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Features

PAMBAZUKA NEWS– NEW NAME FOR KABISSA-FAHAMU-SANGONET NEWSLETTER

2001-12-13, Issue 46

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/4830

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We are pleased to announce a new name for the newsletter jointly produced by Kabissa, Fahamu and SANGONeT. Like you, we have found the existing name a mouthful – it says little about what we stand for. After much searching, we have decided to call the newsletter PAMBAZUKA NEWS. Pambazuka is the Kiswahili word for dawn, or getting light. For us, the name represents the new dawn that we aspire to, a region based on social justice and respect for human dignity.

This newsletter began as a joint venture of Kabissa and Fahamu, and has grown to involve SANGONeT. We are already in the process of developing collaborations with other organisations with similar aims, and we hope that in the coming period the alliance around Pambazuka News will grow. As more organisations cooperate in the production of this newsletter, it is important that the name reflects our goals.

This newsletter has grown extraordinarily fast. In less than a year the number of subscribers has grown from 700 to more than 8,000. Its readership is, we know, much larger. Many of you print out and share the newsletter with your colleagues. The content of the newsletter is reproduced on a number of websites. It has become an important forum for discussion and debate of major social issues of concern in Africa. Many organisations have adopted the newsletter as a vehicle for their own work and for sharing their experiences and views. Above all, this newsletter has helped those with difficulty in accessing the worldwide web to keep abreast with what is available. It is estimated that there are currently more than 3 million internet users in Africa. We believe we are only reaching a tiny proportion of those internet users who share the goals and values of Pambazuka. How do we reach more such people? What can you do to help?

As well as changing the name, we propose to introduce a number of improvements to the newsletter in the new year. The new name heralds, therefore, also a new dawn – Pambazuka – for the newsletter itself. With your help, we hope that Pambazuka News will continue to grow to serve better the needs of those seeking social justice in Africa.

As a result of the name change, there will be a number of address changes:
* You can read the newsletter online at http://www.pambazuka.org
* The editors can be reached at editor@pambazuka.org
* You can unsubscribe by writing to unsubscribe@pambazuka.org
Please change your addressbook and bookmarks accordingly. Pambazuka will pause publication on 20 December and resume on 10 January.

Tobias Eigen (Kabissa), Firoze Manji (Fahamu), Alan Finlay (SANGONeT)

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