Nigerian feminist blogger wins scholarship to BlogHer '09 conference

Toyin Ajao-Dawodu from Nigeria is so into women blogging she helps run a technology camp for girls in Nigeria coordinated by her organisation, Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre. Together with W.Tech’s Executive Director, Oreoluwa Somolu, she co-facilitated the workshop “Blogs can move the world” at last year’s Association for Women in Development’s Forum on Movement Building. And she blogged away about her experience at the APC WNSP’s “Feminist Tech Exchange:http://ftx.apcwomen.org last November, where she was a participant in the Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Advocacy track.

Now the women over at BlogHer ’09 have honored Toyin along with other activist women bloggers from around the world. What’s more, according to BlogHer attendees, the international activist bloggers panel was the “best panel by far” at BlogHer ’09. Congratulations Toyin!