Africa’s Web 2.0 Sites (with links)

by HASH on November 21, 2007

I was challenged by Riyaz and Sokari to come up with a list of “Web 2.0″ sites for Africa and make a collage. I chose to define that term rather loosely, so if the line is blurred it’s entirely my fault.

I’m sure I missed some, so leave a comment with the link if I did. I’ll add it in the next iteration.

You can see the larger sizes of this image on Flickr, where each logo has the link to the webite.

The “To Be Added” list:

MyVideo
TWAC
iJol
MyGenius
Helule
Blog247
YesNoMayB
employmint
ZoopedUp
Digspot
Vrinne
Student Village
LitNet
MobiMii
Wibble
Startpage
Share Surf
Blogs 24
Bongo5
Blog TZ

{ 67 comments… read them below or add one }

1 rafiq 11.21.07 at 11:46 am

What about bob?

2 JohnofScribblesheet 11.21.07 at 12:10 pm

Where is Afrigadget?

3 ScribbleSheet Blog 11.21.07 at 12:30 pm

[...] Did you know Africa has numerous Web 2.0 sites? Well here is a fairly good [...]

4 Nic 11.21.07 at 1:21 pm

Great looking list but what about myvideo and twac?

5 HASH 11.21.07 at 1:48 pm

@ Rafiq – bob?

@ John – AfriGadget is a blog, so I’m not sure it fits anymore than I would characterize BoingBoing as a Web 2.0 site in the US.

@ Nic – I should be ashamed of myself for missing those two. They will be in the next iteration.

6 Piervincenzo 11.21.07 at 2:07 pm

This is such a great news: in Africa there are web 2.0 websites. It would be interesting to know what do they do, how they get by, what revenue they’ve got. But I think that even if they’ve get no money it would still be such a great experience to have very modern websites. Maybe even useful for african development. Congratulations for the list and to all the people who made those websites

7 Tzaadi 11.21.07 at 2:25 pm

Great post, great list. I am interested in finding out more about these sites, what countries they’re from, what they do and revenue models.

8 riyaz 11.21.07 at 2:57 pm

classic. as always from you :)

9 Jamaaludeen Khan 11.21.07 at 4:14 pm

Some of these I didn’t know about. Well done!!

10 Tyler 11.21.07 at 5:22 pm

Ananzi web 2.0? HAHAHA, Erik, nice one! :)

I think iBlog needs to be there. You’re going to have to update that soon. ;)

11 Tyler 11.21.07 at 5:23 pm

My bad, I missed iBlog, it was so tiny I missed it.

12 Justin Hartman 11.21.07 at 5:38 pm

Gonna repost the same comment I left on the Flickr image so forgive me :)

I noticed this image is copyright on Flickr. Does this mean we can’t use it in presentations etc?

13 HASH 11.21.07 at 5:59 pm

@ Tyler – Yes, iBlog ended up being smaller. If anyone wants to send me their real logo minus the background, I’ll be happy to update the collage with it in the next iteration. Oh, and I know – Ananzi was sketchy… :)

@ Justin – I’ll fix that copyright thing on Flickr. Anything I do on this blog is free to use for anything/everything you want.

14 Charl van Niekerk 11.21.07 at 6:00 pm

Great list! I see Yeigo is on there but not Fring though, or are my eyes just missing it (I’m better with text than images hahaha).

15 Justin Hartman 11.21.07 at 6:03 pm

Excellent Hash, thanks man. Really looking forward to integrating this within my next presentation – with full credits to you ofcourse!

16 sokari 11.21.07 at 6:12 pm

Excellent!

17 HASH 11.21.07 at 6:13 pm

@ Charl – Yes, Yeigo is in there, but I missed another one… Fring. It’ll go into my updated iteration of this (adding it to the site now).

@ Justin – Glad you like it!

18 Charl 11.21.07 at 7:05 pm

You can throw iJol.co.za and MyGenius.co.za into the mix

19 HASH 11.21.07 at 10:18 pm

@ Charl – good call on iJol, I like that app a lot and can’t believe that I forgot it. Actually, I’m kind of embarrassed for having missed so many…

20 Africa’s Web 2.0 Sites « Durbzblogz’s Weblog 11.22.07 at 12:19 am

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21 bankelele 11.22.07 at 1:45 am

helule

22 Black Looks 11.22.07 at 2:04 am

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23 Crowhoney.Com » Africa’s Web 2.0 Sites (with links) 11.22.07 at 2:25 am

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24 Yasser 11.22.07 at 3:02 am

may be Ubuntu’s site should also be there,
although with an international appeal,
it’s an AFRICAN flavored Linux Distro
:-)
that’s just what i think…

25 Justin Hartman 11.22.07 at 3:30 am

While Ubuntu is an amazing initiative it’s not part of the web 2.0 relm as I see it.

