Sympathizing with Gaza

The participants are now eagerly posting pictures to their blogs, both photos taken in class and any others picked from the web.

You will also find postings on yesterday’s (and in many cases this morning’s) assignment. The participants were this time given a little more complex search exercises, six different topics to choose from, and a short posting was supposed to be produced based on the facts found via the internet.

Bilham Kimati, Nipashe newspaper, is writing an almost militant commentary about the international boycott campaign against products of the Nestlé company. It has to do with mothers being tricked to quit breastfeeding too early because of aggressive marketing policies of the companies trading the so called baby milk substitutes.

Jiang Alipo, again, has produced a good and balanced story on the mysterious collapse of the World Trade Center Building 7, the third tower in New York to come down on 9/11, even though it was not hit by any plane and it was situated more than a hundred metres away from the two Twin Towers, WTC-1 and WTC-2.

Other good postings were done on the Egyptian football player Mohamed Aboutrika, widely expected to be awarded next week as the African footballer of the year. See the story by Phillip Bugobora, Radio Passion FM, with good links to original sources and also a picture of goal-scorer Aboutrika taking off his national team’s jersey at an African Nations Cup match to reveal a T-shirt below with the text: “Sympathize with Gaza.” You can also go to Basil Msongo’s, Noor Shija’s and Keregero Keregero’s postings on the subject.

Many others chose to write about the childhood years of Barack Obama, with photos posted too, but unfortunately these stories were mostly copied directly from the Wikipedia.