Afrigator, the leading African blog aggregator, has a listing which ranks the top Cameroonian blogs. Although the Cameroonian blogosphere has grown in leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, only 48 Cameroon-related blogs are listed on Afrigator (compared to 5387 South African blogs and 935 from Nigeria) – a fact which highlights the insularity of the Cameroonian blogosphere whose members do not generally seem interested in reaching out to readers beyond the Cameroonian community.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The man was nervous. He was afraid, he said, of the secret police. So he advised me to hire a random taxi. I was to park at a certain church. And there, I was to wait. A few minutes later he called again, this time on a different cell phone. He gave me directions to a nondescript house with an iron gate.
January 1, 2007 of
Africa's first conference on blogging, the 

Sometime last week, I wrote about the virtual absence of Cameroonian bloggers in the African bloggosphere. I am happy to report that since that posting, the Cameroonian blogging community has been enriched with a new blog,
1. Africa and the Information Superhighway: What Future? (pp. 14-15)
For next few days, we will take a look how Africans at home and in the Diaspora are harnessing the Internet (particularly the power of weblogs) to build vibrant cyber-communities, provide alternative analyses of events in the continent, challenge oppressive national regimes, and express personal views on a variety of issues. 

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