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July 22nd, 2007

Angola: Blogging from inside the country (I)

lingua → pt

With a total population estimated at just under 16 million, five years after the end of the thirty-year long civil war, the state telecommunications enterprise Angola Telecom’s fixed-line network still serves less than one percent of the population, Internet Service Providers hardly serve one person per one thousand people and ... 0 comments · read »

June 30th, 2007

Discovering the Mozambican blogosphere through the “Diary of a Sociologist”

koluki · 22:11 · Sub-Saharan Africa

lingua → es · pt

While navigating around the Mozambican blogosphere, I came across the “Diary of a Sociologist” – a blog by Carlos Serra, a Maputo-based Mozambican sociologist associated to the University Eduardo Mondlane, the country’s public university. It has, therefore, the potential to offer an interesting mix of personal commentary and academic observation, ... 1 comment · read »

June 6th, 2007

Angola: Kitanda – A Gateway to the African “Lusosphere”

koluki · 22:42 · Sub-Saharan Africa

lingua → pt

If you ever want to get your way into the African “lusosphere”, one of the best places to start is the blog “Kitanda” (“Marketplace” in Kimbundu, one of Angola's national languages). Kitanda has become along the years, since its launch in 2004, an unavoidable reference in the “lusosphere”. Mainly dedicated to ... 11 comments · read »