How to keep up with Africa
Below is a list of news sources I try to keep up with. No single human can hope to read all that is written about Africa (my interest is in Southern Africa in particular), but I try to have a good go at it. I read a lot of comment - political punditry can be tiresome at times, (see this proper dissing of some columnists), but it summarises things. Even if you have missed a lot of news, you understand more or less what happened from reading a single opinion piece. And it gives a feel of the "political weather" in a place.
I also engage in opinion writing, in the spirit of the idea that bloggers will replace newspaper columnists as writers of opinion pieces
Even the list below is too much for me, and therefore I appreciate this really clever site (Muti). Whenever I read something notable (whether I agree with it or not, notable is the only requirement), I post it there, and crucially, others do the same. This digs up many interesting things I would not otherwise have read, and also gives me a quick fix if I haven’t had time for my many other news sources.
Non RSS news sources:
AfrolVryeafrikaan
Beeld
Rapport
Sunday Ttimes
Mail & Guardian
Business Day
City Press
Christian Science Monitor - Africa
Email:
African without Borders mailing list forumBalancing act weekly newsletter
Africa Confidential.com weekly newsletter
RSS feeds:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/tectonic.rsshttp://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/index.xml
http://southafrica.blogspirit.com/index.rss
http://politics.za.net/xml/rss/feed.xml
http://www.fodder.co.za/rss.xml
http://jontyfisher.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://vry.blogsome.com”>
http://commentary.co.za/feed/
http://www.monbiot.com/feed/rss2/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/newsfeed/rss/opinion.xml
http://www.johnkay.com/rssfeed.xml
http://www.cato-unbound.org/feed/
http://www.opendemocracy.net/xml/rss/home/index.xml
http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://naijablog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://disasterafrica.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?feed=rss2
http://africanarchitecture.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://sotho.blogsome.com/feed/
http://www.gfh.squarespace.com/journal/rss.xml
http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/weblog/index.xml
http://voiceinthedesert.netfirms.com/keith/index.xml
http://jpmozambique.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://mzansiafrika.typepad.com/mzansi_afrika/rss.xml
http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/feed/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/world/africa/rss091.xml
http://theconcoction.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://kdiga.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Hi Gerhard, have you seen this site: http://afrikupdates.crispynews.com
It is similar in concept to Muti (http://muti.co.za).
Regards
Comment by thakadu — 28 May 2006 @ 2:11 pm
Thanks for pointing afrikupdates out. I have been keeping an eye on it for the last 9 days and did not see much activity there. I feel they could profit from moving over to Muti
Comment by vry — 6 June 2006 @ 10:15 pm