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, www.ekosso.com, which is maintained by Rosemary Ekosso, a translator and courtroom interpreter at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands.
Coming from a continent where voices of women are almost often muffled - that is, if they are heard at all - and where women writers are usually boxed into writing only about "soft" and non-controversial issues, Ekosso tackles anything that catches her fancy; racism, immigration, politics, women's issues, religion, African development, etc.
Ekosso’s voice is a much-needed breath of fresh air to the African blogging landscape. Her irreverent and take-no-prisoners approach to issues and events is just the type of jolt needed to awaken a continent which is slowly slipping into global irrelevance.
We seize this opportunity to welcome this new addition to the small but growing Cameroonian blogging community.
Click here to visit Rosemary’s blog. Do not forget to bookmark the site before you leave.
It is great to see Cameroonians joining the blogging bandwagon and actually writing serious and thoughtful articles.
The age of the African citizen journalist and analysts is definitely at hand when blogs don't have anything to envy from the websites of major cameroonian media Powerhouses like Le Messager and The Post.
Kudos to Rosemary and all other future bloggers
Posted by: Fonyonga | July 18, 2006 at 11:53 AM