African blogger issues

Recently, I received a nice message from fellow blogger Maryam in Morocco and ventured over to her site. She has a great blog through which she shares with readers the beauty of her experiences in Morocco. For those who aren’t aware, Maryam is nominated in the 7th Annual Bloggies, and deservedly so. The problem though, as White African mentioned, is that both Maryam and Dotty Rhino are nominated in a category for “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog”. Since when could the whole of Africa be lumped in with the Middle East. Stuff like this is quite depressing. I know African bloggers are not so high profile but anyone who reads Global Voices knows there are enough of us to warrant our own category. I guess we still have a lot of work to do. Go and vote for the African bloggers. Hopefully we’ll get our own category next year.