Maneno was a blogging application powered by PHP, Smarty, and MySQL with content management capabilities.

Initially released in October, 2008, it focused on creating a multi-theme, multi-author, multi-lingual system that works in a hosted setting [1].

The core of the system was envisioned after a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2008 by two of the founders.

Maneno was available in Bambara, English, Spanish, French, Fula, Swahili, Lingala, Portuguese, and Zulu.

Members were: Rebecca Wanjiku [6], Elia Varela Serra, Saul Wainright, and Miquel Hudin.