A new blog aggregator for blogs related to Nigeria, has been unveiled at http://bloggers.com.ng The Nigerian blogosphere is easily one of the most vibrant on the African continent. Though figures are hard to come by,  a conservative estimate would put the number of Nigerian blogs at about 2,000. Following the thousands of blogs related to [...]

Expressions is a monthly event revolving around a literary & arts night. It is hosted by DK Osei-Yaw and this month’s event features Ghana Bloggers. It is to be held at Smoothy’s on Upper Oxford Street in Osu, Accra. It comes-up this Friday 4th December 2009 @ 7pm prompt. Ghana Bloggers can be found at [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. A going concern for many bloggers is the  number of comments they receive on their personal blogs. Many bloggers consider comments on their posts a mark of endorsement, approval or popularity; this is true, to some extent. [...]

Thursday night was special for me because several guests attended the monthly Ghanablogging.com meeting. Smoothies on Osu Oxford street was the venue and techies, bloggers, entrepreneurs, photographers were among those present. Total attendance: 23. The discuss varied from the introduction of maneno.org by Miquel Hudin Balsa, popularity of blogging in Ghana, comparison with Nigeria, to [...]

I came by this event titled “Nigerian Bloggers Conference” via Deolu Akinyemi‘s profile on Facebook.com I added “2008″ to the title of this blog post because I believe there would be subsequent events like this in years to come. The host of this event is the man Deolu Akinyemi himself and it takes place tentatively [...]

I had the honour and pleasure of meeting some fellow bloggers here in Ghana, last Thursday. 6:30pm was the time and Honeysuckle Restaurant & Pub, Osu here in Accra was the venue. The meeting was so nice and exciting we stayed for some 15 more minutes than scheduled. It was quite revealing as we had [...]

Are you you a fellow blogger in Ghana? If yes, you might want to meet like-minded people in Accra and Tema. Some bloggers are arranging for a meet-up sometime this week here in Accra, Ghana and I hope to be there too. Why? Just some social networking, discussion about blogging and some excitement. If you [...]

Just yesterday evening, I was chatting with a good friend via Yahoo! Messenger, and he pointed me to Afrigator.com, asking for my comment about the website. I immediately signed-up on the website and now I proudly carry an Afrigator badge on my personal blog. Afrigator is more than a regular blog aggregator. It comes with [...]

I intend to look closely at paying to hosting one’s blog as compared to using free blogs.

I came to know about blogging when I was researching about Content Management System (CMS), for a client who wanted it. I’m a web developer, by the way. At the time (early 2004) I needed the best CMS solution that was easy to implement and run. Blogging did not appear to fit my client’s requirement so I simply noted it in my memory bank, to return to it much later. Read on…

Rivallry has existed between Ghana and Nigeria, for some time now. I do not see the case for comparing the two West African nations; I consider it like comparing a mango with an orange.