However one blogger is breaking that mould. Glad to be a girl has taken home the Best African Weblog award at the Ninth Annual Weblog Awards. I think this is a fantastic achievement for the blog and for South African bloggers alike.

What a fantastic achievement and my congratulations go out to Philly Girl. Catch her on twitter too. Similar Posts:

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I attended the Digital Citizen Indaba and the Highway Africa 2008 conference. One of the highlights and surprises of the Highway Africa conference for me was meeting Khaya Dlanga, a video blogger and blogger from South Africa.

I have blogged about Khaya’s work before and truly believe that he is one of the few successful local Vloggers who has managed to pull of a YouTube channel with some punch behind it.

Here’s Khaya at the HA conference:

And here is Khaya after winning the award:

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