Afrigator (love the name!) has compiled some statistics on the current state of the African blogosphere, and it makes for some interesting reading.

Plenty of numbers to digest, with the full presentation available here, but here are some key figures of interest:

In Africa as a whole, the number of blog posts indexed by Afrigator leapt from just under 69,000 to over 115,000. In South Africa, posts more than doubled, from around 77,000 to over 164,000.

South Africa dominates the African blog space, with nearly three in every five blogs attributable to the country. Other identifiable countries include Kenya (8%), Nigeria (5.5%), and Tanzania (~2%). read more