We are looking for copy writers, free lance journalists and writers to help in providing SEO and key word rich content to a new general interest e-magazine.

The website, myweku.com, is new and is currently under development. The website is due to go online in September/October 2009.

Myweku.com will have as its core readership Africans around the world and will be modelled on ivillage.co.uk, ebony.com and oprah.com.

Statement of Vision of website: To provide Africans in the diaspora and non-Africans with a one stop shop that will inform and showcase African products and services across a whole range of areas. These areas will include music, business, etc.

Online Presence: The model to be used is an advertisement and information based model that will provide users with readily available information. There will be a strong focus on the “community” or forum as we aim to make this as interactive and interesting as possible. In the medium to long term we hope that we will be able to commercialise the site by creating a strong focus on selling products.

Description of the type of online presence being proposed:
information dissemination, entertainment, awareness, promotion, access to services and products

Who the target audience
 Upwardly mobile educated
 Young (18-40) Africans and non-Africans
 Geographically extensive to include the UK, North America and Africa
 Men and women
 Those into entertainment, art, books etc

The content channels will include:

 Art
o Visual art
o Performance art
o Exhibitions and events

 Entertainment
o Music
o Film
o Events/festival
o Sports

 Life and style
o Food
o Restaurant and bars
o Places
o Beauty and fashion
o Book club
o Health and wellbeing

 Ethical Society
o Social enterprise
o Being Green
o Appeals

 Business
o Money
o Debt
o Careers
o Entrepreneurs

 Community (Blogs, Discussion Boards, Polls etc)

Writing
Myweku.com aims to become the number one magazine type portal for all things African. This includes:
 African art
 African books
 African business
 African music
 African food, recipes etc

Requirements
 Writers who can demonstrate excellent knowledge in the listed areas and who can write interesting features and articles using the relevant keywords.
 We are looking for feature ideas and articles that will appeal to our target audience. Our priority is to populate the site with at least three feature articles per content category i.e. 60 in total) before going live in September/October.
 Features with images i.e. photographs and pictures will be greatly appreciated
 On average 400/500 hundred plus words
 We expect variety in the types of articles:
 Personal sketches or profiles
 Personal experiences
 How To’s
 Confession
 Narrative
 Utility
 Interview
 Reviews – books, music
 Featurette etc

Even though our budget is limited we are hoping to build long term partnerships with writers whose work fits in with the style and ethos of our website and who are able to deliver the sort of quality features that will make the website popular.

In future we will be looking for emerging free lance journalists or student journalists to interview subjects we choose or ones they choose that fit into the concept of our project.

Please feel free to pass this on to others who may be interested.

Regards
Nii Thompson
niithompson@yahoo.co.uk

My name is Dineo Tsoeu, born Dineo Moloi, sorry i might be late because this was in 2008, and i am also messing with your blog.

I am looking for my of whom i dont know, apperantly he is from Lesotho, his name is Taimane Mokoena, i would really loved to meet him, if i only knew where in Lesotho is he from that could have being better, but from what i hear he was a taxi driver, transporting people from South Africa to Lesotho, that where he meet with My mother Selina Moloi.

I don’t know any, unfortunately. But I’ll pass your question along to my home people.

It would also be wonderful to use some of your poetry – would you mind and if not could you please let me know which poem you think would be best?

Sure you can use my poetry, as long as it’s acknowledged properly and you inform me of where and how you’re using it. Tell me exactly how you want to use poetry and I might be able to help you choose.

While talking with the uni students at Roma we discovered that one of their main concerns about Lesotho is corruption (I’m assuming they mean within the political system etc, but I’m not sure as we didn’t get a huge amount of time to go into things) and also women’s rights, particularly the right to work. Could you shed any light on these topics?

I think there is indeed corruption in Lesotho, as there is in many other countries, especially if they’re developing. But it exists everywhere, in America it does, in France it does, in Swaziland it does. But in richer countries it is much less visible because people aren’t hungry. So, yes, there is political corruption in Lesotho, as well as other forms of corruption.

We will have to refer the question about women’s rights to my home people as well. As far as I know, civil law places man and woman on an equal footing, while traditional law doesn’t. In what way? In traditional law, he decides, she doesn’t. And this covers a lot of aspects of life. How does this interact with civil law? That’s where you’ll need to ask someone else.

You can ask here: sotho@googlegroups.com

Visit here: http://groups.google.com/group/sotho

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I’m a gabonese student. I’m studying sotho history and geography in Paris (France) and I’m looking for sotho people to improve my sesotho. I hope you can help me. I want to speak sesotho like a real sotho girl in six months ’cause I’ll go to Lesotho in July for my research. I was in Lesotho last year and I’ve really fallen in love with this country and these friendly people. I’m looking for your answer.

Kea leboha,

Wendy