Wanaharakati wa Sokwanele Zimbabwe wametumia Google Map kuonyesha madhambi yanayofanywa na serikali ya Mugabe katika uchaguzi uliofanyika jana (Tsvangirai anadai kuwa ameshinda. Tutaona tena Kenya ikijirudia Zimbabwe?):

Sokwanele has mapped a sample of breaches logged under our Zimbabwe Election Watch (ZEW) project using Google’s map function.
The interactive map aims to give a visual impression of the scale and many ways in which the Zimbabwean government has breached the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. Elections are a process, not an event, and the same applies to rigging: the scene has been set for unfree and unfair elections on March 29th, and the conditions on the ground have been developed through many months of non-compliance with regional electoral standards.

Tazama hapa.

Obama. Kama ni kipaji cha kuzungumza, Obama amejaliwa. Kwa watu weusi hili sio jambo jipya. Watu weusi wana kipaji kikubwa sana cha kuongea hadharani, jambo ambalo linaweza kuwa limetokana na utamaduni wa miaka mingi miongoni mwa watu weusi wa kujenga uwezo wao wa kuongea hadharani kwa matumizi ya juu ya lugha, sauti, lugha ya mwili, n.k. Utamaduni huu umepewa na wahubiri weusi. Mtu mweusi akienda makanisa mengi yenye wahubiri weupe anaweza kusinzia. Hujaona mahubiri hadi umetembelea makanisa yenye wahubiri weusi. Mila hii ndio ilitupatia watu kama akina Martin Luther King, Al Sharpton na Malcolm X ambao wote ni wahubiri. Obama naye ameonyesha uwezo mkubwa sana wa kuongea ndio maana Hillary Clinton akaanza kusema kuwa “maneno ni maneno tu hayaleti chakula mezani.”

Sasa inasemekana kuwa hotuba za Obama zina nguvu za kimiujiza! Wameanza kumwita Obamasiah (wakijumuisha jina lake na neno mesiya kama Yesu alivyokuwa akiitwa). Eti anapohubiri watu huanguka na kuzimia. Wimbi hili la watu kuanguka na kuzimia wameliita “Obamania.”

Call it the Barack Obama traveling salvation show – campaign rallies and speeches that seem like the secular counterpart of tent-meeting revivals and evangelistic sermons common in the U.S. a century ago. And, in apparent similarity to the religious enthusiasm of that bygone era, some of those coming to hear the Democrat presidential candidate “preach” his message are fainting as he speaks.

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Blogu wakati mwingine zinaweza kuwa kama moto unaokuchoma vidole. Wiki iliyopita hasira za Watanzania zilimfanya mwanablogu Pernille atake kuacha kublogu:

Pernille is a well-known blogger from Denmark. She entered the African blogosphere scene when she started working in Uganda and blogging at “I’ve Left Copenhagen for Uganda”. She is now lives in Tanzania and blogs under a new name, Louder than Swahili. Last week she decided to put her blog on stand-by following comments she received via email, SMS, and phone calls, which made her uncomfortable. The issue that has generated such comments is the image of Tanzania she is displaying on her blog.

Bonyeza hapa usome kisa chenyewe.

Kila mwaka jumuiya ya wana Global Voices Online hukutana. Mkutano wa mwisho tulikutana New Delhi, India. Mwaka huu tutakutana Budapest, Hungary. Ni nafasi nzuri ya kutazama kazi zetu hasa ukichukulia kuwa ofisi zetu ziko kwenye Intaneti hivyo sio sawa na kazi ambazo mnaonana ana kwa ana kila siku. Nina furaha kuwa baada ya miaka mingi sana, mimi na Mwandani (Tunga) tutakutana ana kwa ana hapo Budapest:

Join us in Budapest, Hungary on June 27-28 for the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008! Supported by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and MediaHungaria, this year’s event will bring together the members of the Global Voices citizen media project and its wider community with a diverse group of bloggers, activists, technologists, journalists and others persons from around the world. Read on for more information about our exciting program of public discussions and workshops around the theme “Citizen Media & Citizenhood”

Malizia kusoma juu ya mkutano huu.

Sokari Ekine hakuwa amesoma Azimio la Arusha. Ila sasa amelisoma na kusema:

I had never read the Arusha Declaration and only have superficial knowledge of Julius “Mwalimu” Nyerere in terms of his role in the struggle for independence in Africa and as a Pan Africanist along with Nkrumah. But reading it now I realise what a revolutionary document the Arusha Declaration (AD) was and still is. One example of the AD which has since been dismantled in Tanzania was the removal in 1992 of all restrictions that had previously prevented Tanzanian leaders from participating in business activities. Nyerere believed it was not possible for those in leadership positions to serve both the public interests and their own private commercial interests and to do so would lead to corruption.

Inaelekea kuwa Nyerere alijua kuwa kuna viongozi mafisadi kama Lowassa ambao wakiingiza mikono yao kwenye biashara na utumishi wa umma, basi nchi imekwisha. Soma habari nzima aliyoandika Sokari aliyoiita The Spirit of Nyerere.