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Blogging from Senegal
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Dakar, Senegal
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Looking for bloggers in #Senegal

Published on : 21 February 2012 - 11:40am | By Sophie van Leeuwen (Photo: AFP)
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They are all here with #kebetu and #sunu2012 cc @basileniane @sophievleeuwen

@DjPhaxxOfficial Ma waxoon? Waxeet! RT @sophievleeuwen: Looking for bloggers in Senegal.

Responses have been pouring in on my Twitter page immediately after I had “tweeted” calling for bloggers.

I was jumping for joy in the train back in the Netherlands. The mobile phone: what a wonderful invention!

Twitter connects me directly with young Senegalese activists in the capital, Dakar, 6000 kilometres away from my residence in Amsterdam!

With the presidential elections in Senegal just around the corner, a new generation is speaking out by any means. I cannot wait to meet with them, learn about their vision of their own future and that of their country.

@diopweb who lives for technology; @Ousmane Gueye who studies Political Science at Saint Louis; @Basile Niane, the president of the Bloggers Association in Senegal and all the others: SEE YOU SOON IN DAKAR...

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