Africa (older)

Eric Osiakwan visited the Berkman Center yesterday from Ghana, by way of Stanford University. He’s an old friend from the Ghana ISP scene, one of… Read More »Eric Osiakwan at Berkman

A week back, at the Madrid Democracy summit, I had a dinner conversation with friends that centered on the complications of professional journalists maintaining blogs.… Read More »Journalism, transparency and triangulation

And suddenly, the world looks a few shades darker. The World Bank is an easy target for activist critiques, but the Bank under Wolfensohn has… Read More »Bush names Wolfowitz to head World Bank

Bloggers around the world, especially in the Middle East, are mourning the death of Zouhair Yahyaoui, a Tunisian journalist and founder of Tunezine, an activist,… Read More »Remembering a cyber-dissident

The BBC has an excellent story today on the “Wonder Welders” of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The welders are a group of wheelchair-bound men, crippled… Read More »African Welding, African Weblogs

When President Mutharika moved out of his absurd, 300-room palace in Lilongwe because he – reportedly – was troubled by ghostly rodents crawling over his… Read More »Ghostly rodents and journalistic detentions