Who am I?...What kind of a writer does that make me?

We are all born with different talents wether it is singing, dancing or running, we all have our talents. Growing up I did a lot of sports and my mother always use to think I would make it as a professional ballet dancer, since id been doing it for eleven years now. But one odd day I was bored at home and my brother decided to borrow me his novel collection to keep me busy. I read through these novels every day till addiction point. After months of reading non stop I decided that this is what I wanted to do forever. I wanted to write like the authors who wrote all the novels I read. I wanted to change people’s lives, involve them in my reading and change the whole perspective that reading is boring. With writing we can change the world one article, book or poem at a time. This is why we decided to start the blog ABABALI.

Ababali which means writers in IsiZulu was given this name because we want it to represent not only Rhodes but South Africa as whole. This will be a platform for Africans to display and share their work with readers or writers from all over the world. Our blog will be a platform for people to post and comment on different writers work. The blog will also come as a helping aid to all the journalism students at Rhodes who are planning on applying for journalism two. By posting their work for others to comment on they will be receiving free advice on their writing. Journalists are seen as gossips or people who earn money for digging into people’s lives, but this is not true. Being a journalist is about uncovering the truth, about telling the story and about informing the public about the world around them

Ababali is not really just for journalists or journalism students; it is for all aspiring writers throughout the world. Unlike most of these other blog we will use informal language and try to keep our other readers not only those who are writers involved. Because our blog is about student writers and them displaying or sharing their work with others it is important to keep the blog as casual as possible. By doing this we try to make the participating writers free to post their work without the fear of being judged. Our blog is not about critiquing each others work but simply about giving each other tips on how we can improve our writing.
By Ofentse Gomba