It’s been an open question for a while: when will repressive African leaders start taking the Internet seriously enough that they’ll start locking up cyber-dissidents?… Read More »Ethiopia notices cyber-dissidents. (Indefinite detention without charges is the sincerest form of flattery.)
It’s cool that I can surf the Internet from my couch because I’ve got a Wifi access point in my house. But it’s far more… Read More »Wireless for the Developing World
Two quick Ethiopia updates – my open letter to Zenawi has been linked to by several other bloggers and reposted in The Witness, an online… Read More »Ethiopia Updates
Dear Prime Minister Zenawi – I realise this letter is arriving at a particularly busy time for your administration. Simply keeping track of the more… Read More »A modest proposal for Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Two must-read posts: Sokari Ekine offers a roundup of posts around the African blogosphere reflecting on the persistence of racism and the legacy of Martin… Read More »Two posts worth your time
Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) was West Africa’s economic success story in the early 1990s. When I lived in Ghana in 1993-4, Ivory Coast was where… Read More »Cote d’Ivoire lurches towards civil war