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South Africa: where are black bloggers?

Sunday, April 1st, 2007 @ 07:36 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: South Africa
Topics:: Media, Technology

Khanya asks, where are the black South African bloggers?: Look at South African blog aggregator sites like Amatomu, and the vast majority of the bloggers there are white. And this in spite of the fact that it is run by the Mail & Guardian newspaper, which has several black journalists. So if there are black bloggers out there, why aren’t they showing up on Amatomu?

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