Grandiose Parlor asks, “Is the Nigerian Blogosphere Dying?,”: “Obifromsouthlondon, the Nigerian blogger (UK) at Soul on Ice, leads the pack of Bloggers that did a sudden somersault and “closed shop” to the surprise of their readers. It’s almost a year since Obi has “gone fishing” and moved on to a life away from the blogosphere.
It did end there, some days ago another UK-based Nigerian blogger- Nkem at African Shirts, followed suit.
Today I read on Sokari’s Black Looks statements that strongly suggest she too has had enough.”
Read an interview at Black Looks with Nigerian digital artist, Kenneth Shofela Coker.
Erik discusses Obama's new media strategies for his trip to Ghana: We’re launching an SMS platform to allow citizens to submit questions, comments and words of welcome (in English and in French) . Using a local SMS short code in Ghana (1731) , Nigeria (32969) , South Africa (31958) and Kenya (5683), as well as a long code across the rest of the world*
Kenyan Poet, singer and actor Grand Master Masese fears for his life after a series of bizarre phone incidences in the past week.
On Friday night, he received an SMS threatening his life. It read: “Umekua ukijifanya mjanja but mwisho wako umefika” (You think you are clever but your end is here).”
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Far from it the Nigerian blogosphere is just waking up. I see a few up and coming blogs that will more than compensate for the departed.