Walter Nana Wilson, VoicesofAfrica alumnus in Buea, Cameroon
Many African bloggers and enthusiasts of the new media are breaking the myth that the digital divide between the north and the south is too wide. At the just ended Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2009, which took place at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany, Ivorian born blogger, Israel Yoroba Guébo, distinguished himself and his blog.
He won the Deutsche Welle BOBs (Blogosphere) Award 2008 in the category; Best Weblog French ‘Le Blog De Yoro’. In the video interview you are going to follow, granted in French by Guébo, to Voices of Africa Media Foundation, VOAMF, in Bonn, after receiving his award, the Ivorian blogger holds that Internet and the other forms of new media have a place in the African continent and his country, Ivory Coast in particular. He defined the blog as a personal website where you share your ideas with others.
‘It is a medium for freedom of speech. Let us use the Internet to inspire and inform our fellow citizens and thereby the rest of the world,’ he said. He invited Africans to use the blog to talk about their lives, their countries and their efforts. Let's follow Guébo in this video.
