The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 1,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading
In the ongoing process of researching for my MA thesis, I’ve been most recently interested by how mobile phones are used in a context of activism, for advocacy, organisation or mobilisation purposes. Published in 2010, SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in … Continue reading
So I’ve submitted my thesis proposal recently. While procrastinating, I stumbled upon this website that lets you make word clouds out of a piece of text. To try it out I entered my proposal to see what keywords it would … Continue reading
Happy New Year! WordPress has this little tool that prepared an overview my blog stats for 2011. Interesting to note that my post on Ernest Cole is still the one attracting the most visitors to my blog… maybe it’s because … Continue reading
It’s back to school for me. After the long process of administrative bullshit to get all my papers in order to register, I’m finally starting my MA in Media Studies at Wits. I just finished the first step in preparing … Continue reading
I’m reposting here a blog post I wrote for Climate Change and Women. I was recently attending the events around COP17 and C17 in Durban with Women’sNet doing a workshop with women community journalists on integrating online tools to cover … Continue reading
This is a blog post I prepared for Women’s Net in collaboration with Fanisa Masia. I’m reposting it here. Following the Jules High School Case, Women’s Net organized a seminar to advocate for the end of violence against women through … Continue reading
Affiche pour le film documentaire “Afro-Karayib: Ap-leve” réalisé par ma soeur. Le documentaire traite de la danse afro-caribéenne. Poster for the documentary film “Afro-Karayib: Ap-leve” directed by my sister. The film is about Afro-Caribbean dance.
I’ve recently started to volunteer with Women’s Net, a South African organisation ” that works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa, through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)”. I first got to know the organisation … Continue reading
Book cover design for the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity. (CREATE) Design de la couverture d’un livre pour le Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity.
Illustrations, Design graphique et mise en page d’un guide de plaidoyer sur le droits sociaux économiques en Afrique du Sud réalisé pour Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute. Illustrations, Graphic Design and Layout of a handbook on advocacy for socio-economic … Continue reading
Last Monday, I’ve attended the Durban Sings! launch at the recent Keleketla Library. Built on the ruins of a ‘native prison’ during apartheid on what is now the Drill Hall the Keleketla library. The Drill Hall has been in the … Continue reading
I’ve recently submitted some personal design work I made to Memefest, which describes itself as an international online festival of radical communication. I think the initiative is brilliant, there are so few online communities oriented towards social or activist communication, … Continue reading
I’ve done a talk on the Tech Sans Violence Campaign a little bit more than a year ago at an Open Forum organized by Communautique in Montreal. Communautique just recently posted the video online on youtube: At the time the … Continue reading
