This week a number of us are at WSF in Nairobi. To keep you up to date with events, analyses and commentaries, we will be sending out Pambazuka News on several occasions, mostly with single articles. We hope that readers will find this service useful.

We have also set up a blog site in collaboration with Institute PANOS West Africa to provide regular features. You will find these published at

Bookmark this site. We plan to bring you recorded interviews that you can listen to online or download, or you can subscribe to them as podcasts. There will also be video footage, documents, photos and other interesting items.

To start this week's report, we bring you the popular column 'Pan African Postcard' by our regular columnist, Tajudeen Abdul Raheem.

Best wishes from Nairobi

Firoze Manji
Editor