In this week's blog roundup, Dibussi Tande reflects on the similarities between the fall of the Berlin wall and communism in Eastern Europe, and the push for political liberalism in Africa. Elsewhere, Tanzania's education system is failing, Kenya faces a country-wide power blackout, and homophobia rears its ugly head.

This week, Dibussi Tande reviews blogs on , a relatively new blogging and communication platform specifically designed for the sub-Saharan blogger and writer. According to its founders, Maneno 'allows those with limited or narrow-bandwidth internet to use a system that is lightweight and straightforward in functionality'.

In this week’s blog review, Dibussi Tande discusses discrimmination and injustice against the Baka of Cameroon, the ongoing service delivery portests in South Africa, and the recent decision by 14 Somali villages to renounce to practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

In this week’s blog review, Dibussi Tande looks at the attacks on demonstrators in Guinea, and a recent survey in Zimbabwe on the performance of the Unity Government. He also reviews a blog on Western Union money transfers on the continent, a recent rant by Namibian ex-president Nujoma in defence of Robert Mugabe, and an organization giving an online voice to war-ravaged communities on Northern Uganda.

In this week's review of the African blogosphere, Dibussi Tande looks at Africa's inability to meaningfully exploit its natural resources, corruption in Cameroon, the ongoing water crisis in Kenya and questions of water catchment destruction, and male rape in Congo's ongoing violence.

In this week's review of the African blogosphere, Dibussi Tande looks at, among other topics, a call for corruption to be declared 'patrimonicide', the apparent complacency of the UK government in dealing with piracy off the coast of Somalia, and the politics of language in Cameroonian literature.

The purchase of huge swathes of African farmland by rich countries, Obama's visit to Ghana, women's official dress in Buganda and the proliferation of new political parties in Zambia are among the topics covered in this week's round-up of the African blogosphere, by Dibussi Tande.