The Genesis...

Now its almost getting to the end of the 1st quarter of 2009 and as usual nothing really good is being projected about the land of my descent. There's still as always the famines, ethnic wars/cleansing/hunger/poverty being peddled about my the western media. Not denying that this is, but some times it gets sickening to listen to or watch when you know it could be better, is better in some circumstances and could be projected in a more endearing light. If I may take a pun from a speech from one of my all-time-great Rom-Coms: Love Actually, "we may be an impoverished continent, but a great one too...the land of Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nelson Mandela, Fela Kuti...Emmanuel Adebayor's Left leg...Emmanuel Adebayor's right leg...". Africa beyond doubt is great and in my opinion it is left to us it's seed to portray it in a more deserving light. We're not perfect, we know our weaknesses, we can be better.

It is in the light of this background that the iBuntu project was set up to explore ways of projecting images that celebrates, dignify and exhorts us Africans in diaspora as well as in the continent.