Becoming The Muse

Coffee With WinterABC 2025 Wrapped

If you were having coffee with me, I would welcome you to my tangle of words as as I wrap up my 2025 edition of WinterABC. A digital storytelling festival curated via Afrobloggers.

I have been blogging on WordPress since 2012 which makes this my 13^th year blogging and my 7^th time participating in the Afrobloggers WinterABC. Yes, I have been there from the start, otherwise how could I possibly invite anyone else to be part of journey, I would not dare… gotta walk the talk.

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that a monthly blogging challenge is intense and I tip my hat to anyone, who so much as attempts, to go through this trial by fire. I keep reminding my fellow storytellers, that its called A Challenge and not an easy peasy lemon squeasy… if it were easy, everyone would be here at the finish line… but also its not a race or a competition, it’s a celebration of our voices and shared experiences, in a world where we are told how to tell our stories.

What I have learnt over the years, about WinterABC, is that you have to plan ahead, have a rough idea on the posts you are going to write about, while some more organised content creators create their posts ahead of time, the least one can do is have a guide on what they will write about, which is why WinterABC prompts are released before June begins…

My traffic from African countries increases in June and its because of the WinterABC challenge and its participants. For a month the African blogging space comes alive as familiar and new connections come together and be part of a community they never knew they needed until they found themselves a part of.

I am always happy to see familiar names who have walked this journey with us before and happiest to see the new adventurers, who dare, to try out WinterABC so shout out to the following:

•Write Grace Thrive: Body, Mind & Soul
•Mowabites Worldwide
•The 5am Soliloquy
•Samantha’s Blog
•Candid Narrative Media
•Her Musings: Kindled Thoughts of an Afro-Millenial Soul

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you not to let my seeming ease in the WinterABC fool you into thinking that its easy… I also look at some of the prompts and sweat and say, nope, I am not writing that one.. the hardest post for me this challenge was the feminism prompt which I wrote on The F-word followed by the social commentary one for round about reasons. The rest of my WinterABC2025 posts can be found on button below:

As a blogging uncle, obviously, I should plug you with some of the posts that are still in my head from this edition of WinterABC in no particular order🏆

Joseyhina’s world: Community Becomes A Muse
Penelope Sanyu: Every story has a closing chapter, even this one! Sigh
The Baobab: Takudzwanashe on air!
The Sparrow: The Power Of Storytelling
Bird View: Writing My Way Forward
Dialectics: WinterABC25 – The Mad Blogger Thoughts
Intentionally Beautiful: Feminism Has A Voice
The Loud Introvert: Marriage: Traditional Steps In Zambia
Lindani’s Space: Can I make a living in Malawi as a blogger
Ntomby Writes: Writing Gives Me Wings

You can also browse some of the WinterABC posts via the WordPress reader in the link below.

If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that WinterABC is the crucible through which African Bloggers are shaped, and we are taking back our narrative one blog post at a time… If you see us in the streets do stop by and say hello…

Its always bittersweet getting to the end of June, but now I return to my at least one post a week blogging schedule.

Whats been happening in your neck of the woods?

~B

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