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January 2008

  • January 29, 2008 - 9:05pm

    Who is really in control in Kenya?

    Kofi Annan is in Kenya to lead talks between President Mwai Kibaki and ODM opposition leader Raila Odinga. Thus far the two men have failed to find any common ground upon which they can work to...
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    January 29, 2008 - 6:52pm

    The Greatest Silence

    Lisa F. Jackson's documentary The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo won Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize. Watch a clip from the movie and it is not hard to see why.
  • January 28, 2008 - 12:40pm

    Ushahidi gets a timeline feature

    A little while back, I wrote Ushahidi, a social media and Google maps mashup created by a team of Kenyan bloggers and tech types who are giving everyday people the means to document and follow the...
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    January 24, 2008 - 5:53pm

    The Independent online: not what it could be

    Andrew Mwenda has set out to create something new and compelling in Uganda's news media industry. I cannot say whether he has succeeded in print, but on the web, he has failed. The Independent...
  • January 23, 2008 - 4:31pm

    Ecommerce: When The Lights Go Out

    By Silumesii Maboshe There is a story that Zambians like to tell. Some time in the late 80s Zambia's Secretary General, Mr Grey Zulu, was paying the Queen of England a routine ceremonial visit....
  • January 21, 2008 - 2:59pm

    Blogging in Uganda (Part 8): Kampala.ver

    If you have never been to Kampala let me spare you the suspense; it is a poorly planned city and there is little to see in the way of architecture. The good news though is that there is a blogger who...
  • January 18, 2008 - 12:08pm

    Kenya's violence in Images

    These images are taken by Kenyan bloggers and photojournalists in the country over the past three weeks. The RSS feed is coming from Kenya Post-Election Pictures 2008, a Flickr group. [swf file...
  • January 15, 2008 - 2:10pm

    Kibaki 2.0: Making Moi look good

    When Daniel Arap Moi retired from the Kenyan presidency in 2002, it was clear that he had long overstayed his welcome. Whatever he had achieved for his country in almost a quarter of a century in...
  • January 11, 2008 - 11:40am

    Ushahidi: social media shall bear witness

    A group of Kenyan bloggers has put together a Google Maps mash-up called Ushahidi, which means witness in Swahili. Anyone can report the incident that he or she have seen, and it will appear on a...
  • January 9, 2008 - 3:01pm

    Be Invisible, in a trendy Hoodie

    However you may feel about NGOs and foreigners filming the plight of locals, you have to hand it to these guys. Invisible Children was released back in 2003, so five years on you might expect that...