On Monday May 10, the Globe and Mail’s world news site will be guest edited by a Kenyan blogger named Ory Okolloh. In the Globe’s words…
Ms. Okolloh has been invited to edit our world site in order to share with readers a view of Africa and African news not normally seen in Canada — “The Africa You Don’t Know.” We want to present our readers with a full experience of what the average news day looks like across the continent, featuring content from bloggers and smaller papers to mainstream media outlets.
I think what we are likely to find in Ms. Okolloh’s articles and links is a much wider variety of topics than what we are used to seeing coming out of Africa.
African bloggers have more on their minds then corruption, poverty, and war. These are certainly areas that are discussed often, but there is a lot of other things being said as well. There is everything from Tanzanian celebrity news on BongoCelebrity to internet trends and technologies on this Ghanaian blog.
You can find a whole range of African blogs on a variety of topics via sites that aggregate and rank the top African blogs. Two of the more popular ones are Afrigator and Global Voices Online, (the latter discussed previously here).
Spend some time visiting Africa on the web – you might be surprised what you find.
Flickr photo of Kenyan Ory Okolloh by Gregor Rohrig
