Kenyan Pundit

Bitange Ndemo and Nesbitt of Kencall are featured. Click here to watch.

AOB: Rising Voices has announced their second round of grant funding of up to $5,000 for citizen media outreach projects…”Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own.” Deadline to apply is November 30th. This is a great outreach initiative and I’d love to see more projects from Africa being funded.

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Was interviewed last week for a neat radio show (and not just because they had me on!) called Spark, check it out.

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Startups in Kenya -”all about entreprenuership, start-ups, venture capitalist, and netpreneurs in Kenya.”

Includes such gems such as a guide to setting up a rural cyber cafe from an entrepreneur’s perspective (beats your average NGO-produced guide to “bridging the digital divide”). Just wish he’d blog more…but maybe he’s busy being an entrepreneur

Edit: Check out Harry’s innovative company - Softlaw Limited. This is why I’ll remain an eternal Afro-optimist, there’s opportunity in Africa I’m telling you…

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Two recent finds that I enjoy. Both blogging from Uganda:

1. Jackfruity

2. Communist Socks and Boots.

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- Imnakoya comments on Black Looks post on poor links among African bloggers. I used to do a lot of his point one i.e. link to other Kenyan/African bloggers at least every couple of days, but this habit dropped off as I got busier and spent less time blogging. I will do my best to get back into this habit at least once a week and encourage other bloggers to do the same…it really is a good way to boost both readership and rankings.

- Soldier of Africa - excellent blog by a South African soldier who’s currently stationed in Darfur.

- Why Zuma won’t win the succession race. It’s all about the ANC party nomination process and while Zuma might have a lot of popular support (still????!!!!), the masses have no say in the nomination process. In any event, it should be an interesting year for South African politics.

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