The Life of a Princess in the South

Entries from March 2008

24-hour Fame and Popularity

March 31, 2008 · 13 Comments

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Whilst checking my dashboard, I was surprised to see my name as one of the top 5 growing blogs in wordpress as of 30 March 2008. And I am enjoying it a lot. Who will be joining me in rejoicing my 24-hour Fame and Popularity? :-)

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Angry African on the Loose’ Guestpost

March 26, 2008 · 6 Comments

I am very honoured to introduce and welcome my first guestblogger Angry African on the Loose this month of women’s celebration. He speaks his mind with passion and I hope you enjoy his post. For more go to Guestbloggers Bench. :-)

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Long Live Mama Africa

angry african

written and posted with passion by Angry African

I am always amazed at how people from outside Africa look at Africa and always have an “oh shame” expression on their faces. They somehow feel sorry for the people of Africa. You know. How could you not? How could you not feel sorry for the people of Africa when all you see in the papers and on the charity cars are the faces of hungry children and suffering women. You can’t have a heart and not feel sorry for them. Or can you?Sorry is not the emotion we want you to feel when you look at us. And sorry is not the feeling you should have when you look at the women of Africa. They have given birth to Africa. The children of Africa. And they carry Africa on their backs. The same way they carry the children of

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My Top 10 Best Women Bloggers with Influence

March 23, 2008 · 34 Comments

As I promised, this March, I would talk about more on women struggles, issues, ups and downs, and above all unnoticed successes. I am maybe one of the newest face in the blogosphere. For almost two months of blogging here in wordpress, I find how fantastic and exiciting it is. I always have the love of writing. I usually write some stuff on what I think of the issues today in my diary. However, I ended with laziness using my hand in writing. Then I found blogging as part of the online communication revolution something that fits my interest. It all started there. Then I have this blog, and it feels like home, with plenty of neighbours around saying hi’s and hello’s.

 

I visit blogs of people I don’t know. I stop to where I find it cool, lessons rich, captivating, and worthy. I also started interacting with their authors to become my guestbloggers. And let me see where it takes me in this blog world.

For the meantime, amongst the million of good women bloggers around, I have chosen them as my top 10 women favourites. The criteria are my personal criteria. I visit these blogs always because they have very good writing styles, they touched my life by their views, they taught me significant things, they make me cry and laugh, and they inspire me to continue blogging and become one of them.

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