Stories about Ghana from June, 2006
Africa: World Cup Report Card
Says Senegalese blogger Seckasysteme (Fr): “African football is not up to par and its presence in the World Cup is mostly symbolic. Too bad that the numerous individual African talents could not orchestrate a comeback. (…) Why couldn't such talented African football players achieve the same performance in their national...
Ghana: Defeated but will Return
The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen of Ghana… gives a “post mortem” on Ghana's Defeat – they lost!
Why No Mention of Slavery in African and Haitian Fiction?
Why is there so little mention of slavery in African and Haitian Fiction? That is the question that Togolese France-based blogger Kangni Alem addresses in a prolific and well-thought out blog entry. He deplores that African fiction does not count more passages on the different waves of slavery that have...
Africa: Ghana v Brazil
Africa still blogging on football – today its African Shirts – ” We're still Ghanaian (and partly Brazilian)” Meanwhile Ethiopian blogger Conconction admits she is a Brazillian fan – oh!!!!
West Africa: Football, Science Lag and missed priorities
We start this week's round-up with the exit of the last African country in this year's FIFA World Cup tournament (Germany 2006). The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen…of Ghana says Ghana's Coming Home, but Brazil Stole Two “Goals” The Brazilians played a relatively good game, but it was...
Haiti, Ghana, Brazil: Football allegiances
Ghana's inspired performance at this year's World Cup raises issues of allegiance for Haitian-American blogger Nightshift and some of his friends.
World Cup: Dreams of Ghana again
Soul on Ice - hoping France trash Spain (remember the racist remarks of their coach about Theirry Henry “black shit”?) Meanwhile Africa hangs on cliff edge as Ghana meets Brazil -
Africa: What Internet Brings
Generation Consciente, Une Autre Afrique writes: (Fr)“A book by Cameroonian Jacques Bonjawo, Internet, a Chance for Africa [L'Internet, Une Chance Pour l'Afrique in French] talks about the benefits of new information and communication technologies for Africa. However, the Internet promotes extraversion even if it is a way to make local...
Ghana: Celebrations
The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana has a video celebration of Ghana's win over the US “Enjoy” as he says.
Ghana: American Dreams shattered
Koranteng's Toli has a slightly different take on celebrating Ghana's win over the USA – the African blogosphere is on a high right now – it's complicated – the African Nation and the American Dream – ideintity politics – READ IT.
Ghana: Football fever
Ramblings of an African Geek gets on with his Ghana fever as all of Africa rejoices at their latest win.
Ghana: How to make headphones
African Gadget shows how to make a pair of headphones from scratch – via the Takoradi Institute in Ghana
Musique Africaine
The Global football festival that is the World Cup. The best so far I've witnessed with a genuine feelgood atmosphere and a lot of goals. With Ghana the strongest African contender left in the competition my interest is still deep and I wish them luck. When an African team play...
Ghana: Win
Aderemi's Notebook celebrates Ghana's win over the Czech Republic All Africa is waiting and hoping
Africa: World cup – 1 point for Ghana & Africa
Soul on Ice is writing daily reports of an African perspective on the World Cup – Germany v Poland its David Odonkor who comes out tops!
West African blogs round-up
Under the acacias, whilst giving a brief round-up of some news from Burkina Faso writes about Rains, locusts and hunger in a blog entry titled: “What's happening in Burkina?“ The rains have started in the south of the country, and good rains are predicted for the Sahel. Steve tells me...
World Cup Playlist
Fair trade music download site Calabash Music‘s Global Downloads blog has published a playlist compiling “some great music from around the globe [that] shows the connection to soccer via these artists. Some of them played professionally, some of them own teams, some of their music has been featured at World...
A Monopoly-like Game to Carve out Africa
Mocking Africa, a French Monopoly-like game, Kangni Alem repeats the game's description [“Your goal is to explore, to conquer and to develop [the] new colonies. You will be able to betray alliances to exploit the lands of your adversaries, the goal being to own the most land at the end...
Latest in the Francophone African Blogosphere
PAN-AFRICAN For the United States of Africa Le Pangolin is fervently advocating for the dissolution of the current borders that separate African countries and that, he believes, weaken each individual African country: Je suis pour des Etats-Unis d’Afrique par zone géographique ou linguistique, car cela va permettre d’impliquer l’ensemble des...
Senegal: Blogging Mayor Proposes North-South Talks on Migrations
Reflecting on Senegal's drowned migrant crisis and migrations towards the West in general, Robert Sagna, the Mayor of Ziguinchor, Senegal blogs (Fr): “Developed countries (…) build quasi-impenetrable walls through “visas”. Visas (…) are not the right solution. (…) The youth from the South has chosen emigration. It is our responsibility...
