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South Africa: Where are black bloggers hiding?

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 @ 14:15 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: South Africa
Topics:: Ethnicity, Media, Technology

Inside Candy wonders where South African black bloggers are: “I realise that this is a potentially loaded question, but where the hell are all the black bloggers hiding? To date, I’ve only met one (I repeat, one) black South African blogger - Obakeng, “The Chief” of ONC Today.”

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Candy Tothill

Thanks for the mention… and for hearing one small voice in the wilderness.

# 2008-02-26 at 15:09 pm

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Mwangi - the Displaced African

Until I read this I hadn’t thought about it, but every South African website I have ever visited is owned by a Caucasian. The only time I have seen a black South African online is one video I saw recently on Youtube…….hmmm…..

# 2008-02-27 at 14:11 pm

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[...] pondering the very same thing. Ndesanjo Macha, the regional editor for Sub-saharan Africa at Global Voices Online bestowed some link-love upon me by using an extract from my post, while South African freelance [...]

# 2008-02-29 at 15:59 pm
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[...] pondering the very same thing. Ndesanjo Macha, the regional editor for Sub-saharan Africa at Global Voices Online bestowed some link-love upon me by using an extract from my post, while South African freelance [...]

# 2009-04-13 at 11:31 am

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