Great post giving back gound to “WHAT ABOUT US?” online event 

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Nigerian youth ask: What about us?

I owe a lot to Nigeria. Throughout 2002 I lived in Calabar where I helped run a primate sanctuary. I made many friends and gained a real understanding of many of the problems facing the country. Five years later, in 2007, a loose coalition of Nigerian NGOs took our FrontlineSMS platform and monitored their elections with it, a breakthrough moment for us and for them.

continued at http://www.kiwanja.net/blog/2011/03/nigerian-youth-ask-what-about-us/

continuesd at http://www.kiwanja.net/blog/2011/03/nigerian-youth-ask-what-about-us/