African Blog Portals, Aggregators and resource webs
Pan African Aggregators and blog portals:
afrigator.com is a widely used Pan African aggregator. It’s probably the largest of its kind.
Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.
Pambazuka do great round ups of bloggers focused on Africa in English, French and Portugese. They also write good introductions to a variety of topics.
All Africa: A blog forum with bloggers from different corners of Africa. Some argue it’s a bit “messy” compared to other forums, but there is quite a variety of blogs.
African Path is a Kenyan web portal of blogs focused on Africa. Good introductions of the bloggers themselves to the right. A well organized site.
African Loft with the tagline “Where the People and the Friends of Africa Mingle” was launched in June 2007. A large proportion of the bloggers live in North America and you’ll need to log in to read some of the blog posts.
Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project. Global Voices aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online. It is a blog forum for all corners of the world, but it is relatively easy to focus in on Africa or specific African countries. It's easy to search for and find articles and information.
Pan African Thematic Blogs:
African Agriculture is a good blog about African Agriculture that seeks to keep abreast of and analyzing news about African agriculture.
National Aggregators and blog lists:
Kenya:
The Kenyan Blog Aggregator presents a list of Kenyan bloggers and recent Kenyan blog posts.
The Kenyan blogs Web ring, started on the 5th of July 2004. It is a web ring devoted to blogs about Kenya or written by Kenyans.
Kwani Trust was established in 2003. This Kenyan Trust is dedicated to nurturing and developing Kenya and Africa's intellectual and creative resources through strategic literary interventions.
Ushahidi started during the crisis following the Kenyan election in December 2007. On the 9th of January 2008, a group of Kenyan bloggers had put together a mash up and created Ushahidi a site for people to send SMS or email reports of acts of violence direct to the site. Recently, Ushahidi also deployed in DR Congo!
Nigeria:
Nigerian Bloggers is a good tool to find Nigerian blogs you're looking for! Perhaps not surprisingly, not all are from Nigeria, but this site has quite a diversity of good writers and it is relatively easy to navigate and search for good Nigerian blogs.
South Africa:
Blog Forums:
Thought Leader is a blog forum of the South African newspaper Mail and Guardian. This popular blog forum has lots of good writers. It is also very easy to navigate this site and search for articles.
The Times Planet Blog is the blog forum of the South African newspaper The Times. This forum has quite a diversity of writers and includes everything from blogs exclusively committed to commenting on vine to political commentaries.
Blog Rating Website:
Amatomu: The South African newspaper Mail and Guardian is hosting Amatomu, which advertises itself as “The South African blogosphere, sorted”. The sorting refers to the site’s ranked lists, which list blogs in terms of their popularity in terms of unique visitors. Amatomu is able to calculate this by asking participating bloggers to put a badge on their sites - by analyzing how many users see this badge, the system can calculate how many readers see the blog.
Blogs:
Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Blog. They generally publish resource of newsworthy items related to the activities of the ISS and research conducted by the Institute. These articles are generally "heavier" than most weblog posts.
The Abahlali website is published by a popular people movement. The Durban-based shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali base Mjondolo was formed in 2006 to campaign against the forced removals of residents in the settlements which have existed for some 30 years. Abahlali is a movement of the “militant poor” in the province of KwaZulu Natal and includes thousands of residents in some 30 settlements.
African Francophone Blogs:
Unfortunately, NCA currently does not have French language blogs. However, if you are interested, here are some sites to help you look for good African francophone blogs:
Pambazuka blog round up in French: The same type of blog updates as on the English pages, but there are not quite as many blog round ups in French.
Do also check out French TV 5's list of African blogs.
Afrigator and Global Voices also have French language blog pages on Africa.