Nat Bayjay is the Project Manager of Ceasefire Liberia:
Ceasefire Liberia is a multimedia project to put Liberian Diaspora in touch with what is happening at home. Liberia is recovering from 14 years of Civil War. Ceasefire is trying to bridge the gap between Liberians across the world and those who are still at home.
from Muhammad Karim - GV Citizen Media Summit
It is a Rising Voices initiative of Global Voices:
Ceasefire Liberia ... aims to document the Liberian experience on both sides of the ocean. It includes a book, documentary film work, and now a blog. The goal of the blog is to connect the Liberian community in Liberia with the rest of the Diaspora in order to create a dialogue between those who fled during the war and those who remained.
About Ceasefire Liberia
I managed to capture Nat's presentation to the recent GV Citizen Media Summit in Santiago, Chile. It was an inspiring moment. In Nat's words, it's "beyond the ordinary"!
Ceasefire Liberia: Rising African Voices from Kevin Rennie on Vimeo.
One of their challenges is to recruit more female Liberian bloggers. Nat Bayjay can be contacted at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
If you are not familiar with the amazing world of Global Voices, please visit us. GV has 'more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media'. It's a very special feeling when your posts are translated into other languages including Bangla and Swahili.
At last count four Global Voices authors are Th!nk3: Developing World competitors: Andrea Arzaba (Mexican), Sylwia Presley (Polish), Marianne Diaz (Venezuelan) and myself.
Liberia is an interesting country to look at. Recently saw a documentary about it.
Global Voices is awesome
I agree with Daniel!
Huffington Post has a related article by Global Voices’s Ruth Ackerman: To Publish or Not to Publish that touches on both Ceasefire Liberia and the issues raised in Andrea Arzaba’s post about ethics and photojournalism.
This is great! Thank you so much for capturing this presentation and sharing it on your blog. I’d be grateful if you (or perhaps someone from Ceasefire Liberia) would crosspost it to Kabissa, where I am eager to help spread the word about the initiative in Liberia (and hopefully help them get more bloggers male and female) as well as encourage more citizen journalism throughout in Africa.
I’ve already blogged about Ceasefire Liberia on Kabissa: http://www.kabissa.org/node/4115
Cheers,
Tobias
Tobias
I’m happy for you to crosspost to Kabissa with the usual acknowledgments and links. To do this myself I’d need access to your website/blog.
Hi Kevin-
Thanks for the quick reply.
You can join Kabissa at http://kabissa.org/user/register and join the Connect group at signup. Then add your post to the Connect group at http://kabissa.org/group/connect
Thanks! I really appreciate it.
-T
Ceasefire Liberia is one year old. The good news is at Ceasefire Liberia in the News.
It includes a link to a German language story by Jan Hendrik Becker The [url=http://www.Weltverbesserer]http://www.Weltverbesserer[/url] Use google translate if your German’s no better than mine. Well worth a read.
More Than Me on giving the gift of education through GlobalGiving brings another good news story from Liberia. More Than Me has just won ‘the Grand Prize and Africa region winner of GlobalGiving’s first Facebook photo contest’. Please click on the link to read more about this foundation that is helping girls to get an education in Liberia.