It is hard to imagine a place more difficult to keep a blog than a country that just barely has an electric grid. But a few ambitious, aspiring Liberian journalists are working hard to join their colleagues from the DR of Congo, Uganda, Zambia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria on the frontiers of African new media. We discussed recently on the Rising Voices mailing list that not every participant of a new media training program can be expected to continue blogging forever. In the same way that not every piano student can be expected to become a musician, not everyone is a natural blogger. The following six Liberian journalists, however, most definitely are.

Emmanuel Tobey (AKA “Tango”) is a photojournalist working for the United Nations Mission in Liberia. In the following video Tobey explains how he was introduced to photojournalism during the Liberian civil war.

Nat Bayjay was perhaps the most motivated of all the participants of the new media workshops last week in Liberia. On Nat’s personal blog he has already published two very informative posts: “