Afrigator.

December 4, 2007 8:09 AM

Afrigator.An Africa Aggregator.
posted by chunking express (42 comments total)

I wish my connection was fast enough to be able to read all of those links, but I'm still on crocodile-up.
posted by ColdChef at 8:37 AM on December 4, 2007 [4 favorites]

I'm still on crocodile-up.

Check a few posts down: you need something written in Python.
posted by jquinby at 8:47 AM on December 4, 2007

Kenya get an upgrade?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:49 AM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

N'djamena cable modem?
posted by the sobsister at 8:51 AM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

ColdChef, Djirebouti?
posted by anthill at 8:57 AM on December 4, 2007 [3 favorites]

I'd say upgrade to DSL because it's almost as fast as a cable modem, but I'm in denial.
posted by cog_nate at 9:02 AM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Al Gore just hasn't been to Africa for long enough, I guess.

(sorry, all the good jokes were taken.)
posted by DNL at 9:06 AM on December 4, 2007

Benin this thread too long already—got Togo.
posted by languagehat at 9:06 AM on December 4, 2007 [2 favorites]

Fine, languagehat, just leave the rest of us here to Gab on.
posted by cog_nate at 9:15 AM on December 4, 2007 [2 favorites]

I got an email from an African business who said he would pay me handsomely but it turned out Egypt me. (Not that I would admit it--I'm in the Nile.)
posted by DU at 9:18 AM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Jesus fuck stop you fuckers.
posted by dersins at 9:27 AM on December 4, 2007 [3 favorites]

Aw come on, dersins. Let's see that beautiful Somalia!
posted by ORthey at 9:35 AM on December 4, 2007

Since everyone's just going to continue to Gabon about this nonsense, I have to request that someone Senegal my way--I'm lonely over here.
posted by dead_ at 9:36 AM on December 4, 2007

Please stop with the name puns, Uganda make dersins mad.
posted by found missing at 9:38 AM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Eritrea, what?! I'm so confused. Antananarivo!!
posted by dead_ at 9:40 AM on December 4, 2007

Just what are you Ghana do about it, dersins?
posted by cog_nate at 9:41 AM on December 4, 2007 [2 favorites]

Now only if there was a Mefite named Chad who could get in here to make this thread a bit more eponysterical.
posted by dead_ at 9:43 AM on December 4, 2007

I took too much gandas inin and outout in Ugandaland.

Very high noise to signal ratio. Most of the Uganda posts are pr0n. Am I missing something?
posted by Skygazer at 9:43 AM on December 4, 2007

(Just kidding of course, dersins. But I always thought you were Tunis to get so Accravated over stuff like this.)
posted by cog_nate at 9:43 AM on December 4, 2007

I have this in the Africa tab of my Google home page. Also informative: Global Voices Sub-Saharan Africa (Global Voices is basically an aggregator with translators, run by Harvard, to let English speakers peek into the non-English speaking blogs/media).
posted by gsteff at 9:44 AM on December 4, 2007

Just for dersins: NORTH AMERICA
posted by DU at 9:44 AM on December 4, 2007

Just what are you Ghana do about it, dersins?

Burundi am I Chad to Mauritius? What can I Rwanda Seychelles that's South Africa than the São Tomé and Príncipe you have already Mozambique upon Central African Republic by this Lesotho use of the Burkina Faso of Guinea-Bissau, the Nigeria?
posted by dersins at 9:48 AM on December 4, 2007 [6 favorites]

worst haiku ever
posted by found missing at 9:49 AM on December 4, 2007

Keep it up, dersins. You're just Tripoling my fun.
posted by cog_nate at 9:53 AM on December 4, 2007

In this thread are the Moroni of Metafilter.
posted by dead_ at 9:57 AM on December 4, 2007

Chungking, this needs to have a NSFW tag. There are a lot of crap links to bogus blogs.
posted by Skygazer at 9:58 AM on December 4, 2007

Fails on Principe.
posted by ersatz at 10:00 AM on December 4, 2007

Dis. I guess I just clicked on a few good ones.
posted by chunking express at 10:33 AM on December 4, 2007

If anyone doesn't like this thread, you Congo away.
posted by ORthey at 10:45 AM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

This thread is why elephants cry.
posted by LordSludge at 10:58 AM on December 4, 2007

What African bunch of Bouars.
posted by CynicalKnight at 11:05 AM on December 4, 2007

I would say something interesting about the link provided but Republic of Congo. Fuck, this is harder than it looks.
posted by jonson at 12:02 PM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

GGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP IIIIIIIIIIIIT!
posted by lalochezia at 12:16 PM on December 4, 2007

Su dan easy to pun in here.
posted by adamvasco at 12:38 PM on December 4, 2007

Al Gore just hasn't been to Africa for long enough, I guess.


There was too much controversy regarding a dangling Chad.
posted by rhizome23 at 1:27 PM on December 4, 2007

Although dersins of MetaFilter are many, whimsy hasn't Ruanda thread for me yet. Unless Zaire from the mods, I'll continue to ad-Libya hear? Namibia few more before we go...
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:46 PM on December 4, 2007 [2 favorites]

Oman, what other mefis are in Africa right now besides me ?

(ok, ok, it's a bit more of it the middle east, but gambia a break ?!)
posted by fizzix at 3:17 PM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Hey. There's a mefite's blog listed there...!!!
posted by ramix at 4:11 PM on December 4, 2007

Niger, please.

sorry
posted by jquinby at 5:26 PM on December 4, 2007 [2 favorites]

Kin Botswana make an eponymous pun.
posted by Kinbote at 5:45 PM on December 4, 2007

Niger, please.

What'd Dahomey say?
posted by languagehat at 5:48 PM on December 4, 2007

You guys are cracking me up!
posted by ramix at 6:12 PM on December 4, 2007