KELELE, the African Bloggers conference

August 13-16th, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. Kelele is an annual African bloggers’ conference held in a different African city each year and run by an organising committee in that city.

Date : August 13-16th, 2009

Venue : Nairobi, Kenya

Organizer : Kelele organising committee

Kelele is the Kiswahili word for noise.

This gathering of African bloggers is organised in the tradition of historical African societies where everyone has a voice. With too many voices marginalised or simply ignored in Africa society today for a variety of reasons, the organizers believe that the internet in general and grassroots media tools such as blogs in particular represent the most powerful way in which to give Africans back their voice. They will be gathering to make a powerful, positive, inspirational noise that will be heard across the continent and beyond.

The theme of Kelele ’09 Nairobi is Beat Your Drum – we want to connect the traditional Africa method of getting your message across vast distances – the talking drums – to the 21st century and the tools we use today to get our message across, blogs and the Internet. We anticipate that this conference will continue to be called Kelele wherever it is held. For example Kelele Nairobi ’09, Kelele Accra ’10, Kelele Cairo ’11 and so on.

Here is a summary of the proposed programme :
Day 1 August 13 : Arrival in Nairobi and official opening
Day 2 August 14 : Conference Day
Day 3 August 15 : Skills/Training Day and Outreach Day. Official closing
Day 4 August 16 : Sight seeing / departure

Sister events The African Bloggers Awards, which aims to recognise the top blogger from each African country. The winner from each country will be invited and sponsored to attend Kelele ’09 Nairobi.

For more information, please visit the event’s website or contact :
General - main @ kelele.org
Daudi Were – daudi AT kelele.org
Erik Hersman - erik AT zungu dotcom
Ndesanjo Macha - ndesanjo AT gmail.com

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