Koluki hails from Angola and has been working extensively in Southern Africa. She holds an MSc in Economic History and is a writer, former journalist and regular contributor with articles for Angolan and international publications. She airs her views on “life, the universe and everything” @ Koluki (http://koluki.blogspot.com)
Latest posts by koluki
Angola: Blogging from inside the country (I)
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...
Discovering the Mozambican blogosphere through the “Diary of a Sociologist”
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,...
Angola: Kitanda – A Gateway to the African “Lusosphere”
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...