Searching for blogs by African women – now I am having to deal with the fact that these women may not be black – I consider myself to be a highly intelligent female so why is it that I forget that there are white Africans? or is it that I just cannot accept that some Africans are white? So now I am out there looking for blogs by African women and beside having to figure out if a blog is a female or male now I have to think are they black or white because frankly when I talked of African women blogging i meant black African women blogging not white ones. It is impossible to get away from all this black and white stuff. Like male and female you cannot escape it and so anyone with issues in these areas needs to deal with them and move on.
Bloody hell this has thrown me – I mean its not as if I don’t know there are white Africans – eg in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa for starters, but somehow they passed to some other place in by brain. The worst thing about it is they all have African names which is really confusing me!!! so I go to the about page of one blog and see a picture of a guy on a racing bike and I just know this guy is not black – now is that stereotyping or not. The only black guy I have seen on a racing bike with helmet and whole kit is the guy in Thelma and Louise cycling (or should I say cruising) through the grand canyon with a huge spliff hanging out of his mouth.
I have come across one blog that is worth mentioning written by a Nigerian that unfortunately has been abandoned since last September called "re-inventing Nigeria” (his last post was “how to sell ice to Eskimos” – his words not mine) now living in "Exile" in the US – fancy being exiled to the US? Nigerians are always "exiling” themselves in strange far off places like me in a Spanish mountain village. Once I went on holiday to Lesbos in the Greek islands and discovered a Nigerian married to a lesbian" (what else do you call a woman from Lesbos?) living in this small village. I couldn’t get over it. another time I was in Panama on the border with Costa Rica and I met a Nigerian working in a Chinese grocery shop? The only other inhabitants of this border camp were Indian workers from a nearby banana plantation (never eat bananas from Costa Rica) sex workers, Panamanian border guards and a few other strays like myself. I stayed a week in this place as the rum was cheap and well it was good fun.
To return to African Women Blogging. I managed to eventually find lots of African women blogging from Africa and the Diaspora. The Kenyans seem to dominate but there are others too and you can find them all under African Women Blogging. I cannot be sure how accurate it is as it is not always clear whether the blogger is male or female and trying to read between the lines to determine the persons sex isn’t always easy so if anyone picks up errors please email me or leave a comment and apologies for any mistakes.
