Aug 8, 2007

Still more alternative media available everyday on LeftClick

We've added another excellent alternative news service to our audio offerings here on LeftClick. Pambazuka is a Pan African weekly social justice podcast which is an an adjunct of a multimedia project whose core is a web journal:
Pambazuka’ is Kiswahili for ‘dawn’. As a verb, it means ‘arise’ or ‘awaken’. Pambazuka News is an authoritative pan-African electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa. It offers comprehensive weekly coverage, cutting edge commentary and in-depth analysis on politics and current affairs, development, human rights, refugees, gender issues and culture in Africa. It is intended as a tool for progressive social change.

Pambazuka News, published in English and French. Pambazuka News has been published in more than 300 issues since 2001. It now has an estimated readership of around 500,000.

Pambazuka also offers a vlog -- a video podcast.