These Are The Top Gossip Blogs in Africa

Who doesn’t like an interesting and accurate gossip, about any other person than themselves? Definitely no one. Nevermind I just used accurate and gossip in one sentence.

Merge the internet, a website, scandals and a gossip monger then you have the essential ingredients that makes up a proper gossip blog. But then, there are gossip blogs and there are ‘Gossip Blogs’. Not all gossip blogs have the finesse required to keep readers hooked, be rightly referred to as sources of “accurate gossips”.

In no particular order, these are the top gossip blogs in Africa you should check out.

Lindaikeji.blogspot.com

Owned by ex-model, writer and entrepreneur, Linda Ikeji, the blog is a popular gossip hub in Nigeria, commanding a captive and an unreservedly caustic audience. Linda Ikeji had had to contend copyrights infringement catcalls from time to time, but the blog has only gotten better over time. The blog, according to Alexa is the 13th most visited site in Nigeria.

Ameyawdebrah.com

Owned by the freelance journalist and blogger Ameyaw Kissi Debrah, the blog was launched in 2008. The blog is a curator of celebrity gossips and fashion news from Ghana and the rest of the world. The blog also curate songs and new releases from artists, and allows listeners download songs right away and drop comments too.

In 2013, Ameyawdebrah won the Best Showbiz/Entertainment Blog category for Ghana Social Media Awards, and City People Entertainment Awards for Best Blogger (Ghana) in the same year.

BellaNaija.com

BellaNaija is a Nigerian entertainment, lifestyle and fashion blog launched in July 2006 by Uche Pedro.

The blog started out as a niche wedding and bridals blog site with posts intensely flavored with high-res, and glamour photographs. BellaNaija soon began reporting general entertainment news and sometimes published opinion pieces on Nigeria’s national policies as time went by.

Pulse.ng

Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Pulse is owned by Ringier AG, Swiss international operating media company.
Pulse publishes stories about pretty much everything and categorizes for easy navigation. Pulse list stories in specific categories; Student pulse, Pulse Tech, Pulse Traffic, Viral Pulse and more earnest Pulse entrepreneur. Pulse.ng is the 29th most visited site in Nigeria according to Alexa.

Omgghana

Omgghana is based in Ghana and it publishes its stories mostly in a list format. It publishes the staples of a regular gossip site with focus visuals, sort of like Buzzfeed.

OMGGhana was founded by Boakye Boampong and Dominic Mensah and both are also Co-Founders of Bigxgh.com (rebranded as Bgx.com.gh), a music streaming, music distribution, music sales, music downloads, music services. Omgghana is the 54th most trafficked site in Ghana, according to Alexa.

Mpasho

Kenya- based Mpasho reels off a regular dose of gossip from artistes, fashion, lifestyle, events, politics, music, and explicit toppings. Mpasho news is Radio Africa Group’s clone of Ghafla. The site is the 55th most trafficked site in Kenya, according to Alexa.

Ghafla

Ghafla, began as a music lyrics site in 2009 and has been restructured into an entertainment news and gossip platform. It is owned by Samuel Majani. Ghafla is renowned for its serial stories and captivating gist. Some of the team were coaxed and left to form one of the top gossip outfit in Kenya- Mpasho. Ghafla recorded 2 million readers in February 2015.

Standard Digital

The website from Kenya indexes gist on celebrity and updates on local gigs, including science, tech and politics. The website also features thought pieces from time to time. It also features an Evewoman column for gist on women. It’s the 29th most trafficked site in Kenya.

Howwe

Howwe indexes videos about the Ugandan entertainment scene and funny reblogs from other websites. Howee also has a free MP3 downloads website for local artistes.

Bigeye

Uganda’s entertainment blog, publishes stories around celebrities, news, sport, with tons of music that can be listened to while surfing the website. Bigeye has a portal for aggregated lyrics on choice of song too. Bigeye is also big user of list formats.

Nairobiwire

Nairobiwire feature news on politics, business, technology, sport, weird, entertainment, lifestyle, humour, and social media. The website also run a classifieds website for cars called CarArea.

Glamour

Glamour is a South African media platform for beauty and lifestyle, celebrity gist, dos and don’ts on fashion, et cetera. It also has a digital edition of the Glamour magazine to which readers can subscribe.

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