God Bless Ghana
Fifty years ago tomorrow, something remarkable happened: the Gold Coast, a colonial posession of Great Britain, became the independent soverign nation of Ghana under the… Read More »God Bless Ghana
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Democracy in Dakar
I’m guilty of the same attention crimes I’ve accused the mainstream media of: I’ve been writing about tragedies and crises on the African continent at… Read More »Democracy in Dakar
Free Kareem, and everyone else illegally imprisoned in Egypt
A court in Egypt sentenced blogger Kareem Sulaiman to four years in prison for “inciting hatred of Islam” and insulting President Hosni Mubarak. Kareem isn’t… Read More »Free Kareem, and everyone else illegally imprisoned in Egypt
Reuters’ (and Global Voices’) new Africa coverage
Our friends at Reuters launched a new site today – an Africa-focused site that lets readers drill down to stories on individual nations. On the… Read More »Reuters’ (and Global Voices’) new Africa coverage
Pining for the fjords…
At Global Voices we’re excited about cross-cultural encounters, moments where people from different countries start talking to one another on common issues, like the dialog… Read More »Pining for the fjords…
Online activism, from Brazzaville to Bahrain…
The civil unrest in Guinea is provoking discussion all over the African continent about the potential for change, specifically for the potential to remove aging… Read More »Online activism, from Brazzaville to Bahrain…