Just shared a recap of my FOSS Backstage 2025 presentation on open source adoption in Africa.
Read it on my blog at: https://joseph.zikusooka.com/?p=2617
joseph.zikusooka.comA recap of my presentation at FOSS Backstage 2025 – Joseph Zikusooka ~ Zik
Recent searches
Search options
Administered by:
#africa
30 posts29 participants4 posts today
How can North Africa harness its ‘green dividend?
The sunbaked deserts and wind-swept coasts of North Africa could power not just the region but much of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa as well
Arab News PK · How can North Africa harness its ‘green dividend?’The sunbaked deserts and wind-swept coasts of North Africa could power not just the region but much of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa as well, offering a blueprint for energy resilience in an era of climate disruption. Yet this potential remains constrained. While individual countries have made strides in the adoption of renewable energy, collective progress is hamstrung by decades of political discord, fragmentation, and infrastructural isolation.
A river ‘died’ overnight in #Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a #Chinese-owned #mine
By RICHARD KILLE and JACOB ZIMBA
March 15, 2025
KITWE, Zambia (AP) — "Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of #pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers (60 miles) downstream.
"The spill happened on Feb. 18 when a tailings dam that holds acidic waste from a #CopperMine in the north of the country collapsed, according to investigators from the Engineering Institution of Zambia.
"The collapse allowed some 50 million liters of waste containing concentrated acid, dissolved solids and heavy metals to flow into a stream that links to the #KafueRiver, Zambia’s most important waterway, the engineering institution said.
"'It is an #environmental disaster really of catastrophic consequences,' said Chilekwa Mumba, an environmental activist who works in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province."
https://apnews.com/article/mining-pollution-china-zambia-environment-93ee91d1156471aaf9a7ebd6f51333c1
#RecycleCopper #CopperMining #Pollution #WaterIsLife #Africa
AP News · A river ‘died' overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine
I contributed an essay to this book, which is a collection of academic-type writings by Africans who write speculative fiction, on their influences and worldbuilding and such things. I particularly talk about how my research into pre-colonial African cultures inspired me to imagine a future without central governments, where technology has enabled direct democracy. It's now a a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist!
@bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #sff #AmWritingSFF #Africa
Mahmoud Ahmed is a national icon of Ethiopia, a musician who rose to prominence during the time of Haile Selassie, and whose songs are known by every generation, though he hasn’t released a new track in decades. Now, he’s retiring, and @thecontinent spoke to him days before his final concert in Addis Ababa. Here’s the interview — writer Maya Misikir suggests listening to it accompanied by Ahmed’s most famous track, “Tizita,” (sometimes known as “Tezeta”) which is a song about nostalgia.
https://continent.substack.com/p/i-would-be-happy-to-die-on-that-stage
#Africa #Ethiopia #MahmoudAhmed #Music ##Tezeta #Tizita #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
The Continent · ‘I would be happy to die on that stage’
Floofy early morning ponder
#Africa #museums #GLAM #HumanRemains
'Museums and other cultural and educational institutions should stop the public display of African ancestral remains, a parliamentary policy briefing has said.
Commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations, the Laying Ancestors to Rest report addresses the ethical, cultural and historical concerns surrounding African ancestral remains, many of which were taken during colonial rule.'
Africa: Covid-19 - How Did Africa Defy the Odds With Fewer Deaths?: [Thomson Reuters Foundation] The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to decimate African populations, but that didn't happen. Why? http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJWR66 #Africa #COVID19 #PandemicResponse #PublicHealth #HealthStatistics
Age of “climate whiplash” puts residents of Africa’s fast-growing cities in danger
As global warming intensifies heavy rainfall and drought, cities with poor drainage and water systems are struggling to adapt and protect people, especially in the Global South
Climate Home News · Age of "climate whiplash" puts residents of Africa's cities in dangerAs climate change intensifies heavy rainfall and drought, Africa's cities are struggling to adapt and protect people
The dazzle at the waterhole
Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. A new study explores what can be done to save them.
From @ConversationUS: The research "put together data from 1,325 surveys of elephant populations — everything we could find — to evaluate how elephant numbers in Africa have changed."
The ConversationAfrica’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study
More from 
The Conversation Africa
Internet shutdowns at record high in #Africa as access ‘weaponised’
The Guardian · Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’
Q. across Africa as US Foreign Aid is withdrawn, will Chinese aid replace it?
Chinese aid has mostly been differently focusses (funding infrastructure rather than social services), and certainly China's Govt. may see the potential for extending influence, but unless its character is radically altered, for African countries while infrastructure may continue to improve with Chinese help, social (poverty-focussed) services look threatened unless African states themselves take them up?
Across The Dark Continent. Bicycle Diaries from Africa 1931-1936
English edition of the bestseller “Rowerem i pieszo przez Czarny Ląd”.
A solitary traveller moves tirelessly forward. His path leads him through breathtaking landscapes, past picturesque waterfalls, smoking volvanoes, countless herds of wild animals reigning over boundless spaces, through desert sand, the barren savannah and overgrown forest trails.
https://cycling-books.com/photographic-books/across-the-dark-continent-kazimierz-nowak-2019/
Artistic portrait of a leopard high in a tree, photographed in Botswana Africa.
#leopard #bigcat #feline #botswana #africa #safari #artistic #wildlife #wildlifephotography #portrait #animal #nature #painterly #spotted #AYearForArt #buyIntoArt #giftideas #wallart #artforsale @joancarroll
https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/leopard-portrait-botswana-africa-artistic-joan-carroll.html
New route for old exploitation
A US-backed infrastructure project [the Lobito Corridor] in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/03/new-route-for-old-exploitation
africasacountry.comNew route for old exploitationA US-backed infrastructure project in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.
"Twist N Stoop" - Painted is a Long-tailed Hawk, a mega-obscure bird of prey that lives in deep African forests and has an inconvenient habit of killing its cagemates when kept in captivity. Hence, perhaps, its mega-obscurity. Gouache, watercolors, and ink, 2019.
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#AmericaIsATerroristState
Укринформ · Kremlin stepping up propaganda efforts in Africa
Are you attending FOSS Backstage 2025?
Join my session on fostering FOSS adoption in underserved communities today, March 11, at 11:35 CET ~ Wintergarten.
I will be sharing key strategies and insights, with a special focus on Africa. @fossback
https://25.foss-backstage.de/session/empowering-african-communities-using-open-source-software
