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July 17th, 2007

Lusophony Day: Learning Through Connectedness

Jose Murilo Junior · 14:10

lingua → pt

We wanted to celebrate the Lusophony Day, as an opportunity to post about the recent launching of the Global Voices website in Portuguese. A quick googling around the keywords brought up the July 17th inspired on CPLP's foundation, but as we kept searching other dates appeared like the May 31st ... 1 comment · »»

September 29th, 2006

Macau nurtures Luso-Sino connection

Jose Murilo Junior · 23:10

Macau can be seen today as the very capital of a reinvigorated Luso-Sino friendship. In addition to holding the Economic and Commercial Cooperation Forum which happened this last weekend, the city is preparing to host the First Lusofonia Games, to be held during the week of October 7-15. The event ... 2 comments · »»

July 21st, 2006

French-Speaking Bloggers on Rabat Conference on Migration

Alice Backer · 09:07

What Will the Conference Bring? Says France-based African blogger Le Pangolin, Du 10 au 11 juillet 2006, s'est tenue à Rabat au Maroc, la première rencontre interministérielle euro-africaine sur les problèmes des migrations entre ces deux continents.Elle a regroupé 57 pays africains et européens et certaines organisations humanitaires qui se ... 2 comments · »»

July 19th, 2006

The Lusosphere reports on the 10 years of CPLP

Jose Murilo Junior · 14:47

The Community of the Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) celebrated its tenth anniversary last Monday, July 17th, in a summit that gathered its Heads of State in Guine-Bissau. It was created aiming at the solidarity of the Portuguese-speaking countries and the promotion of the Portuguese language in the international arena. Currently, ... 3 comments · »»

July 2nd, 2006

Africa: Is Homosexuality a Religion?

Alice Backer · 23:56

lingua → zht · zhs

France-based Togolese Blogger Kangni Alem reflected on homosexuality in Africa recently. Namely, he tackled claims by some on the continent that homosexuality is a heretic religion. In the process, he mentioned recent "outings" of public figures. A debate ensued that involved Martinique's lesbian blogger Le Blog de [Moi] who'd ... 4 comments · »»

June 28th, 2006

Why No Mention of Slavery in African and Haitian Fiction?

Alice Backer · 21:40

Why is there so little mention of slavery in African and Haitian Fiction? That is the question that Togolese France-based blogger Kangni Alem addresses in a prolific and well-thought out blog entry. He deplores that African fiction does not count more passages on the different waves of slavery that have ... 2 comments · »»

June 4th, 2006

Latest in the Francophone African Blogosphere

Alice Backer · 23:47

PAN-AFRICAN For the United States of Africa Le Pangolin is fervently advocating for the dissolution of the current borders that separate African countries and that, he believes, weaken each individual African country: Je suis pour des Etats-Unis d’Afrique par zone géographique ou linguistique, car cela va permettre d’impliquer l’ensemble des Africains dans la ... 0 comments · »»

May 14th, 2006

France & Francophonia Commemorate Slavery Amidst Curriculum Controversy

Alice Backer · 23:59

Image courtesy of oliviermr2 A Day of Remembrance France commemorated slavery for the first time on May 10, reports Haiti's Alterpresse: Le président francais qualifie d’infamie, la traite négrière et invite les Français à « regarder tout notre passé en face », « sans concession ». ... 2 comments · »»

Links about Sao Tome and Principe

August 26th, 2008

Wilson Bragança [pt] talks about value crises, a subject that tends to repeat itself cyclically in all generations. “What seems to be happening now, in our society, is that conduct, standards and overall sense of individual and community life are not based on ethical standards, values, but the immediate criteria, consumerist, hedonist and pragmatic.”

May 23rd, 2008

“The past, present and future of Africa will be debated for two days in Lisbon during the II International Congress of Lusophone Africa. Organized by the University of Lusophone Humanities and Technology, the event's theme is ‘Global Agenda for Lusophone Africa' and it will be attended by a range of social and political PALOP's representatives, and scholars who research these issues.” The event starts on May 28 and Orlando Castro [pt] has the full programme.

January 25th, 2008

UNICEF has just published its annual analysis of the mortality rate of children under 5 years. Among the conclusions, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, East Timor and Cape Verde have rates far above the admissible, considering Brazil as the standard intermediate and Portugal as the only one who moves to a typical position of a “developed country”. See a comprehensive report at Timor Lososae Nação [pt].

October 9th, 2007

Aluma blogs about an interesting project in Sao Tome and Principe:”…Pedro Alegria introduced USB flash card design to local craftsmen, all of whom had never seen or heard of such things before.”

December 8th, 2006

N'cho Blog writes about Google's plan to expand into Lusophone Africa, “Google is planning to invest in Portugal and use it as a way into Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe…

September 28th, 2006

September 25th, 2006

Meskel Square on “Moving on from the Digital Indaba“:
“Overall it was a huge success. One way of judging that is to look at all the discussions that are still carrying on in posts and comments and Technorati links. The discussions started with the race debate which I now wish I hadn't joined (there was just something about that pig/hairless-bulldog). But it has now moved on to thinking about what should come next.”

Timor Online writes about the 1st Lusofonia Games to be held between 7-15 October 2006 in Macau. Portuguese speaking countries and regions will compete for glories in the sports of football, futsal, beach volleyball, volleyball, basketball, taekwondo, table tennis and athletics. Apart from exciting competitions, impressive cultural performances will compose part of the games. The event will be promoted by the recently created ‘Association of the Portuguese-Speaking Olympic Committees' (ACOLOP).