And a gift for all the Philly Future bloggers -- over 40 new voices from Africa. Inspired by Philly Future, some students at Suffolk University-Dakar and myself have launched WindowonWestAfrica.net -- the first blog portal in West Africa.
We haven't yet opened the comments up to the world -- but the content is available to all. Forget the regional problems with computer literacy, to start. Or even that most of these college bloggers have English as their third or fourth language. (French being the most widely known European language in West Africa).
From poetry to personal ads to pleas for African unity, WoWA has some wonderful content that might change the way you think about Africa. Stop on by.
Finally, let me add to the Philly DL crowd, I'll be back in July for a bit & hope to catch up w/ some of you then.
incredible
incredible stuff thom! and i'm not sure if i met you at Drinking Liberally, but i should be around come July.
Great portal
exemplifies one of the great aspects of the web: allowing people to sample other ideas (and cultures) right from home.
Thanks!
We're working on the design--don't even have good graphic software yet. But it's only going to improve.
Sure you did
1. One of those older bald white guys.
2. Usually talking about problems with Patriot Act, the case against Intelligent Design (We won! We won!), and whatnot.
3. Unlike yourself, a poor photographer -- but the gallery's @ Dakar Outwards
Take care, man
Congrats, Thom -- this is
Congrats, Thom -- this is important work.
Yo, Matt!
Thanks to you getting me involved with Philly Future, and Karl for making the whole thing happen in Philly.
Back to Dakar: we're doing what interests the student community--so not hardcore politics like DailyKos. Nor, with under a 100 students total, do we have the talent pool of Philly Future: a collection of "regional" bloggers, many of whom have national readerships and reputation.
But you gotta start somewhere. Again, we're first in the region.
For folks looking for more than student gossip, Forever African is a young lady with some interesting ideas. Likewise, Issam Chleuh's got some good stuff. And the occasional serious discussion is like so -- Optimistic or Pessimistic about Africa?
Again, my best to the DL crowd.