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.

cc Elvira Van Noort In this week's blog roundup, Dibussi Tande reflects on the 4th annual “Digital Citizen Indaba” (DCI), which was held on September 5-6 2009 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. The Indaba brought together bloggers, podcasters, vodcasters, mobile journalists, citizen reporters, new media practitioners, online industry experts and civil society representatives from Africa and beyond.

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.

The and his family’s stranglehold on the country, one Malawian’s sense of national pride, the ponzi schemes are among the topics Dibussi Tande covers in his latest round-up of the African blogosphere.

Dibussi reviews the following blogs:

Edirisa
Rafiki Kenya
OoTheNigerian
Agendia Aloysius
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Dibussi reviews the following blogs:

Island Crisis
David Ajao
Ethan Zuckerman
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Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

Upstation Station Mountain Club
A Nairobian's Perspective!
Welcome to Kumasi
Inari Media
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Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

The Spear in Arabia
Marvin Tumbo
Startups Nigeria
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Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

Afrodissident
Casmir Igbokwe
What An African Woman Thinks
Bombastic Element

Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

Agendia Aloysius
Nigerian Best Forum
Gef’s Outlook
Tgoose's Blog
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Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

Rosebell’s Blog
Africaphonie
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Tim Hartman
Jeremy Weate

Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

Kanmi Iyanda
Africans in Minnesota
George Ngwane
House of Chiefs

Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

Halftribe
Eyeing Africa
Where ever I lay my hat
Alex Henderson
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Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

Kenyan Poet
What An African Woman Thinks
Omoluwabi Okebadan
Sierra Eye
Naija Pikin

Dibussi Tande reviews the following blogs:

David Ajao
Muigwithania 2.0
Constitutionally Speaking
Reinventing Africa
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