Comments on: “Why I blog about Africa”

By: Belly of the Beast » On blogging about Africa

Belly of the Beast » On blogging about Africa — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:09:58 +0000

[...] about Africa through blogging. The other day I collected a few African bloggers’ opinions on why they blog about Africa, following a meme started by Cameroonian blogger Téophile Kouamouo. For me it’s simple: to [...]

By: SA bloggers are thriving in cyberspace. They just aren’t nearly diverse enough. : We Blog The World

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:36:55 +0000

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By: Media Channel 2.0 — Blog — New Citizen Media Projects Foster Rising Voices in Ivory Coast, Liberia, China, Mongolia, and Yemen

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:55:42 +0000

[...] I Blog About Africa.â€ (Elia Varela Serra summarized many of the resulting responses in a two-part series on Global Voices.) Kouamouo is now trying to bring many more of his countrymen and women to [...]

By: Global Voices teny Malagasy » Ny “New Citizen Media Projects Foster Rising Voices” tany Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sina, Mongolia, ary Yemen

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:59:01 +0000

[...] Africa -.” (Elia Varela Serra no mamintina ny sasantsasany amin'ireo valinteny ho anaty andian-dahatsoratra roa ao amin'ny Global Voices.) Ankehitriny i Kouamouo dia miezaka ny mampiditra ireo mpiray [...]

By: Global Voices dalam bahasa Indonesia » Projek Jurnalisme Warga Membantu Perkembangan GV Rising Voices di Pantai Gading, Liberia, Cina, Mongolia, dan Yemen

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:34:01 +0000

[...] dan memulai meme berjudul “Why I Blog About Africa.” (Elia Varela Serra meringkasnya kedalam dua seri untuk Global Voices.) Kouamouo kini berusaha untuk membukakan mata teman-teman sebangsanya, [...]

By: Global Voices Online » New Citizen Media Projects Foster Rising Voices in Ivory Coast, Liberia, China, Mongolia, and Yemen

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:46:51 +0000

[...] I Blog About Africa.” (Elia Varela Serra summarized many of the resulting responses in a two-part series on Global Voices.) Kouamouo is now trying to bring many more of his countrymen and women to [...]

By: Citizen media growing in third world countries « The Levisa Lazer

Citizen media growing in third world countries « The Levisa Lazer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:23:29 +0000

By: Rising Voices » New Citizen Media Projects Foster Rising Voices in Ivory Coast, Liberia, China, Mongolia, and Yemen

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:34:00 +0000

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Web meme two, why I blog about Africa

…My heart’s in Accra » Web meme two, why I blog about Africa — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:45:36 +0000

[...] blogs and now into the Anglophone Afrosphere. Elia Varela Serra has rounded up and translated French responses, as well as a set of English responses, and it’s a fascinating set of responses from people [...]

By: dusan

dusan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:25:13 +0000

ludi su ljudi koji se voli,paze i maze……ljudi se vole radi razloga

By: Why I Blog About Africa | White African

Why I Blog About Africa | White African — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:40:25 +0000

[...] Africa divide and I think holds a certain amount of power as I read others posts. See a good mini-aggregate post at Global [...]

By: Global Voices Online » “Why I blog about Africa” (Part 2)

Global Voices Online » “Why I blog about Africa” (Part 2) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:39:24 +0000

[...] couple of weeks ago, we collected some posts from a meme that was doing the rounds in the Francophone blogosphere answering the question of why [...]

By: Så var det sagt… » Bloggarkiv » Hvorfor blogge om Afrika/Why I blog about Africa

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:29:07 +0000

[...] whose posts were translated, condensed and presented in English through the brilliant blog portal Global Voices Online. This again was picked up by the anglophone African blogmog, with bloggers like Mootbox, [...]

By: Så var det sagt… » Bloggarkiv » Hvorfor blogger jeg om Afrika? del 1

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:41:43 +0000

[...] bloggeren Théophile Kouamouo som har satt i gang et meme med akkurat dette spørsmålet, og Global Voices følger opp med en oversikt over blogger som har fulgt opp utfordringen fra Théophile Kouamouo. Siden Kouamouo [...]

By: Geir

Geir — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:09:09 +0000

I, too, blog about Africa – and I’m inspired to follow up the meme on my own blog. But then something struck me when reading the English translation of Théophile’s blog. He writes:

Is blogging about Africa done in the same way as blogging about Europe or Asia?

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It’s just that I can’t find anyone writing about Europe or Asia. Sometimes people write about America, but then they mean the US. But on Africa we all blog. To me it is partly the sign of a great need, partly sign of an inferiority complex. What I would hope for, was for people to write about issues springing out of their context. When I write about Africa, I write about my visits to Kenya and Zambia, but I don’t know anything about Senegal or Ghana after travelling to these other countries. Writing about Africa? Isn’t it one way of segmenting stereoptypes in a somewhat damaging way?