In the midst of The Globe and Mail‘s recent series of articles on the prospects of African development, I came across a feature on abortion laws by African nation. Only four nations (Cape Verde, Reunion, South Africa and Tunisia) unconditionally allow abortion. Offhand and generally speaking, these nations are further …

A chart listing the  most frequently mentioned nations on this site shows:

South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya have many newsworthy stories
Regionally, East Africa produces the most news articles and ICT updates/opinions
oAfrica.com does not focus on North Africa (for a variety of reasons)
An absence of Central African nations – none of these …

A recent study of Ghana’s overall culture, including Internet adoption and practices, provides some interesting insights into communications trends and how citizens use mobile phones and the Internet. Balancing Act Africa recently summarized some of the more interesting results:

mobile users still prefer voice calls over SMS – those who understood …

Gathering accurate and reliable Internet usage statistics has never been easy. Furthermore, the data we can obtain must be carefully examined before assumptions can be formed.
Despite limited Internet bandwidth, file-sharing websites appear relatively popular in Sub-Saharan countries. Or so it seems according to web traffic tracker Alexa. Based on lists …

By the end of the year 2000, every African nation could boast an active Internet connection. However, this statistic sounds more meaningful that it actually was. Most connections were unstable, slow, and limited to capital cities and the elite classes. Ten years later, Africa is much more connected, but the …

The Internet is a dangerous place, but Africa may be safer than once though. Although McAfee may call Cameroon the nation with the riskiest domain (with a 36.7% risk ratio), the statistics are somewhat unclear and misleading. The report may be unbiased, but readers could easily make false assumptions about …