Kenya

There are some more reflections coming out about the recent WorldSocial Forum…

For me, one of the real achievements of this WSF has been thewonderful turnout of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex(LGBTI) activists here (particularly from Africa)…

Of the few languages I’ve had the privilege to learn (badly) in my life, Kiswahili(Swahili) is my favourite…

It seemed strange that amongst the hundreds of organisations’ stallsringing the inner circle of the World Social Forum stadium in Nairobithere were only two that served food…

Anti-water privatization activists from all over Africa met today atthe World Social Forum to launch a new African Water Network aimed atstrengthening co-operation and co-ordinating efforts to ‘oppose waterprivatization in all its forms’; to work for a participatory model ofpublic control over water; and to assert that water is a fundamentalhuman right…

With a renewed vigour and fresh intensity, the World Social Forumfeels like it’s beginning to hit its stride…

As we arrived this morning at the stadium where the World SocialForum is taking place, the traffic had come to a standstill…

Day 2 of the Forum and the wazungu (white people) are allstarting to turn various shades of pink from sunburns and heatexposure…

Recommendations for governments – and addresses of action groups that will keep them honest.…

Katharine Ainger takes issue with a model of agriculture that’s turning small farmers from stewards of the land into servants.…