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Where is Africa on the Internet?

Where is Africa on the Internet?
[spacer] April 2013 By Adama Sanneh, Director, Lettera27 Foundation In 2003, Kenyan journalist and novelist Binyavanga Wainaina wrote a satirical essay entitled “How to write about Africa”, advising journalists how they should write about Africa if they want to be published and read. He wrote: “Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the…
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Internet access is no longer a luxury

Internet access is no longer a luxury
[spacer] It is early morning in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. The traffic jam along Ngong Road, one of the city’s main feeder roads, stretches for kilometres as matatus (taxis), buses and cars try to make their way into the central business district. At the top floor of Bishop Magua Centre complex, sitting just off Ngong…
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