I have just come across a blog in Somali, “The Voice Of Somaliland Diaspora-Ottawa”. Their mission statement says:
“We are committed to publishing and disseminating news and information that contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of current events, as they are occurring to our readers”
Nearly everything else is written in Somali, which prompted me to challenge the readers of my own blog to start something similar in Hausa. The technical aspect of publishing text, audio or even video is nowadays easier than ever before and you can have it hosted for free. All we lack is people who share their ideas in Hausa.
Carmen McCain posted the following to the H-Hausa discussion list:
Ga wannan blog: http://jafargiginyu.blogspot.com/
This is indeed a blog in Hausa, and I congratulate the owner for this. Unfortunately, it is no longer active. All the postings were written on 26th January 2006.
Here is another Hausa blog:
http://www.alternative.ne/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2
i created blog in hausa and posted many articles
u can check the one above to see for ur self
@mustapha
So far, it seems that there is only one article on your blog. Keep posting!
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
These aren’t all entirely in Hausa, but here are some blogs with Hausa content that are more updated.
http://ibrahim-sheme.blogspot.com/
http://shairai.blogspot.com/
http://www.talatu-carmen.blogspot.com/
http://gidandabino.blogspot.com/
Thank you for adding these addresses. I have written this blog post in November 2006 and quite a bit has happened in the Hausa-speaking blogosphere since then. You can find updates of some of the mentioned blogs at http://friendfeed.com/hausaonline
Hey, a little bit of a side question here but do any of the blogs you’ve found talk about Hausa clothing such as whether the indigo color is still used, and also anything on Hausa names and meanings?