"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
On the dual carriageway linking the main airport to downtown Niamey, the capital of Niger, workers are busy digging trenches in the middle of the island separating the lanes, and laying tracks where rows of lampposts once stood.
With the recent staging of the mobile phone trade fair held in Togo’s capital Lome, the country is hoping to close the technological divide by showcasing mobile developments now available on the market.
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Togo police yesterday fired tear gas on opposition supporters who spoke out against a new law to restrict their right to protest. The controversial draft law, adopted by the government, establishes conditions for exercising freedom.
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The political culture of dynasties is very much alive in Africa even where there are no kingdoms. In Uganda the opposition has claimed that President Yoweri Museveni is grooming his eldest son Lieutenant Colonel Kaneirugaba Muhoozi, 36, to succeed him.
Five years ago, nobody would have imagined this scenario, but when “the Liberian Iron Lady” Sirleaf Johnson took power in 2005, a new trend of political outlook started to take place in Africa. Since then, a number of women of high calibre started to emerge from all corners of Africa, and in 2010 a real boom exploded.
LOMÉ – Tightened security and a general wariness of possible violence have greeted the announcement of President Fauré Gnassingbé’s re-election, pending constitutional court approval, with 61 percent of the two million votes cast on 4 March.
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.
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.
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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