Organised West Africans
Found this:
Brian of Nyerere’s Ghost (a great blog) comments below that there don’t seem to be many civil society groups in West Africa. Not sure what he’s comparing the region with but here’s a list of groups that immediately comes to mind: Country Womens’Association of Nigeria (Cowan), West African Refugees and Internally-Displaced Persons Network […]
Mutual comprehension
Thanks Larry, for pointing out:
An unsung but fascinating project aimed at promoting African integration is being pursued at the Center for the Advanced Study of African Society in Cape Town. The idea is to develop orthographies for African languages which haven’t been formally annotated with agreed styles, spellings and rules; but Professor Kwesi Prah […]
Pambazuka (’New Dawn’ in Swahili)
Just came across this:
A shout out for Pambazuka News - the free “information service for social justice in Africa” reaching 60,000 people every Friday. It features a challenging editorial every week and, like this blog, highlights news about groups involved in the Special Initiative for Africa, PLUS: sections on Conflict, Emergencies, and Crises, […]
Why SIA?
Found this post:
Good article by Akwasi Aidoo of the Ford Foundation on what SIA is all about: African Solutions for Africa
Read the rest of this great post here.
West Africa’s leaders get an earful
Came across this today:
140 people from all over West Africa have attended the first ever Ecowas Civil Society Forum in Accra, Ghana. Kayode Fayemi of the CDD writes to say that the outcome of the meeting will be discussed by the Ecowas Council of Ministers this week in Accra and the recommendations tabled before […]
It’s good to talk…
Ben sends us:
Key political and social actors from Guinea-Bissau are meeting on historic Gorée Island this weekend to try and break the cycle of coup and political failure in their country. The talks were to have begun on the 15th of September but, writes Gorée Institute director, Breyten Breytenbach, “on the morning of September 14th, […]
Welcome!
Heather told us about:
This blog is dedicated to tracking the work of individuals and civil society groups across Africa whose goals are to build peaceful, stable communities, to support greater communication and collaboration across Africa’s many different fences and frontiers and to grow new, well-rooted African institutions to take that work forward.
These ideas are embodied […]