Global Voices Online

Religious political parties are entering Kenyan politics. Young Joint thinks religion should stay out of politics.

Dumisani argues that state funeral for P.W. Botha is simply a bad idea, “We actually have a debate about whether it's appropriate to name South Africa's main international airport after O.R. Tambo, a giant in making South Africa the country that it is today, and then we have a crazy dictator get hero status?”

Trinidad and Tobago's police comply promptly with a request from their London counterparts for a DNA sample. Why, wonders the Modest Goddess, didn't they act with the same promptness in connection with DNA testing for a now infamous local case involving the murder of a minor?

The central issue in Jamaica's next general election, says Xamayca, is determining who has “ownership” of the country.

Geoffrey Philp publishes the results of his Bob Marley/Rastafari survey and posts an “In My Own Words” piece with Jamaican writer Donna Weir-Soley.

Francis Wade tries to put his finger on the thing he believes makes Jamaicans an “unreflective” people: “Our reluctance to pursue these inner questions leaves the wild contradictions in our lives firmly place. It therefore means that they never get resolved on a national scale.“

Mahmood's blogs was officially unblocked today. He had to make some concessions in order to lift the ban on his site; specifically, he removed few posts and all attendant comments on those articles until the related case discussed in them expire. The gag order related to the case was issued by the High Court published on the 5th of October, 2006.