NetActive 26 June 2011

HotSecretz posts FINAL FOUR PAGEANT HOPEFULS PICKED FOR MISS WORLD KENYA ::: The headhunt for Miss Nestea Kenya ended last Saturday with the crowning of four contestants from across the country in Nairobi’s Kawangware.

Kate shares a link to a Louis Vuitton Mens Resort 2012 inspired by the Maasai.

While New Yorkers celebrate the passage of Marriage Equality, Fresh attacks on gays in Ghana: Delivering a statement on the 30 years of the official discovery of HIV/AIDS on the floor of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, Ghana’s Second Deputy Speaker, described homosexuality as an “abomination” that must be stopped “before the human race was destroyed by something worse than AIDS”.

Learn about LGBTI rights in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi from a paper written by Naome Ruzindana. Naome is a feminist and founding member of the Coalition of African Lesbians.

Maker Faire Africa 2011 is here: “Maker Faire Africa is pleased to announce our 3rd event, ‘Maker Faire Africa 2011 : Cairo‘ which will take place in Egypt, October 6-8th, 2011. Join us once again as we continue to cultivate new and existing maker communities across Africa.”

Moving to ASIA ::: Trica Wang blogs about her experience of riding the Beijing subway disguised as a migrant worker while conducting fieldwork.

Here in North America, some Hip-Hop blogs are in a quandry... Advertising firm GroupM revealed a few weeks ago that it had adopted a new anti-piracy policy. It constructed a list of websites that it deemed to be either in support of piracy, or directly offering illegal downloads. The list of sites eventually got into the hands of the media and there are some bizarre listings on it.