Here are the places where people like my blog the most:
- 5.71 Sierra Leone
- 5.18 Malawi
- 3.99 Barbados
- 3.48 Uganda
- 3.46 Trinidad & Tobago
- 3.37 Jamaica
- 3.01 Black America
- 3.01 Guadeloupe
- 2.74 Bahamas
- 2.62 Ghana
- 2.26 Martinique
- 2.16 Nigeria
- 2.11 Zambia
- 1.90 Kenya
- 1.88 Suriname
- 1.83 Zimbabwe
- 1.72 Guyana
- 1.65 Atlanta, Georgia
The numbers come from Quantcast.com. The 5.71 for Sierra Leone, for example, means that Internet users in that country are 5.71 times more likely to visit my blog than Internet users in general.
I was surprised I do so well in Africa. I have never even been to Africa. Why should my blog do so well there?
Look at how I do in the parts of the old British Empire (where most Internet users would know English):
- black:
- 3.48 Uganda
- 3.46 Trinidad & Tobago
- 3.37 Jamaica
- 3.01 Black America
- 2.62 Ghana
- 2.16 Nigeria
- 2.11 Zambia
- 1.90 Kenya
- 1.83 Zimbabwe
- mixed:
- 1.63 America
- 1.56 South Africa
- Caucasian:
- 1.18 Britain
- 0.97 Canada
- 0.77 White America
- 0.68 New Zealand
- 0.67 United Arab Emirates
- 0.60 Australia
- 0.59 Pakistan
- 0.53 Ireland
- 0.34 India
- 0.25 Israel
- East Asian:
- 0.22 Singapore
- 0.20 Malaysia
- 0.10 Hong Kong
First come the black parts of the old empire, where I do well, then the mixed parts, where I am still good, but then comes the rest where I wash out.
Note: Because there are so many more white people on the Internet than blacks, whites, even in reduced numbers, probably still outnumber blacks among my visitors. But most whites are not that interested and pass on by. I see that in who leaves comments, who comes back and who links to this blog: mostly blacks, not whites, so far as I can tell.
Some of the French-speaking world:
- 3.01 Guadeloupe
- 2.26 Martinique
- 1.31 Ivory Coast
- 0.85 Senegal
- 0.71 Haiti
- 0.71 Rwanda
- 0.67 Djibouti
- 0.44 Burkina Faso
- 0.34 France
- 0.29 Gabon
The Portuguese-speaking world:
- 0.81 Mozambique
- 0.34 Brazil
- 0.27 Angola
- 0.27 Portugal
And some Spanish-speaking countries:
- 0.67 Puerto Rico
- 0.37 Dominican Republic
- 0.32 Mexico
- 0.18 Spain
- 0.09 Columbia
- 0.09 Argentina
- 0.06 Peru
Even among people who do not speak English, I still do better among blacks in general than among whites.
It is clear from all this that my audience is shaped by two things: language and race.
My main audience is the black English-speaking world – not just Black America but also the West Indies, Anglophone Africa and Black Britain. It has at least 150 million people, more than Russia, but as far as I know it has no name.
They say the Internet destroys distance and it does: I do as well in Uganda as in Jamaica.
I wish there were some profound, subtle and interesting reason for all this, for why I do so well in countries I have never been to, like Uganda. In fact, the reason turns out to be extremely simple: Most hits on this blog go to my posts about beautiful women. Those who speak my language (English) and share my taste in women (black) will, of course, enjoy those posts way more than other people.
With that in mind, I can read the list at the top of this post the other way round: they are the places where people most closely share my taste in women. So if I travelled all over the world, I would find no place with such beautiful women as Sierra Leone.
See also:
I love your blog. Thanks for putting this information out there. It’s no surprise to me that English-speaking Blacks and mixed race people love the blog.
Apple-pie, sundown town Americans don’t like your blog, Ann’s nor mine because we provide the alternative to mainstream spin and lies. They just don’t want their comfort-zones disturbed. They prefer to be in darkness and in false bliss, as in ignorance is bliss type of mind.
Stephanie B.
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Like your topics and I am learning a lot. Thank you!
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Thank you. I am glad you both like it!
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I think you do so well with Africans because it seems that you are very knowledgable about the world outside of America, or at least a bit more then the average American. When I first read your blogs I got the impression you had to be someone that got around, especailly in Africa. I actually remember wanting to ask you about that… I wanted to know how you got to travel so much, so you could put me on ya kno. But congrats on your success in the motherland dude… perhaps your blog is will become one of those few bridges Africans Americans have with Africans.
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I wish I were that well-travelled!
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I stumbled upon your blog and I like it a lot. I was born and raised in the U.S. but my parents are both from Sierra Leone, lol, I was surprised that we were number one. Go figure. Yay, “Salone”!
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Ah ah ah! Abagond, your explanation about us African guys being lured into your blog by your posts about black women makes sense. Yet I believe it’s your posts about race that make us come back.
This said, the present post is 2 years old. It seems there has been some evolution in your audience. According to the ClustrMaps at the right side of this page, Sierra Leone has been dethroned by Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya.
It would be interesting to have a “2010 update” post.
I disagree with Alonzo when he says you have a good knowledge of Africa, but as I’m going chronologically through your articles, I notice a positive evolution in the way you depict our continent. It’s appreciated.
It’s a great blog you’ve got here.
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I agree: seeing a 2010 update would be interesting (thought I believe you already did it:
It’s a similar thing, right?)
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Yet I believe it’s your posts about race that make us come back.
I think it’s true, yes. Don’t forget, majority of his commenters are females- and I guess they’re not as interested in posts about hot women. So there must be something else that attracts visitors, and those are posts about race.
Also, I bet there are many whites who visit this website for posts on hot women, but there are only a few whites who stay and post their comments (which, I guess, shows whites are not as interested at talking about race).
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Thank you, Mira, for the Traffic on this blog link.
Somehow I missed it.
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I’m white (well, mixed with a culturally insignificant amount of Canadian Indian). I find this blog very interesting and insightful, especially on issues of race, culture, history, language, etc. The author is a great writer, the best I have ever seen on a blog. I’m reading through all of the posts; I am only on 2008, but I have learned so much already and am going to subscribe. I think La Reyna is right, that some of the ideas presented here may shatter the comfortable worldview of many white people. Specifically, it may force them to think about how they are racist (as it has done for me).
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You attract quite a following.
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