Comments on: A Few African Community Sites

By: Akopo A Blogging Platform For French Speaking Africa « Web 2.0 « TechMasai

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:47:08 +0000

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By: shaaaks

shaaaks — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:09:40 +0000

My blog has been getting absolutely no hits from Africa. Is there an African blogging community or something?

By: afrostartups.com

afrostartups.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:10:57 +0000

olivier
the new and improved Afrikeo has been built. check it out now. This time around it has been built from scratch as such it will be easily scalable and will grow to become something like news.google.com for african news
keep checking

By: HASH

HASH — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:57:20 +0000

@Olivier – I’m not sure what happened with Afrikeo either. They might have taken it offline, it’s been a while since I wrote about them.

By: Olivier Amprimo

Olivier Amprimo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:31:38 +0000

I’ve just tried to access Afrikeo and it does not work.
Has it been shut down since your post?
Cheers.

By: K. Yakubu

K. Yakubu — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:48:56 +0000

It seems like our African brothers and sisters are doing the right thing in hopes to promote technology across the planet. Congratulations to all African website owners.

One site that caught my eyes last week was another African Social Community Site (www.plentyAfricans.com). This site is probably one of Africa’s best social site. It can be compared to myspace, facebook, hi5, and the alike. In fact, when I visited the site, one ofthe members’ profile page reads “I’m glad to be a part of this African Myspace”…. I’ll keep my eyes open to post new African sites to this blog periodly as I find them… Cheers to ALL AFRICANS.

By: Nino

Nino — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:00:02 +0000

Hey Hash,

Thx for the post about Akopo.
We have about 90 blogs now, but last week, we have deleted more than 300 blogs which were not active since 5 months.

Akopo is, like you say, based on Lifetype, an opensource blogging platform. The tool is well developped and developpers in Cameroon were able to easily add plugins we need (even in the backend).

For me, opensource constraints your roadmap only if you wait all from other people. For me, opensource is something you start with, and go further yourself.

Nino

By: Global Voices Online » Africa: community sites by Africans for Africans

Global Voices Online » Africa: community sites by Africans for Africans — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:14:32 +0000

[...] African lists community sites created by Africans for Africans: “Itâ€s good to see individuals trying new things for specific niches, and even though some [...]