This blog has grown! It now has an average of 170 visitors daily (!) from around the world.
The Top 15 Visiting Countries so far this month are:
Netherlands
Switzerland
Australia
United Kingdom
Poland
South Africa
Spain
Tonga
Argentine
France
Romania
Canada
I am still wondering “
Niger, where are you!” but I pretty sure the day will come, sey hakuri!
The past month saw 1842 unique visitors who contributed to more than 5000 visits - the record of any month so far. People found their way here through Google & Google images, Facebook, Niger1, Niger Diaspora, the old Ishtar News, Bukefalos (the number 1 Swedish horse forum site, the Wikipedia 2005 Niger Food Crisis page, the Wikipedia Jan Egeland page, the Solar Cooking Wikipedia Profiles page, the Solar Cooking Wikipedia Promoting Solar Cooking page, the Solar Cooking Wikipedia Recipes page, the Solar Cooking Wikipedia Niger page, Technorati, the Expat blog, the Beautiful Africa blog carnival, Bloggportal as well as numerous blogging friends!
The top 3 August posts were:
The Gamzaki Guest House (recently updated)
Copyright Eden Foundation
Hanza and aid prejudice in Niger
Sudanese horse racing in Niger
Top August CATEGORIES:
Favourite posts (the author’s pick!)
Top August Search Keyphrases:
Niger – the country where I work and live
Esther Garvi – needs no further explaining…
Famine food – my newfound hobby
Niger horse race – an older hobby, but not an ancient one
Ishtar – my Nigerien nickname
Sweden – my mother’s country of origin
Sultblöffen – the Norwegian title of the documentary the Famine Scam
Eden Foundation – the organisation that I work for
Miriam Garvi – my sister, who blogs at the Vision Pioneer Blog
Mirriah – one of my top places in the world
Kano (Nigeria) – the closest metropolis
Jan Egeland – one of my favourite persons to blog about since he has yet to take responsibility for his actions
Solar Cooking – a favourite past time
How to prepare for famine – not something I do on a regular basis, but I suppose that growing famine foods in my garden would quality…
Things fall apart – a book I loved and wrote an essay about; also a quote I use a lot as it explains much of the frustration you meet when working and living in Africa
Nerfertiti – my little kitten, who died
Anette Bengtsson – my friend from Varberg (Sweden) who’s now my housemate in Niger
Sofia Öhman – my cousin who visited in 2006-07
Lailatou Amadou Lele – one of the Nigerien athletes who qualified for the Olympics
Experiencing Scandinavia – seeing my countries of origin as an outsider
Maerua Crassifolia – a favourite famine food
Stella Orakwue – an African journalist who’s article was so full of hate that I had to blog about it
Niger Aid – a topic I blog a lot about
Quality moments - when life is at its best!
Boscia Senegalensis – another top famine food, also known as hanza
Stay tuned for more esthergarvi.com statistics!
2 users commented in " www.esthergarvi.com is growing! "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHi Esther. Thanks for dropping by Under the Acacias. Hope you are having a great time in Sweden.
I know what you mean about the lack of time to surf while in Africa… I too am back in the Uk for a few weeks.
Maybe we will bump into each other sometime on some continent or another…
best wishes
Keith
Hi Esther,
I think I can not wait for the challenge. Here we are and will surely participate to this lovely blog. You are doing great (Am From Zinder, leaving in Nigeria)
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