay-Z and Beyonce were expecting when they went to Nigeria in 2006, they can’t have seen this one coming. If the document New York-based muckrakers Sahara Reporters have published is authentic, then they have just scooped one of the news stories of the decade. No doubt about it.
The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, lovingly known as Oxfam, has been saving Africans from themselves since soon after the British Empire upped and left the continent to its own devices. Now it has a problem. With Africa getting richer, who will make donations to its starving poor? The solution: a new publicity campaign.
Hard as it is to imagine, the government ought to be paying closer attention to Kibera and similar slums in urban centres.
Wim De Schamphelaere’s ‘Village Portraits’, often made out of more than 700 different shots, are printed on meters wide photographs and displayed at galleries in Europe.
The statistics upon which most poverty elimination strategies are based are extremely misleading and often steer experts toward the wrong solutions. Now here is what sounds like a New York Times headline to celebrate: ‘Extreme Poverty in Developing World Is Down Despite the Recession, Report Says.’
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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