Comments on: Where are the African Blogs?

By: Yaye

Yaye — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:05 +0000

COS WE AFRICAN WOMEN ARE DOIN IT AND DOIN IT WELL
http://www.yayemarieba.blogspot.com
It’s true tha there is a lack of visibility …but we are here , i’ve read blogs of nigerians, kenyans, marocans, tunisians, south afrikans, benenise, gabonese..u name it
We just have to believe that we want to hear our own voices and have the rest of the world hear our blogging drums
yaye

By: BeyondWhatWe See

BeyondWhatWe See — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:30:11 +0000

I am an African leaving in the US, I just started this blog (http://beyondwhatwesee.blogspot.com/) to add a positive voice to the way Africa and Black people in general are portrayed.

So I welcome any post.

By: BodyinMotion

BodyinMotion — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:27:21 +0000

Thanks for pointing out this huge gap. Africa-bloggers deserve publicity for speaking out about a part of the world the rest of the world ignores!

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By: HASH

HASH — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:52:17 +0000

@M – Interesting tangent. Can you expand more on your thoughts of the dubious value of the different blog conferences and how direct promotion could be done better?

Kind of opens up a whole new discussion actually – which is greatly needed. I see value in face-to-face meetings of bloggers, but agree that their promotional value for Africa is usually limited. They are more useful for the people that they are there to network.

What ways do you think we could better promote each other? The biggest way that I can show my appreciation for someone is to write a piece and refer to another African blogger, thereby openly giving my “vote” to them. It’s much stronger than showing up in my blogroll (that I need to reinstate at some time…).

Anyway, would like to read more of your thoughts on this at some time.

By: M

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:18:00 +0000

An unfortunate state of affairs indeed. Perhaps the problem is one of action. Clearly the innumerable conferences on blogs and blogging are increasingly appearing to be of dubious value in promoting African and afro-centric blogs. We need to change tact. Perhaps directly promote each other (and not blogrolls. They clearly have limited impact)

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By: SA Blogger

SA Blogger — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:25:44 +0000

Hopefully this new site will help to spread word about South African news & blogs??
http://sablogger.co.za

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