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Friday, February 20, 2009

Africa Journalists Blogging

To me, blogging about working as a journalist in Africa is often as important (if less lucrative) than working as a journalist in Africa (which is also not lucrative). My blog is an outlet for the stories that don't work in the mainstream media, photos that don't make the wire, and thoughts about daily life that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day.

Based on how many other Africa journalists also blog, I'm guessing I'm not alone in this.

I'd like to make a sort of ongoing list of foreign correspondents in Africa who blog. Feel free to add to the list in the comments section and eventually I'll put out a revised full list, complete with your suggestions.

In no particular order, they are:

In Nairobi, Nick Wadhams
In Kigali, Jina Moore
In Khartoum, Andrew Heavens
Also in Nairobi, Derek Kilner
All over the place, David Axe
In Zambia, Aaron Leaf
In Nigeria, Wil Conors
All over the place, G. Paschal Zachary
In Nairobi, and elsewhere, Shashank Bengali
In Nairobi and elsewhere, photojournalist Micah Albert
In Nairobi and elsewhere, Rob Crilly
In Nairobi and elsewhere, Steve Bloomfield
In Monrovia, Myles Estey
In Abidjan, Pauline
In Congo and elsewhere, photojournalist TJ Kirkpatrick
In Nairobi and elsewhere, photojournalist J Carrier
In Cairo, photojournalist and editor Ben Curtis
In Congo and elsewhere, unnamed author of African Heros



And also,
Formerly all over Africa and still writing about Africa, Alex Belida
Formerly in Kampala, now in Mexico City, Alexis Okeowo
JHR folks
Frontline folks

9 comments:

Joe Powell said...

Thanks for this Glenna - very useful resource.

Scarlett Lion said...

Hi Joe - Glad you find it useful. Please let me know if there's anyone you know who should be included who isn't yet on my radar...

Loving your Uganda posts lately - your take on cabinet shuffle was way better than sifting though too many other sources! --SL

jogany said...

this is an awesome list may I had to the list excellent journalists* blogging from Madagascar and having a great impacts bot on their online readership and their published editorials which is ,for me, a great success :
Mialy http://mialisenfout.hautetfort.com/
Randy Donny http://randydoit.hautetfort.com/
* both in French

Diário da África said...

Hi,
In Angola you also have a journalist blogging about Africa.
It is written in Portuguese: www.diariodaafrica.blogspot.com
But there is a tool people can translate it to other languages.
Best regards

Sukuma Kenya said...

Why only foreign correspondants and why only journalists? Things are changing very rapidly as you know on the continent and citizen journalists through blogs, etc are increasingly becoming the first point of stop for mainstream media. I can't speak for the entire continent but this is definitly what is happening in Kenya. A lot of references and even reprinting of blogposts happening in Kenya....

Scarlett Lion said...

@jogany - thanks! I'll add these later - and if you want to compile more French ones I'd add these as well since my French is tres terrible.

@Diario - likewise for Portuguese.

@Sukuma - I agree the lines are blurring, but I also think there are a lot of guides and lists of Kenyan bloggers, and as far as I know, not too many lists like this. When I read these blogs and hear other journos complaining about foreign desks not taking their calls or the inability to get stories published that are important, this resonates with my experience. So I wanted to make a list like this.

julie said...

You captured precisely why I think blogging and traditional media are both important. And thanks for this incredible list of writers and reporters- can't wait to learn more about them and their work!

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