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Where to get a different perspective on the goings-on in Africa...

posted by Ory Okolloh at 16h30 GMT on Oct 5

We all know that the traditional media outlets often provide biased coverage of Africa, if at all. So where do you go if you want to get a more nuanced picture of the continent?

Blogs, of course.

Some of my recommendations on where to get started:

  • African Path: The uber-blog for African news, featuring some of the top bloggers and writers from across the continent. Sign up to their mailing list to receive regular updates.
  • Global Voices Sub-Saharan Africa coverage - the BEST place to get an introduction to the range of bloggers in Africa.
  • Afrigator: an aggregator of African blogs.
  • Blog Africa: another aggregator of African blogs.
  • African Women Blogs: an aggregator focusing specifically on women bloggers.
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Submitted by Amanda (not verified) on Tue, 10/16/2007 - 13:02.

Those are good starts.

I'd also recommend:

Pambazuka - http://www.pambazuka.org
Global Voices - http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
Business Day - http://www.businessday.co.za
IRIN News - http://www.irinnews.org/

Poetry International - http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org - often features African poets.

For a rounded view of Zimbabwe I'd recommend Kubatana of course, http://www.kubatana.net, and our blog site: http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/

Of course, a Google News Search - http://news.google.com/ - for the country or topic of your choice can also bring up a range of results, and is often a good place to start to get a mixture of takes on a current news topic.

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Thank you

Submitted by Mar (not verified) on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 17:08.

Hello,

Just wanted to say thank you for the links, I will surely be checking them out regularly :-).

Thank you.

Best,

Mar

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