Chiperoni ku Basel

Category: blogafrica

  • Bringing technology to Africa

    Here’s a cross-reference to Mike McKay’s blog post on TED and Africa:
    Hacktivate » TED gives Africans free laptops

  • Malawi music

    More crosslinking to Cy’s Film. Or have a look at the video:

  • Malawi bloggers

    When I started blogging back in Jan 2003, one of my high flying and lofty ideas was to help cross the digital divide and point to content about Malawi. A goal I haven’t really managed to keep. But from time to time I’ve pointed to various Malawi sites. It’s great to see that the number of fellow Malawi bloggers is increasing.

    There’s:

    • Victor Kaonga, currently based in Sweden, raising an interesting question “Is Malawi really poor?”. Victor is also writing about Malawi at Global Voices Online.
    • Cryton blogging from the UK about his studies and work and how life in GB compares to Malawi. I like the way he interweaves his texts with Chichewa comments. He’s got an interesting theory regarding soap operas. In my opinion the number of drinking holes is equally high in Malawi.
    • And Soyapi visited Yahoo! HQ
    • There’s another interesting blog collecting information about Africa’s connectivity.

  • Free Software for Malawi

    Alex Antener presents a talk on his Malawi projects:

    Freie Software – Eine Chance für Afrika, (in German)

    Very interesting, and lots of screens with GNU Linux.

    [update] The official recording of the talk is available online.