Link-a-lot

Was blurfing for news of the Pope’s visit to Cameroon and found a few gems from our friends in West Africa that I highly recommend. 

• “Scribbles from the Den” is the blog of a journalist called Dibussi Tande.  The analysis and reporting on it is quite in-depth.  Even with limited knowledge of Cameroonian politics and society, I am able to enjoy it.
• “Mabi’s World” is another journalist-penned blog.  Mabifo writes very well on a range of issues, most media and journalism related.
• I wish I had found the blog “Cameroon Literature in English” last year when I participated in the Africa Reading Challenge.  The blog hasn’t been updated for a few months, but I found it very useful and current.  Perhaps I was just surprised how much the rest of Africa is publishing and how far behind Uganda is.
• “Our Man in Cameroon” is the token expat blog.  Fortunately it is not one of ‘those’ blogs that make me want to flay myself whenever I read them.  It is great from an outside-in view of Cameroon. 

 

Closer to home, Peregrine has interesting suggestions on how to reorganize Kampala.  Visit his blog here for his dreams of building a subway system in the city.

Not Just Good for Malewa

Bamboo bicycles: that’s going to be the next big thing in Uganda.

 

 

Calfee, an eco-friendly design company, plans to start the production of its bamboo bicycles in Uganda.  The company will train Ugandan artisans on how to turn local bamboo into strong, inexpensive bicycle frames. The bicycles will be exported abroad, but a number of them will be left in the county to provide cheap transportation for local residents.