ET Blogs
BBC Focus on Africa magazine featured an article about Ethiopian (and other African) bloggers that was written by Meskel Square’s Andrew Heavens. Andrew attributes the growth in the number of African bloggers to the spread of the internet infrastructure and the recent upheaval in the Ethiopian political scene.
Andrew writes:
While this is partly due to the slow but sure spread of internet infrastructure across the country, another reason is the number of seismic events that have taken place since the May elections - which have acted as a powerful recruiting sergeant for the blogging community
Another reason why I believe that we are noticing an explosion in the blog scene is due to the informal nature of blogs. Deadlines, fixed formats, high cost of publishing and nuances of maintaining websites etc would have discouraged many bloggers from sharing their thoughts and experiences.
The number of Ethiopian related blog sites, as Anderew pointed out, has been growing at a healthy rate. Thanks to such a medium, we have the privilege of reading the knowledgeable political analysis of Ethiopundit, the extremely funny writings and opinions of Wonqette, a variety of wonderful articles and pictures of Andrew, the instigative articles on Ethiopian women by our own Wegesha etc. I hope many more articulate Ethiopian and friends of Ethiopia get on the band wagon and share their invaluable experiences with us. I also hope to see more Ethiopian bloggers from the mother land start blogging (if interested, please email us at yekolotemari AT gmail DOT com).
P.S.
We have not heard from tsegasaurus of Satisfy My Soul [EGO] in a while. If you are reading, even MJ had come back from retirement.
