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This is the posse that makes the magazine come out every week, whether you need it or not. But we do it with a lot of help from our friends around the world.
BRAD BALFOUR
MEDIA EDITOR
Brad has been covering arts, pop culture, and cutting-edge media for over 25 years and avoiding a normal job as much as possible. Now he is editor in chief of timessquare.com, senior editor of Film Festival Today, plus covering actors and directors for the daily am new york, and the L Magazine as well as a frequent contributor to popentertainme
nt.com, blackfilm.com, and brink.com. He threatens to make his own films as well and has programmed both screenings and panel discussions on cinema. Previously, he started his own magazine (New Review of Records), and consultancy have appeared in such print and online publications as Omni, E-Radio, CDNow, Metal Hurlant, Spin, Vibe, FutureLife, Takarajima, Look (BMBmedia) and has been a top editor at publications such as Creem, Reflex, In Fashion, Heavy Metal and Irish Connections; his writingsand Seventeen Magazine. He covcers the film beat for the World's Magazine and lives in New York City.
MATTIE LENNON
G21 Humorist & Irish Balladeer
He was born in the middle of the last century at Kylebeg, Lacken, Blessington, Co Wicklow. And as James Joyce said about Dublin "I never left" even though he has spent the last 30 years in Dublin.
Songwriting started when he was 14 or 15. "If anyone blamed me for anything in the wrong I would 'make a song about them'. There weren't many false accusations so I wasn't very prolific.
"Nowadays I write the occasional humorous magazine article and I compile and present my own radio show (I have been on national radio a few times also).
"I participated in this years Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York, as part of a group from Dublin Bus where I am employed as a supervisor. On March 18th, 2001, I co-presented Ceol na nGael on WFUV 90.7 radio in the Bronx." 
Is the host of "Mattie Lennon's Ballad Hour" on Radio Dublin 100FM every Sunday morning at 7:45 a.m. If anyone wants a request played for a loved one in Dublin or the surrounding counties just email him at the station mattielennon@hotmail.com.
MORAA GITAA
G21 Africa Staff Writer
MORAA writes about women issues, international concerns and the economic perspective from her native Mombasa. A single mother and detail-oriented journalist, she brings a fresh perspective to many of the social Focus Issues that we have explored over the years. After doing special features for us, she is now dedicated to raising Western awareness of the situation "on the ground," one of our mandates.
MPHUTHUMI NTABENI
G21 Africa Staff Writer
He brings us the perspective of the shebeens and other haunts of South Africa. 
Mphuthumi ("Mpush") attended the school of Architecture in the University of Witswatersrand after High School, though he's not certain now what he was doing there. A misunderstanding occurred somewhere as he was looking for an education and all they could do was to train him. After that he left in a despairing mood for the city of Port Elizabeth where he re-invented himself. When he suspected there was nothing more to learn from the honking gulls of the sea, and he had paid off the government loan for his studies, he went back to his home, Queenstown. He now lives there under the nurturing care of his mother (no one else will have him) trying to make sense of the society he grew up in and exorcise the demons of growing under the apartheid regime. He's also waiting to grow up ad dreaming of being a member of that wretched tribe that earns its living by composing thoughts into words. Mr. Ntabeni was also a reporter for the Daily Dispatch, of South Africa.
RADIO RAHEEM
G21 Staff Writer
Raheem is a brother from the "flats" of east Oakland who regularly surfs the WWW and points our readership to websites which fit the mold of what G21 World Wide feels is the best of the Web. Raheem has returned as a Staff Writer, as well, contributing articles with an uncompromising African-American perspective.
STEVE OGAH
G21 AFRICA Staff Writer
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Tom is an alumnus, having written for the magazine from 1999 until 2004. He brings his popular and pop culty "dish" column TABLOID HART back to life for our tenth year on the Internet. Mr. Hart proudly promotes the fact that he lives in a trailer park near Austin, Texas, USA, and only gets his news from the National Enquirer.
ROD AMIS
G21 Editor & Publisher
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Rod claims that he lives entirely on the Internet. He was a weekly editorial writer for IT Manager's Journal and wrote the first 382 daily editorials . He wrote for two years at Andover News Network on Web Design and Development in his "Working the Web" column. He is listed among the ten IT columnist's worth reading by About.com. His views on "New Media" have appeared in MethodFive's (now acquired by Xceed.com) "Hyper" newsletter.
Earlier in his career, Rod worked for the Rocky Mountain News, Austin American-Statesman, and the West County (Contra Costa, CA) Times. He composed the FAQ for the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online BBS and was instrumental in its early beginnings. G21 was the in-house Internet publication for the Bay Guardian and Rod wrote on political topics there. He has had seven plays produced, published numerous articles, a couple of short stories, some poetry, and a smorgasbord of candid expression in G21 'My Glass House' and the pioneering Web site NRV8.
His latest column here is called "Smoke & Mirrors." We DON'T call it S&M.;
Rod has published G21 in its various forms (print, BBS e-zine, and now Web magazine) for over sixteen years. He is celebrating ten years of editing The World's Magazine on the Web. He was a contributing writer for ACCESS magazine. He was the US-based Technology Reporter for Silicon.com, a division of Network Multimedia Television based in London, UK, until May, 2001. Rod was visiting lecturer (via the 'Net, of course!) for the Novi Sad School of Journalism.
He lived, worked and played in New Orleans where he worked housing renovation jobs when he could find them. He was formerly Union Organizer for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN.) His assignment was to organize the Deputies of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Department, a thankless job. Once a socialist, always a socialist.
His "soul journey" (hejira) has most recently taken him to Austin, Texas. He is a regular columnist for Atlantic Free Press and the Huffington Post. He writes a weekly column on social media issues for Leverage Social Media. He on marketing and public relations industry trends for PR TACTICS magazine in print and online.
He is author of the new book Katrina & The Lost City of New Orleans available from Lulu.com and Amazon.com. At the end of 2005 he released one additional title under the generator21.net imprint, Africa Fresh: New Writing from the First Continent. He is back to fiction with a new Harry Trotter crime novel and still working on his oft-promised "My Glass House" book.
He chases women like a fly chases a spider. He keeps hoping to meet one like Erykah Badu ...