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Africa: Who owns the African blogosphere?

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 @ 10:38 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

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Daudi Were asks, “who owns the African blogosphere?”: “In my opinion the internet is a space through which discussion takes place and blogs are the tool through which we utilise that space for discussion. In other words this space we have carved on the internet is our land and bloggers are the occupiers of that land.”

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“Africa: Who owns the African blogosphere?”

September 18th, 2007 at 22:15 pm
William Deed:
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It seems that the site for the link is down, however the post can still be read here:

http://www.mashada.com/blogs/Mentalacrobatics/2007/09/11/Who_owns_the_African_blogosphere_

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