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Blogging from Madagascar: FOKO

FOKO wants to focus on the Malagasy people and make them a crucial factor in their unique and threatened environment.” One of their strategies is the Foko Blog Club, which trains Malagasy citizens how to use citizen media to portray their daily realities and connect to the global conversation.



FOKO was also a factor in organizing the forst Barcamp in Madagascar. It is really encouraging to see how social… Continue

Posted on January 10, 2009 at 10:23am

Swim for Africa, Swim against Poverty

Creativity, poetry and music are one thing. we take care of those in the Sawubona Project that strives to collect money for projects in Townships in South Africa.

These guys here swim and blog for Africa. Check them out.

And maybe go for a swim after composing some music?

Posted on November 5, 2008 at 11:30am

Germans Blogging in Southern Africa

While Africa seems pretty exotic to most Germans and few venture south of the Sahara it seems that there is even a German language Micro-Blogosphere in sub-Saharan Africa.



"Die Namibierin" is blogging from... you guessed it: Namibia but also explains the intricacies of South African advertising .…



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Posted on November 3, 2008 at 9:46am — 2 Comments

The African Times... from Germany

When some years ago people talked about Asia or the Islamic world I said: and what about Africa?



I usually only harvested weird looks.



This has changed recently and one of the consequences seems to be a new publishing platform:



"The African Times" a newspaper made in Germany to further communication with Africa.



The Editor writes:



"(...) The African Times, from its first edition on, is pursuing…
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Posted on September 14, 2008 at 1:30pm

A German Analysis of the South African Blogosphere

Sebastian Küpers - the person who brought Barcamps to Germany - has had a thorough look at the South African Blogosphere (in English) and is comparing it to the German Blogger community.

I am going to add some of his findings to my feeds - for sure :)

Posted on July 2, 2008 at 1:30am

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