Tag Archives: re-branding

Bloggers and Rebranders Respond to District 9

Nneoma, of Pyoo Wata, reviews the reac­tions of Niger­ian blog­gers to the recent sci-fi fim, Dis­trict 9, and also cau­tions against the use of the rebrand­ing mantra for the pur­poses of cen­sor­ship. Ever since the Dora Akun­y­ili was charged with the task of clean­ing up the national image, the nation, includ­ing its blog­gers, has been …

September 22, 2009 – 12:44 am | By Nneoma Nwachuku | Posted in Culture and Society, Politics, World Affairs | Tagged , , | View Comments

Dear World, We choose to #lightupnigeria

Nneoma intro­duces the #ligh­tup­nige­ria move­ment and offers some sug­ges­tions for mov­ing for­ward. turenchi: Is Yaradua on Twit­ter? Will he see #ligh­tup­nige­ria if it trends? Admit­tedly, I am usu­ally the last per­son to latch onto a trend – peep-toe shoes, over­size hand­bags rem­i­nis­cent of those used to carry baby para­pher­na­lia, mobile microblog­ging, the dance craze that …

July 16, 2009 – 9:23 pm | By Nneoma Nwachuku | Posted in Culture and Society, Politics, Technology | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

EKITI ELECTIONS: A REVIEW

It appears the entire world paid close atten­tion to the recent Ekiti elec­tions. News out­lets from the BBC, to the Finan­cial Times and Reuters, to papers across the world reported on the elec­toral ten­sion and even­tual con­fu­sion and vio­lence which marred the process. While these news orga­ni­za­tions and many of their read­ers could observe these …

May 11, 2009 – 6:10 am | By solomonsydelle | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , | View Comments