Hash, you should also add blog247.co.za

26 Foxinni 11.22.07 at 3:44 am

Some titles i agree with, some more than others and some not at all. Don’t like 2.0 and never will… total buzz word.

27   African Web 2.0 map by Justin Hartman 11.22.07 at 3:48 am

[...] when I post a new blog entry. Thanks for visiting!Hash (aka Erik Hersman) has done an amazing map of Web 2.0 sites through Africa. Lots of people have commented and seen it already however it really is worth a [...]

28 Yasser 11.22.07 at 4:07 am

i mean’t the ubuntu WEBSITE actually,
not the UBUNTU ,
my bad, lol
:-)

29 JBagley 11.22.07 at 5:08 am

Awesome!

What where u thinking putting Ananzi there!? lol!

30 Stii 11.22.07 at 5:33 am

Great job Hash! I have to echo the Ananzi inclusion… WHY? I think what you wanted to include as maybe Startpage (www.startpage.co.za) by Ananzi, but definitely not ananzi.co.za.

31 Stii 11.22.07 at 5:37 am

Oh, and mayb yesnomayb.co.za should also be in there?

32 Stii 11.22.07 at 5:43 am

Sorry Hash, I’m flooding you now, but I think http://www.employmint.co.za/ deserves to be there!

33 Charl 11.22.07 at 5:51 am

@Hash – check out my original list here.. its a little dated now but serves as a good reference

http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2007/09/14/south-africas-web-startups-to-watch/

34 Ababoy 11.22.07 at 8:54 am

HASH – Excellent. Got to hear of this from Sokari’s post. This is my first comment on your blog, but make no mistake, I devotedly visit this space. And honestly, I think you are the top man…

35 Bully 11.22.07 at 9:38 am

Ananzi web 2.00?
Thats a joke right?

36 HASH 11.22.07 at 11:24 am

Okay, I realize now what an egregious error I made by including Ananzi – say no more, it will be removed! :)

@ Stii – Thanks for the good additions.

@ Charl – Great link, I found about couple more sites to add.

37 capdog 11.23.07 at 2:11 am

Why not include Share Surf? Made in SA, this site is Web 2.0 at it’s best – people send in pictures of the waves and surf conditions from their cellphone cameras, and anyone can log in and check the latest conditions! We get all our reporting from the community – check out :

http://www.sharesurf.info

Click “South Africa” from the drop down list, and click search to get the pics!

38 Elan 11.23.07 at 5:31 am

Please add http://blogs.24.com which has about 8 000 registered blogs.

thanks.

Elan.

39 Elan 11.23.07 at 5:33 am

Please add MyNews24 – it is a citizen journalism site currently part of News24 where we only publish articles and pics from readers. It has about 80 000 monthly unique users at this point.

40 Charl 11.23.07 at 5:52 am

Shameless plug

http://www.zoopedup.com

41 South African Web 2.0 Sites.. 11.23.07 at 6:55 am

[...] from WhiteAfrican has just released a fantastic collage of South African web startups – there’s not too much to [...]

42 Charl van Niekerk 11.23.07 at 9:15 am

Sorry, my bad! Fring is based in Israel – made incorrect assumptions there based on their popularity in South Africa. Thanks to IrcMaidon and Tyler Reed for setting me straight on Twitter.

43 HASH 11.23.07 at 10:41 am

Okay, I’ve removed Fring. Zoopedup is on the “to be added” list, as is about 20 others.

I’ll begin to update the collage this weekend, so get your last suggestions in ASAP.

44 Web 2.0 Africano » Italia SW 11.23.07 at 12:20 pm

[...] Questo è solo un’estratto, chi fosse interessato ad approfondire l’argomento è invitato a cliccare sopra i loghi per accedere ai vari siti [Fonte: BlackLooks]. [...]

45 bill 11.26.07 at 3:06 am

i am surprised by the links. all these are beyond my imagination.

46 feelme 11.28.07 at 4:41 am

We need to have more Kenyan Web 2.0 websites developed. I don’t know why, but it seems (to me) like zoopedup.co.za still has some “Web 1.0″ tinge – could be their tiny text. It’s a nice one though – I like their choice of colour and logo/banner too. Maybe we should have a site where we rate sites, so I could give it a 3/5, and sharesurf would get 2/5.

