The writer Ryszard Kapuscinski once remarked that “Africa is silently dying because nobody is listening to its voice.” The good people at the Italian site Afronline does not believe that should be the case and started a site where they serve as a clearing house for information from a host of Africa-specific news sites–like A24MediaAfrica The Good News and Pambazuka News, among others–and blogs like yours truly.

Yes, good things about Africa come out of Italy.

Go check out the site.

* Oh, the illustration has nothing to do with it. It’s from photographer Sebastian Salgado’s latest book, “Africa.”

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