Kelele is aimed at gathering Africa’s top grass root activists for a discourse and to create a synergy on the Internet.

Young African spends 6 years in Australia, stumbling in the dark, enduring semi-homelessness and accruing thousands of dollars in debts and now puts all his lessons online so that his fellow immigrants can learn from his mistakes.

When Tony Chomba Mwangi Njanja landed in Australia in 2002, he was immediately shipped off to an unknown boarding [...]

Grandiose Parlor blog discusses why Nigerian digerati need to create web tool/social media like Ushshidi – a web tool collaboratively conceived and created by some Kenyan bloggers following post-election violence in Kenya. The tool enables Kenyans to record cases of violence as witnessed in their neighborhoods.
The emergence of Ushahidi marks another era in the [...]

Sokari – blogger and founder of BlackLooks.org and AfricanLoft member and author, gets listed among the Top-10 black bloggers.
The awarding body, BDPA Foundation, used Technorati rankings as a gauge, their citation goes:

Sokari brings a focus on all things African. This is the highest-ranked blog on the BBR (Black Blog Rankings) from outside of the United [...]

“I feel cheated because the same cabal that has been in power since independence is still in power. I feel cheated that an administration rejected by the ballot can somehow find itself into the presidency” writes Kenyan Blogger “M” at Thinker’s Room. The feeling is the same countrywide…

“Senders of the message have become the receivers as well as interactional, thus not a one way communications any more…” It is uplifting to see citizen-media being discussed in Africa. Via ITRealms, Remmy, a senior reporter with Daily Champion (Nigeria) summarizes the discussion during the 3rd regional workshop on Medias and Information and Communication Technologies [...]

First and foremost, I give glory to God Almighty, who has deemed it fit to spare our lives and allow us witness AfricanLoft’s first Xmas together…

Above is Chatterbox’s screenshot of the cyber discussions on Afrigator [viewed at about 11 AM US Central time / 17:00 GMT)- what the creators see as “Africa’s primary Social Media Aggregator”.
Mike Stopforth, one of the brains behind the concept, states while unveiling the beta version of the application in South Africa: “We pull content [...]

“Are the media colonising the blogosphere?”, Fackson Banda muses via “Thought Leader”. Excerpts:
The blogosphere, affording an opportunity to people ordinarily with little or no access to the traditional media of communication, such as newspapers, radio and television, has become an instant hit. It is an example of what it means to communicate, sometimes communicating to [...]