Grandiose Parlor

Some Happenings in my Neck of the Woods:
What is America agenda in Somalia? Peace? Fight terrorism? Strategic relevance?
“Washington backed the warlords in their losing battle against the Islamists. And it tacitly approved Ethiopia’s military intervention to support the TFG. It has even been passing aerial surveillance reports to Addis Ababa, according to US news reports. […]

On May 13 2006, a petrol (gasoline) pipeline exploded at the waterside village of Ilado, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of Lagos killing at least 200 people, according to reports in Yahoo! and an earlier post on this site. Seven months later, up to 700 people in another suburb of Lagos died again from […]

It’s amazing how blogs and citizen media in general have made global interaction easy. The barrier to entry is almost next to nothing, even in places with some serious infrastructural limitations, people blog.
If not for the emergence of blogs, how on earth would I come across the interesting folks I met in New Delhi during […]

Still grumpy from the sour taste the Blood Diamonds movie left in my mouth last night, I woke up to read about the war between Somalia and Ethiopia. What a way to celebrate theYuletide!
The hand-writings of the war mongers have been very clear on the wall, and events in the last couple of weeks have […]

To the millions of web-content mongering fanatics, geeky web 2.0 aficionados, web-based activists/advocates, bloggers and general members of “Citizen Media” Inc, the year 2006 is for you. You are Time’s Person of the Year.
I hope the African mainstream media turns a new leaf this coming year…the world is fast leaving them behind, and their readers […]