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Bay Tsimane blogs from Digital Citizen Indaba taking place in South Africa: “This year’s Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) brought to the fore in a much vivid and illustrative manner the impact of mobile technologies such as MXit, a cellphone chat service, in changing the lives of communities. “

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Recent Links also in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alicia Grinberg of Road to Ethiopia - Camino a Etiopía describes her personal experience of traveling to Ethiopia as an Argentianian adopting mother.

Rombo of What an African woman thinks criticises a recent article by Mathew Parris for The Times UK titled “As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God“. And she wonders: “why does everybody assume that no African had ever climbed the mountain before the adventurous foreigner came along and did it, and taught him how? (For porter’s sake, of course.) Who’s to say, definitively and conclusively? So the lion hasn't published his memoirs, is that ample basis on which to conclude that the hunter was always the victor?”

Jidesalu Photos posted a picture of an atypical motorcycle helmet seen in Lagos, where the use of helmets came in to force from New Year's day.