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It’s been another busy week. Appfrica launched the twitter mashup FricaFact, a place for sharing and learning facts about Africa.

Editorials

Looking for the African Akira

Thoughts on the state of African literature, film, and fiction. What’s curbing the creative writing class of the continent?

“Who Wants to be the Egg?”

Blogging a conversation I had about developmental aid Twitter with Benin designer Theresa.

More Useful Apps

Applications that help me out quite a bit as a blogger.

News

Top 10 African Internet Countries

Internet World Stats lists the 10 leading African countries when it comes to connectivity and reach per capita.

Andrew Mwenda’s Offices Raided

Writer/Journalist Andrew Mwenda was traveling when authorities raided the offices of his magazine the Independent.

CurrentTV’s “Chinatown Africa”

CurrentTV correspondent Mariana explores the growing presence of China in Africa.

Freedom of Speech or Defamation?

DeBeers is threatening the domain registrar and web host of pranksters who mocked them online. What will this mean for international laws concerning copyright and parody.

The World of 100

One of my favorite artists Toby Ng takes a visual look at the world, if it were a village of 100 people.

From GosDot: Programming, Hacks and Tutorials

Conceptualizing the Perfect Email Application

What would the perfect email app do and look like? I made a mock-up at Gosdot, let me know what you think.

Free International SMS Gateways

Completely gratis ways to send from email to SMS and from web to SMS.

Links to Appfrica

White African linked in regarding the upcoming Kampala Facebook Clinic.

Theresa linked in on her blog SubjectVerbObject discussing our Twitter exchange.

About the Author: Jonathan Gosier is a software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he incubates and invests in East African entrepreneurs as the CEO of Appfrica Labs. He's also a 2009 TEDGlobal Fellow.

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