The best kinds of lists are the subjective ones – much like the best blogs, writes arts and culture editor Zodwa Kumalo-Valentine.
The best kinds of lists are the subjective ones – much like the best blogs, writes arts and culture editor Zodwa Kumalo-Valentine.
Louis Philippe de Gagoue is a personal shopper, model, stylist and fashion blogger with a vibrant, quirky and deeply cool fashion sense.
Unless you use algorithms or some or other number-crunching system, lists – like the one I’m about to share with you – are always subjective. SA Blog Awards, African Blogger Awards and others are highly sought-after accolades by all accounts, yet organisers and conveners still deal with accusations that their awards are unregulated, unfair and rigged, among other criticisms.
Sour grapes? Well, obviously. If you work hard at your craft, garner a huge following, make lots of money from associations and campaigns and have an enviable webfluence, how disappointing not to be acknowledged for that.
It’s always interesting to peruse the list of nominees and winners of these awards, and while the winners deserve the applause, the best kinds of lists are the subjective ones – much like the best blogs. They display a clear point of view (whether it be fanciful or frivolous), have a particularly pleasing aesthetic and show the ability to share or tell a story by offering a fresh perspective through images and/or words.
For the purposes of this list, the aforementioned are the criteria used for including the selected blogs – the overarching criteria being that the bloggers/platforms are based in Africa. There are bound to be many I have left out.
From the list of 11 bloggers, we focus on 2 based in Cape Town. See the full list in the M&G
Lovers of vintage – boys and girls – will love Cape Town-based bestie bloggers Emily and Liza of I Heart Your Outfit, who offer gorgeous vintage finds in great condition through their I Heart Vintage shop.
Cape Town-based Diana Moss of Miss Moss fame has created a handy city guide for out-of-town and not-plugged-in lovers of food, drink and shopping called Cape Town City Guide. She describes the space as what she’d tell her friends to see and do in Cape Town if they asked her for recommendations.
Cape Cape Town City Guide
via Mail & Guardian
