Organised West Africans
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…
Mutual comprehension
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…
Pambazuka (’New Dawn’ in Swahili)
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…
Why SIA?
Good article by Akwasi Aidoo of the Ford Foundation on what SIA is all about: African Solutions for Africa
West Africa’s leaders get an earful
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…
It’s good to talk…
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…
Welcome!
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…