How did this all happen? How was it that just a few months ago I was sitting in a swanky Nairobi bar with Daudi Were, chatting about the good life, and brainstorming ideas for an African Bloggers Conference. And now … this?

That photograph was taken in Nakuru - a smallish city in Eastern Kenya, not [...]

All this blah-blah-blah about citizen media and the democratization of participatory communication … all the traveling and the workshops and the guides and conference panels … the true end-goal of it all … the dream … the mecca … was to get mentioned in a rap song.
And now that it’s happened, I’m trying to figure [...]

Voces Bolivianas, one of the first five recipients of a Rising Voices citizen media outreach award, was featured yesterday on the BBC program, The World. In the four minute feature Ruxandra Guidi interviews project facilitator Mario Duran and Voces Bolivianas participant and Aymara translator, Dora Romero.
Congratulations Voces Bolivianas for the much-deserved recognition! You can read [...]