Blogging for Africa

Kenya is the place in Africa where blogging first took off on the continent, and recently during the violence and uproar, it was the Kenyan bloggers who posted hour by hour reports after the mainstream media was shut down.

According to Sokari Ekine who is guest blogging on Mediashift: In just four years the African blogosphere has grown from a hundred or so Africans to over 1,000 presently registered on Afrigator alone and I believe this figure is way below the real number. Despite the launch of an African wide aggregator there remains a tendency for bloggers and readers to remain within their own national and thematic spaces. This is not just an African trend as most blogs operate within a circle of blogs and friends and enemies mingling amongst themselves. Two sites launched last year, African Path and African Loft, have tried to address this trend and encourage bloggers and readers to move into a more continental and international space..

Read this very interesting blogpost, titled:

 How Bloggers Covered Kenya Violence, Deal with Racism, Sexism