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Review : Afriville Nigeria's social networking site

Posted on | February 8, 2008 | 3 Comments

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Afriville Review

African social network

Afriville is a Nigerian social networking site, which rocks by the way. It is like the African myspace in Nigeria and around. Afriville undisputed in the heavy weight when it comes to African social networks. I covered others like blueworld, jujunation, afrovibe but they all take a bit of a dive in comparison to Afriville.

This is in terms of size, videos available, users and anything else which makes a social network a social network.

To bore you, this is how they decribe themselves

“Afriville.com is a social network, a place to meet friends, look at photos, share content and look forevents happening in and around you.”This is a place designed to stimulate the African man or woman, through the tools of social communication whether its meeting people, sharing opinions on the forum, starting groups on issues important to you, or the soon to be released blogging platform within the site.”

afriville

Afriville
They are using the african card to gain members, which doesn’t seem to be paying huge dividends to anyone by by the way. only about 44 million Africans use the internet, however not exactly regularly. Google has set up shop here, but no one else has noticed anything to do with africa.
What do Afriville think about this?
The problem is there target audience is too small. However I like the afriville video and forums.

I didn’t join, I will later. Maybe.

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3 Responses to “Review : Afriville Nigeria's social networking site”

  1. Karen Lotter
    February 24th, 2008 @ 6:03 am

    African Path now has a social networking component with almost 500 members. It is a pretty good site and it is growing by the day.

    http://village.africanpath.com/

  2. Is Afriville the African Myspace in Nigeria? « StartupsNigeria
    May 2nd, 2008 @ 12:30 am

    [...] 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 [...]

  3. Startups Nigeria » Blog Archive » Is Afriville the African Myspace in Nigeria?
    May 7th, 2008 @ 8:58 pm

    [...] 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 [...]

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