'baraza' is Swahili for forum/meeting place. It was very much Yahoo Answers, targeted at the African market - here in Kenya, most people only have internet access via mobile connections, often using feature phones, hence the minimalistic stylesheet.
Baraza never really took off.
More about it here: http://whiteafrican.com/2010/10/05/google-baraza-qa-for-afri...
http://www.google.com/baraza/en/help?file=inboundsms
They have an SMS companion service that only works in Ghana..
Amazingly, the questions seem to be even dumber than the ones found on YA:
- why is computer an idiot machine
- i casted a love spell on my ex,should i tell her now that she is back
- What is the colour of the black box which is using in planes ?
What a weird little product. It's like Yahoo Answers, but somehow with even less sorting or categorization.