Egypt: More on the Free Alaa & no military trials campaign
The Free Alaa campaign which works side by side with the No Military Trials for Civilians campaign [Alaa has refused to recognise the military court and continues to insist on being questioned and or tried by a civilian court] are…
Egypt: Alaa Abdel Fattah blogs from detention
Last Sunday 30th October, one of Egypt’s most prominent activists and blogger, Alaa Abdel Fattah was detained by the Egyptian military for 15 day. Alaa refused to recognise the military court taking the brave stand of insisting on a civilian…
Of Tabloid Literature and a New Word Order
Sokari Ekine aptly writes about ‘tabloid bloggers’ in response the ABSU rape case; her post is the finest piece I read on the issue. I had intended to respond to the fray, but I figured I wouldn’t do a better…
The Daily Chalkboard – Monrovia News
When we talk about Internet and mobile communications, we should always keep in mind that in many parts of the world these technologies just don’t compute. The Daily Talk via Chalkboard blogger, Alfred Sirleaf provides daily news to Monrovians. In…
Media reform-“Trickle up journalism”
Highlights from the “National Conference on Media Reform” – Words for thought: We need to see “the view from the top” to understand the depth and extent of events but also we need the “view from the bottom” -those personal…
Cyber HyperReality – The Genesis of a Struggle.
It started with four students sitting at a diner in Greensboro, North Carolina in February 50 years ago. The four refused to move and by the end of the month, the protest was 70,000 plus strong and had spread…
New Blog Design
A big thanks to Oluniyi David Ajao for fixing my blog. After numerous attempts of trying to sort things out, changing themes and head banging, Oluniyi came to the rescue and the result is a happy blogger!
1,987 posts later……………….
Ups and downs, here there and everywhere. Cant think of much else to say… “……….we are surrounded by messages, products of political power, of economic power, of the entertainment industry and the revolution industry, and to say that, we must…
Some G20Voice bloggers
There are 50 bloggers here with the G20Voice group – most seem to be with NGOs or non-profits but a few are independent bloggers. I spoke to two – a Saudi blogger Ahmed al-Omran. Ahmed blogs at Saudi-jeans on politics…
Splash Award
I got SPLASHED by Diary of an Anxious Black Woman (that should have been my name – Black and forever anxious!) I’m just copying over the whole blurb………. The Splash award is given to alluring, amusing, bewitching, impressive, and inspiring…
Missing Ada Lovelace Day: W-TEC Nigeria, Ore Somolu
Ada Lovelace Day was organised to bring recognition to the many women who have contributed to technology. So who was Ada Lovelace? Apart from being the daughter of one of my favorite poets, Lord Byron, more importantly Ada wrote the…
InfoActivisming
Try to imagine 133 activists, campaigners and techies coming together in one place for 7 days. Imagine this event had been in the making for 6 years (six months preparation) and was organised by a small group of people based…
Accused for murdering lesbian soccer player go to trial
In April it will be one year since the murder of South African lesbian soccer player Eudy Simelane. Initially five men were arrested and four of them are due to stand trial at Delmas Circuit Court in Mpumalanga from 11…
Ushahidi mapping war on Gaza
Ushahidi was developed a year ago to map the violence last January following Kenyan elections. It has since been used in the DRC and now Al-Jazeera is using it to map and document the Israel’s attack war on Gaza.
“Hear us speak!”
I had the honor of joining radical women of color (many of who are your favorite bloggers, BrownFemiPower, Black Amazon, Little Light, Mamita Mala, Sudy, Nadia, and sooo many more) in putting together an amazing album that chronicles experiences around…
Why I blog about Africa
I was tagged by What an African Woman Thinks and asked why I blog about Africa. I was having a bad day so thought I would wait a few days to see if I could come up with some wonderfully…
FREE Jonathan Elendu NOW!
UPDATE: Another online publisher arrested (Source Point Blank News) “Mr. Emeka Asiwe of huhuonline.com was on tuesday picked up at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos by officials of the State Security Services, SSS. Asiwe who had arrived Nigeria from…
Not just a pair of old shoes
Phew, just when I thought I was talking to a pair of my Dad’s old brogues I am relieved to find that some people are actually reading this space. A great weight has been lifted off my shoulders, thank you…
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