Wajibu Magazine is out: Digitizing Kenya

Now Available in all major bookstores in Nairobi.

Content:

• Digitizing Kenya: some cracks in the digital divide
• Preventing collective amnesia: The challenge of preserving digital materials in the age of the internet
• Tourism and the Internet: what prospects for the small operator?
• Blogging About Kenya: National Discourse in a Transnational Space
• Digitally Networked Technology in Kenya's 2007-2008 Post-Election Crisis
  

Features:

• Making a difference: Africa Yoga Project – Journey into Power with Baron Baptiste
• Youth Speaks: Daring to live anew / Rose Njeri Ng’anga /
• Book review: It’s our turn to eat / Michaela Wrong /
  
• Poetry by Philo Ikonya

For more information email: gwakuraya (at) gmail (dot) com

Last call for submissions on "Digitizing Kenya"!

Wajibu Magazine is calling again for submissions of articles for an issue entitled, "Digitizing Kenya – The impact of multimedia on the socio-cultural and political landscape in Kenya". This was supposed to be the first issue of the year but the editorial team felt it was important to have a special issue on, "Kenya - One Year later" which has just come out. Click HERE for more details on the content and where you can purchase.

The Wajibu team is opening up the calling for submissions again for the second issue this year on all aspects of how digital technology is shaping public discourse, culture, politics and economy in Kenya. Topics of particular (but not exclusive) interest are:

· The internet and social justice
· How development operates within the new face of communications
· Integrating digital technologies into mainstream media
· Trade and economy
· Civil society interactions
· ‘Good governance’ and human rights discourses
· Cultural interactions
· The evolution of content

Words: 1200 – 2000

Deadline: April 25^th 2009

Publication Date: Early June

WAJIBU: a journal of social and ethical concern, is a Kenyan journal that has been published in Kenya for the past 22 years and has subscribers not only in Kenya but in various other countries in Africa and abroad. Every three months readers are treated to an array of in-depth analytical coverage of issues such as “Peacebuilding: gaining or losing?” “The Millennium development goals,” “Education: a constant challenge,” “Roadmap to a just society,” “Culture and values,” “Traditional African wisdom and modern life,” “Human dignity and the value of one life,” and other issues of major concern to Africans and those who love Africa .

For further information or to submit: dpinkenya (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk