How possible is it that we are being compared to Somalia (a country with an unstable Government) & the Central African Republic? How could that be?
The Shocking Reality of Zambia’s Web Presence. | Zedcloud.com
Zambia is one of three countries in the world that has no government web presence. This is kind of shocking.
In Uganda, a ruling this week in a landmark case of two journalists seeking to compel their government’s disclosure of multinationals oil deals highlighted the challenges to public transparency just before media leaders, press freedom advocates, officials, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gather in Ghana next week at the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information.
A strange thing has happened in the Zambian blogosphere. Rather than grow, it appears to have shrunk in recent times. In the early days of this blog we saw all kinds of other Zambian blogs popping up. Today very few Zambians blogs are updated or maintained. Many people discovered that starting a blog is quick and easy. Few realise how difficult it is to maintain one.
Zambian Economist: State of the Zambian Internet
Go read the rest of The Zambian Economist’s State of the Zambian Internet commemorating his third anniversary as, and I’ve said it before, Zambia’s best blog. Some issued discussed: “authoritarian incompetence” when it comes to state-media online; the rise of online Zambian talk radio; and the cannibalization of the Zambian blogosphere by social media.
map showing world coverage of GSM - cellular phone coverage. the yellow shows 3G coverage. it’s fascinating to see the extent of the coverage and the huge huge gaps that remain.
This is important.
The blog Photo’s of Chantal Biya’s Hair proves, once again, that the internet is a force for unprecedented good.
Botswana Music Guitar “Itshoke Tsvangirai” (via Bokete7)
This whole Youtube channel is fantastic. I like Ronnie’s guitar playing the best. The title apparently means “be patient Tsvangarai.”
Ninja: Here in South Africa the taxis play rave music fokken loud my bru. You can hear it from the next city when the taxi comes through, you hear DOOM DOOM DOOM—they gooi the rap-rave megamixes pumping like a nightclub. So my main inspiration is the taxis. The whole album is based on the sound it’s gonna make when it’s pumping through a taxi—It’s that high energy shit you can’t compare.
I don’t really have much to say about these guys except they sound like Dutch-style rap-rave a la De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig with a kind of Afrikaaner chip on their shoulder.
‘Idiot guerilla film-makers go to African country and make terrible film dripping with stereotypes’
A word about Vice « Things Seen and Heard…
I haven’t watched it yet. I kinda know what to expect.
