Is Afriville the African Myspace in Nigeria?
May 2, 2008
The success of music and video sharing/social networking sites, Myspace and Youtube has meant that African Internet users have a lot of choices to make as they can listen and watch African music and videos from local music/video sharing sites such as Afriville.com
Afriville is a Nigerian social networking site that allows users to listen to music, watch videos, create blogs, share opinions in forums, see photos, meet people and do more.
The site is growing, but still lacks that ability to bring all African music together in one place. There are mostly Nigerian music and videos on the site, which brings the question: Is ‘Afriville’ actually an African music/video sharing site?
Besides, a look at Afriville’s Alexa traffic details shows that almost 60% of user traffic comes from Nigeria, while the rest is spread between the UK 13.4% , US 11.0% and Kenya 8.9%. In fact, TLC Studio, a blog that monitors and criticizes Web 2.0 sites in Africa thinks that Afriville is “using the African card to gain members”.
What is your own opinion?
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Entry Filed under: Social Media & Networks, Web 2.0. Tags: african music, afriville, alexa, facebook, myspace, nigeria.
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stouffer | September 26, 2008 at 12:04 pm
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EVELYN THOMPSON | March 31, 2009 at 5:37 pm
HI, my name Evelyn, I feel very happy to be a part of afriville.I;m really anxious to see and learn more about our cultural . I;m you and you,re me
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EVELYN THOMPSON | March 31, 2009 at 5:43 pm
HI, my name Evelyn, I feel very happy to be a part of afriville I;m really anxious to see and learn more about our culture . I;m you and you,re me
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amdiblackmc | June 22, 2009 at 4:34 pm
may almighty strengthen ua media more 4 all africans, we are very proud of u.