Last week, the Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) announced that the voting phase for this year’s Kenyan Blog Awards had begun. The announcement happened at Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi. The nominees were selected by a panel of judges comprising of bloggers and media personalities. The judges this year were Philip Mwaniki, Lynda Nyangweso, Mbugua Njihia, Joel Macharia and Ahmed Salim.
Voting started on 2nd March 2015 and will run through to April 30th 2015.
Commenting on this, Adil El Youssefi, CEO Airtel Kenya said, “We must support the ecosystem around our business & bloggers are part of our ecosystem, we are sponsoring the blog awards this year because we also believe in local content.”
“The Blog content creation in Kenya is growing and this is evident from the increase in nominations and voting numbers over time” said Kennedy Kachwanya, BAKE chairman.
“Relevant content, regular posting and marketing. Through blogging there is now a second force for reporting” said Philip Mwaniki, Daily Nation Editor and a Kenyan Blog Awards 2015 judge.
The Awards reward bloggers that post on a regular basis, have great and useful content presented in a creative and innovative format. The Kenyan Blog Awards 2015 sponsors include Airtel, who are the Gold Sponsors, Hivos Foundation, Intel, Xpose, and X News.
Find out the nominees in the other categories by following this link blogawards.co.ke/vote
