The BOBs Award
on November 13, 2006
Category: Blogosphere
I Just received an email from Sean Sinico of the BOBS award congratulating me on winning the public’s choice award for the Best WeBlog in English. The jury award for best weblog went to PaidContent and the public’s award went to Lisa Neun which is a German blog. I just had a look through the list of Jury Awards compared to the list of Public Awards and there isn’t a common choice. This makes me think that the Jury criteria and the public’s criteria were quite different or maybe the public just didn’t get what the jury were looking for. I cant figure it out - maybe there was no criteria for the public vote - just vote for the blogs you appreciated and liked?
Nonetheless it is encouraging to see so many “freedom of expression” blogs being recognised at a time when those of us who live in the West are seeing our rights as individuals slowly being eroded. Maybe reading blogs by those challenging repression and censorship in their countries will be a wake up call for bloggers in the West to not take our “freedoms” (I use the word tentatively as real freedoms do not exist any where in this world) for granted.
Personally I was honoured to have been nominated let alone win the public’s vote and a big thank you to everyone for the recognition of hard work put into Black Looks over the past two and a half years. Most of all I am proud to win this as an African woman and want to share this honour with my sisters and brothers in the African blogosphere who have also worked hard to inform the global citizen community about the lives of women, health, literature, politics, human rights, music and just everything about Africa and the African Diaspora.
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34 Comments so far
1. Magoo
November 13th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Well done, Sokari, you truly deserve it!!! Viva, Black Looks, Viva!!!
2. Sokari
November 13th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Thanks Magoo - Viva joburg:)
3. Haitham
November 13th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Congratulations my friend. You deserve it
4. Oluniyi David Ajao
November 13th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Congrats Sokari!
I saw the news on DW-TV yesterday, and saw that you won the English language category, on their website this morning. Congrats again.
Keep up the good work.
5. Oluniyi David Ajao
November 13th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Congrats Sokari!
I saw the news on DW-TV yesterday, and saw that you won the English language category, on their website this morning. Congrats again.
Keep up the good work.
6. dara
November 13th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
congratulations! I really appreciate your blog. I share it with my Women’s Studies class.
7. imnakoya
November 13th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Congratulations!
8. deviousdiva
November 13th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
This is great! Congratulations to you (and to others bloggers of the African Blogosphere) who are making this vibrant and valuable community and who are bringing Africa to us. Thank you.
9. obi
November 13th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
and very well deserved i say. i type with a big smile plastered across my face! well done Sokari and thank you.
more grease to your elbows and god bless
10. Sokari
November 13th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Obi@glad you are still “blog watching” if not writing - come back soon we miss you!
Dara@ wow thats great really!
Everyone including my kids - thanks
11. Robin
November 13th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Hi Sokari,
A few months ago I linked to your site from Sabbah’s and LOVED your blog. I haven’t left a message before but just want to say, your attitude is so inspirational, intelligent, and truth-bearing. Best of luck in all of your endeavors and may you always be blessed in everything you do. CONGRATULATIONS!!
12. Kenyan Pundit
November 13th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Congrats Sokari! You deserve it and this is one more thing that the African blogging community can brag about
13. Brian
November 13th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Excellent! Congratulations to you and to all the bloggers who are a part of Black Looks.
14. Mustapha
November 13th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
That’s my mum you are all congratulating! (Thank you all!)
MY MUM!
I’M SO PROUD!
Well done Mommy!
15. Rezwan
November 13th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Congratulations. A well deserved choice. I was anticipating you as the winner by the juries.
16. Sokari
November 13th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Rezwan@ yes that would have been really great but hey there are so many deserving blogs out there really hard to choose 10 for each category let alone one - to be honest i would congratulate anyone who has been blogging as long as you and I and stuck with it cause it aint always easy. Remember you were one of the first blogs I connected up with?
Mus@ thanks and a big hug from Mommy:)
17. Del
November 13th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Congratulations!
Your hard work and dedication has had a major impact on us all AND how we share information and filter the news.
Keep it up!
We are watching…..we are listening
18. Andrea
November 14th, 2006 at 12:27 am
Congratulations Sokari!
You are doing admirable work. Splendid.
19. Kym Platt
November 14th, 2006 at 5:15 am
Congrats!
20. Curt
November 14th, 2006 at 6:14 am
I’d be lying if I said I weren’t suprised. And NOT because you don’t deserve it. To wit: http://blogswana.wordpress.com/2006/11/14/sokari-wins-bob-award/
21. Shiroh
November 14th, 2006 at 8:17 am
Congratulations Sokari.
From a Big Fan
22. Jikomboe » Wapiga Kura Wamenena + Tuzo za Blogu
November 14th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
[…] Mwisho mwa mwezi uliopita nilikutaka ushiriki kwa kuwapigia kura wanablogu toka Afrika ambao walikuwa wanashindania tuzo ya blogu bora duniani. Bonyeza hapa usome niliyoandika. Habari njema ni kuwa mwanablogu toka Nigeria, Sokari Ekine, wa blogu ya Black Looks, ameshinda kwa kuwa na blogu bora katika lugha ya kiingereza. Shangwe, hoi hoi, nderemo, na vifijo!! Bonyeza hapa usome aliyoandika, na hapa na hapa uone blogu zilizopata tuzo. Utaona kuwa kuna blogu zilizopata tuzo kwa kuchaguliwa na jopo la majaji na kuna zilizopata tuzo kwa kura za wasomaji. […]
23. Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Africa: best blog in english
November 14th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
[…] Black Looks wins user prize for Best Weblog in English, “I Just received an email from Sean Sinico of the BOBS award congratulating me on winning the public’s choice award for the Best WeBlog in English.” Ndesanjo Macha […]
24. Brian
November 14th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
well done. i know i certainly look forward to reading this blog.
25. brownfemipower
November 14th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Hey girl, sorry it’s taken me a few days to get over here, I’ve been sooo busy–but don’t think I didn’t see this and wasn’t absolutly thrilled for you!!!! This is wonderful and I am SOOOO proud of you and for you!!!!! Congratulations!!!!
26. Davis
November 14th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Congratulations!!!! And good work, keep it up Sokari,from your dear Davis.
27. víctor Solano
November 14th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Congratulations for your prize. Bye!
28. Filipogs
November 14th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Congratulations!
29. Abdurahman
November 16th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Congurats, this is one of my favorite blogs, keep up the good work.
30. Gbeborun of Lagos
November 24th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Congrats Sokari. Who cares what the Jury thinks. Th public says you rock, end of story.
Congrats. Keppdrumming the African beat Gurl!
31. Sokari
November 24th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Gbeborun@ Thanks - the beat is up and up tempo:)
32. Sabbah’s Blog » Blog Archive » 2007 Bloggie Awards!
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:59 am
[…] This year, I personally nominated two blogs beside my own, “Black Looks” (the African blog and winner of 2006 BOBs award) and “Desert Peace” (the Israeli blog). […]
33. Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Gargoyle: Channeling the African Blogosphere
March 9th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
[…] In November last year, Africa Media blog had a post about the blog, Black Looks, winning Best of Blogs (BOB) award for best English language blog. The post concluded thus: Sokari’s terrific blog is — unfortunately — one of the handful of African blogs to turn up in the top 10 (sometimes top 15) blogs in a Technorati search of their blog directory when using the search word “Africa.” Instead, get this, what comes up are some white American guys including a rightwing radio talk show host, a couple of Manhattan “media girls” traipsing around the Third World, and my favorite grass-roots African voice, The World Bank. Silly me, why in the world would I expect to find African blogs when searching for “Africa” in a blog directory? […]
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