This, of course, is open to debate :-)

47 feelme 11.28.07 at 4:51 am

Jahazi doesn’t look Web 2.0 to me either, nor does allwoman.co.ke (some of it’s images are missing).

48 Munashe 11.29.07 at 4:38 am

There is one which is hot in kenya,

mybrown.ning.com

49 Munashe 11.29.07 at 4:38 am

There is one which is hot in kenya,

http://mybrown.ning.com/

50 Munashe Gumbonzvanda 11.29.07 at 4:55 am

Ok you guys forgot Afrigator.co.za, and muti maybe aadvark they are from south but hot

51 Mr Hash « TLC Web Studio 11.29.07 at 6:12 am

[...] The blog itself here  [...]

52 Crystal 11.29.07 at 7:35 pm

So here is a website in progress to introduce web 2.0 to the village and cybers as an easy to use platform. http://www.voicesofafrica.org. We are in need of more techies to help. I am one of the directors and I have a degree in sustainable economic development with a master’s in public health and the other is a farmer/ agriculture student at Moi. We are in need of folks with tech skills to bring the best of the web into our telecentres which will be located in rural villages using solar power. Our focus is on rural sustainable development and income generation. And of course, I love to teach about health. There are so many resources online. It is like opening the people up to the biggest library in the world.

Well, I am highly impressed by the site and the work you are doing. I would like to see if possibily I could get in contact with some members for support, help with web design and general guidance. I feel like our groups have two pieces of the same puzzle.

Asante sana.

crystal

53 Piervincenzo Canale 11.30.07 at 4:40 am

Hello Crystal I am a freelance journalist based in Italy. I am very much interested about the telecentres based in villages using solar power. May I interview you. I’d like to pitch this story to some newspapers and magazines in Europe and elsewhere.
If you want to contact me my email is piervi@piervi.com or my MSN is piervincenzo1@hotmail.com or my Skype piervi.com

54 feelme 11.30.07 at 6:24 am
55 Munashe Gumbonzvanda 11.30.07 at 10:40 am

Hi Crystal loved your comment. hope it works out
Found some non South African startups you left out. Not top quality but worth a look.

jujunation
Afriville
Afrovibe is like zimvibe

56 Quick Hits Around Africa | White African 12.02.07 at 12:03 pm

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57 John 12.02.07 at 3:08 pm

Please add http://www.memeza.com to this list. You blogged about them earlier as being a Zambian digg clone. Representing Zambia :)

58 20mai.net » Blog Archive » Une cartographie de l’univers web2.0 en Afrique 12.28.07 at 10:53 am

[...] par un bloggeur, sa liste n’est pas exhaustive bien-sûr. C’est juste un inventaire du web2.0 en Afrique fait par (l’africain blanc) sur son blog; il n’y garde que les sites à peu près [...]

59 feelme 01.11.08 at 9:04 am

http://www.studiosaba.co.ke has been revamped. Check it out.

60 Periodismo Ciudadano 01.27.08 at 1:51 am

[...] (en especial la telefonía móvil), y que, en paralelo a los blogs, ha visto la aparición de redes sociales y otros servicios de la Web 2.0. Otra característica distintiva de parte de la blogosfera africana viene dada por la situación [...]

61 Nino 01.31.08 at 7:12 am

Here is Cameroon’s 2.0 websites ;-)

Click here or copy and paste the link below

http://www.20mai.net/2008/01/30/voici-a-quoi-ressemble-le-web20-du-cameroun/

62 Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Africa’s Web 2.0 Entry 03.28.08 at 3:41 am

[...] entry into the Web 2.0 market started about 18 months ago. A rough estimate puts the number of Web 2.0 tools and applications at between 60 and 70. South Africa dominates Web 2.0 with a plethora of online [...]

63 Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Global or Local?::Africa’s Social Media Conundrum 03.29.08 at 1:23 am

[...] entry into the Web 2.0 market started about 18 months ago. A rough estimate puts the number of Web 2.0 tools and applications at between 60 and 70. South Africa dominates Web 2.0 with a plethora of online [...]

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65 fee 05.15.08 at 3:35 am

Hmm, what of new comers like Kerawa.com, http://www.kerawa.com.
We wish to serve free classified ads in the whole Africa.

66 Joerg 06.27.08 at 6:52 am

Hi, please add an online invoicing service for freelancers called Fluttervoice http://www.fluttervoice.co.za

It’s a handsome logo.

Thanks

67 Kunal Chokshi 04.20.09 at 7:28 am

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