A Real Milestone for the Sudanese Blogosphere

Posted on February 4, 2008
Filed Under Sudanese, Blogging and New Media |

Dear readers,

today is a good and happy day. I believe those of you who have been coming here for a while now already know how excited I get every time a new Sudanese blog pops up. My open letter to the Sudanese blogosphere indicated that evidently.

It looks like the Sudanese blogosphere is starting to build real momentum. Blogs written in English are quite active now and are the people-powered new media showing the genuine, diverse and raw face of Sudan to the world. It’s great but we could do a lot better and get more to join.

On the other hand, blogs within Sudanese aimed mainly at a Sudanese audience and written in Arabic have mushroomed at another corner of this vast online space. They’re just as important as those written in English (maybe even more important) and they’re explicitly leveraging the power of the internet to practice their right to free expression.

Communities are forming, voices are gathering and constructive discussion is happening.

Allow me to introduce to you SudaneseBloggers.com, the official community of Sudanese bloggers (well, at least those who write in Arabic).

The quality of posts is pretty good. People are venting a great deal and saying what’s on their mind.

Amna, a human rights activist has a brave post in English about how she was sexually harassed by a journalist while working at a pro-government newspaper. One blog in Arabic called Un-Masking Islam is vehemently anti-Islamist and has no love whatsoever for Turabi’s failed policies which brought nothing but misery to the Sudanese people. Imad on the other hand chose the slogan of the Muslim brotherhood “Islam is the solution” for his blog. Even Ali, Black-Gay-Arab is onboard. The community is dynamic and diverse.

One blog can hardly make a difference, but many combined can be a real force for some good change. This is a real milestone for the Sudanese blogosphere and we should all be very glad about it. May we continue growing.

Indeed, today is a good and happy day.

Comments

5 Responses to “A Real Milestone for the Sudanese Blogosphere”

  1. ُSamah on February 4th, 2008 6:30 am

    Thanx to mr. Imad aldeen Aldabagh, he is the founder of the sudanesebloggers.com and the author of unmasking-islam.net
    he is really working hard to unite Sudanese Bloggers, I read before that he was looking for non-arabic bloggers to establish an English copy of the sudanesebloggers.com,
    I think you should work together as both of you are so much interested for the Sudanese Blogosphere

  2. Drima on February 4th, 2008 9:31 am

    I wasn’t aware that somewhere on the other side a Sudanese blogosphere written in Arabic was forming, so the discovery was a very pleasant one. I guess he isn’t aware that an English one already exists.

  3. Amna Mukhtar on February 5th, 2008 12:55 am

    Thank u all , for your nice words.

    regards.

  4. Amjad on February 5th, 2008 3:17 am

    Any brief information on the founder of this community blog, Mr. Al-dabagh?

  5. Drima on February 5th, 2008 4:40 am

    Yeah, it would be interesting to get to know the guy.

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