There is a question that has been bouncing in my head for some time now. Its become pretty obvious that blogging in Africa has gone mainstream with lots of activity on a whole range of different topics and issues. However, just how big is blogging in Africa? As in, how large is the African blogosphere? I set out online recently to try and find resources that may have the answer to this question.

The problem with the Internet when it comes to Africa is that there is the issue of limited local content. This, taken a step further, is also compounded by the lack of directories or search engines that comprehensively catalog African web sites and not just blogs in particular. I searched a large number of diverse online resources and was able to  establish that only one web site really did a good job of cataloging the African blogosphere, as limited or incomplete as the cataloging may be at this juncture.

When it comes to African blogosphere, the web site that had the most comprehensive listing of African blogs is Afrigator. Afrigator is a social media aggregator and directory built especially for Africans who publish and consume content online. Afrigator indexes African blogs, podcasts, videocasts or other types web sites and markets them globally.

Using Afrigator, I was able to establish that Africa does indeed have a large number of active blogs, more than I had even suspected. The full Afrigator blog listing in the order of the most blogs by country (as of this writing) was as follows:

1. South Africa – 6390 blogs
2. Nigeria – 1080 blogs
3. Africa General – 776 blogs
4. Kenya – 552 blogs
5. Egypt – 322 blogs
6. Ghana – 139 blogs
7. Tanzania – 118 blogs
8. Uganda – 108 blogs
9. Tunisia – 84 blogs
10. Cameroon – 82 blogs
11. Morocco – 72 blogs
12. Madagascar – 71 blogs
13. Zimbabwe – 64 blogs
14. Algeria – 44 blogs
15. Ethiopia – 43 blogs
16. Mauritius – 40 blogs
17. Ivory Coast – 37 blogs
18. DRC – 35 blogs
19. Zambia – 34 blogs
20. Malawi – 28 blogs
21. Mozambique – 25 blogs
22. Namibia – 25 blogs
23. Botswana – 22 blogs
24. Senegal – 21 blogs
25. Angola – 21 blogs
26. Somalia – 17 blogs
27. Cape Verde – 13 blogs
28. Sudan – 12 blogs
29. Congo – 12 blogs
30. Mali – 10 blogs
31. Libya – 9 blogs
32. Togo – 9 blogs
33. Rwanda – 9 blogs
34. Lesotho – 9 blogs
35. Swaziland – 7 blogs
36. Niger – 7 blogs
37. Benin – 6 blogs
38. Sierra Leone – 6 blogs
39. Liberia – 6 blogs
40. Burkina Faso – 5 blogs
41. Seychelles – 4 blogs
42. Eritrea – 4 blogs
43. R̩union Р3 blogs
44. Gambia – 3 blogs
45. Mauritania – 3 blogs
46. Djibouti – 2 blogs
47. Mayotte – 2 blogs
48. Sao Tomé and Princípe – 2 blogs
49. Guinea – 2 blogs
50. Burundi – 2 blogs
51. Western Sahara – 2 blogs
52. Chad – 1 blogs
53. Equatorial Guinea – 1 blogs
54. Central African Republic – 1 blogs