Global Voices Online

White African posts an idea of his for web technology in Africa “that could change the way Africans communicate, trade and interact with each other and the world.”

Recent Links also in Sub-Saharan Africa

Read an interview at Black Looks with Nigerian digital artist, Kenneth Shofela Coker.

Erik discusses Obama's new media strategies for his trip to Ghana: We’re launching an SMS platform to allow citizens to submit questions, comments and words of welcome (in English and in French) . Using a local SMS short code in Ghana (1731) , Nigeria (32969) , South Africa (31958) and Kenya (5683), as well as a long code across the rest of the world*

Kenyan Poet, singer and actor Grand Master Masese fears for his life after a series of bizarre phone incidences in the past week.
On Friday night, he received an SMS threatening his life. It read: “Umekua ukijifanya mjanja but mwisho wako umefika” (You think you are clever but your end is here).”