Tim Butcher, author of the book Blood River, is dedicated to his craft. So dedicated that he took nothing but a motorbike through vast stretches of the Congo country side…
Anyhow, learning more about Tim, I came across this video, part of the material for his (apparently excellent) book Blood River. It’s a fascinating insight [...]

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo presents the previously untold stories of rape in the Congo as told first hand by the women who’ve survived…and in some cases, the men who violated them.

In the filmmaker Lisa Jackson’s own words…

My objectives in making this film are political and personal. I am propelled by the urgency [...]

Erik van Veen is the Chief Commercial Officer of MTN Uganda one of the continental telco and mobile leaders in Africa. When it comes to corporate executives, he just might also be one of the most approachable, down-to-earth people ever. I emailed Erik following a discussion on Uganda’s I-Network mailing-list about the costs of bandwidth [...]

TED2007 fellow Salim Amin has launched A24Media, a web-based content delivery site for ‘for material from journalists, African broadcasters and NGO’s from around the Continent‘.
The press release…
24 Media’s business model ensures that all contributors receive a wide and previously unknown exposure to their content, thereby generating sustainable and generous revenues from the sale of their [...]

When it comes to piracy, Africa is an especially tricky market. Most companies will state that markets in Africa are simply ‘too small’ to worry about, although it could be argued that if people paid for the software they use the market could grow. Despite this, Microsoft recently went after a major reseller of pirated [...]

Jennifer Brea of Global Voices posted an interesting article today taking a look at what the Congolese blogoshpere has to say about the upcoming United States elections…
Congolese bloggers Musengeshi Katata and Shaka Bantou have been closely following the American Democratic and Republican conventions at Forum Realisance. Both are staunch supporters of Obama and sharp critics [...]

Appfrica is a project that was started by myself, an individual living and working in Uganda. There’s a real desire expressed by students here to be able to learn and work with the latest technologies. In fact, it was one of the things specifically mentioned to me by local students at Barcamp Kampala [...]

Africa is called ‘the dark continent’ for may reasons. Primarily because it’s a virtual black hole for information, history and geographical data…
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) could play a vital role in improving agriculture and boosting food security in Africa. However, only a few African countries are capable of developing such systems, partly because of [...]

The first ever Barcamp in Uganda takes place in an hour and a half. I’ll be live blogging it from…
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The other day Erik Herman did a great job of pointing out the the implications of Twitter’s failure to scale worldwide. Well, it looks like Google felt the same way because they’ve picked what most people might view as Twitter’s biggest moment of weakness (lord knows it’s had a lot of them) to relaunch [...]