Sokari Ekine

My round-ups have with a few exceptions covered blogs written by Africans at home or in the diaspora. There is, however, a third group of bloggers, some of whom have been writing for four or five years, who are non-Africans writing about African issues.

What happens when a state (Somalia) becomes a rudderless ship? But it’s not just Somalia that is without direction.

April 6 marked the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when 800,000 people were murdered over a period of three months.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/425/mar25_01_naijabloggers.gif… are now so many blog awards it is sometimes difficult to keep up with the continuous series

Rebekah Heacock’s report, ‘Mobile Activism in African Elections: A Comparative Study’, is part of DigiActive’s Research Series.

[1] The testimonies used in this paper were gathered by members of the Niger Delta Women for Justice (NDWJ), the Ijaw Council for Human Rights (ICHR), and myself during fieldwork undertaken between 2000 and 2003.

NaijaReports comments on Nigeria’s “new export market”.

Abahlali baseMjondolo report on the recent judgement on the 2007 Kwa ZuluNatal Slums Act in Durban. The shackdwellers had applied to the court to declare the Act unconstitutional.

Al Jazeera is now using the site developed by Kenyan bloggers after the 2008 outbreak of election violence.

In a fitting end to 2008, Ivorian blogger Théophile Kouamouo created a Meme on “Why I blog about Africa”. He asks