The domain as seen from my profile

At about 2:00PM GMT on September 6, Scorum domains were unavailable as the team had announced earlier of an update that was meant to be a surprise.

I guessed that it was either an update to the editor or the advertising feature.

Viktar guessed that it had to do with the Stats Centre and Fantasy Sports.

Whose guess was right right?

None of us.

In the later hours of the day (4:44pm GMT), it was announced that Scorum was back up.

We checked and voila! We were all amazed at the new domains.

Scorum blockchain is a unique platform that offers a lot of opportunities for sports lovers to add value to the ecosystem and get paid.

Scorum has gone a step closer by having more domains. These allow people to share values related to their communities within a familiar environment.

Africa, a continent with 54 well populated nations also got its own domain.

Due to our massive demand for new innovations, we are known for a remarkable adoption of social media and new technology. This makes scorum.africa domain a potential power house for Scorum.

However, I discovered that since inception, majority of the other domains have been thriving quite well while the African domain isn’t having any activity. It has had only 5 posts since its creation. That’s unlike Africans.

Well, there can’t be a reason without a cause so I’ll go ahead to share my views on why this is so.

Here we go:

1. Although Africa has thousands of well-spoken languages, each group, country, state and tribe has its lingua franca. I’ll list quite a few of them so you’ll see what I mean. In Nigeria we have

i. Yoruba

ii. Hausa

iii. Igbo

iv. Edo (many variants and accents)

v. Pidgin English (broken English)

vi. Urobo

vii. Egun

viii. Ibibio

ix. Tapa and so on

Now let’s leave Nigeria and talk about other countries.

We have Swahili, French Afrique, Afrikaans, and a whole lot more. I've not talked about Ghana, Senegal, Uganda, Mali, Congo, Gambia and so on.

Solution

This being said, there might be need for Africans to start writing in local languages as well as their lingua franca. Here, we speak English, French Afrique, some Dutch, Arabic, and South Africans have their languages too.

If BBC has local news like BBC Yoruba, BBC Hausa and BBC Igbo, then we can make this happen. All we need to do is invite more people to the platform. This will mean my friends in the village who have good phones but speak Yoruba can use Scorum and share in my local language. Same applies to you.

The beauty is, if they can’t blog, they can read Yoruba sports content and use the betting platform when it is done.

2. There are not many Africans on Scorum already so a little marketing needs to be done.

In my opinion, there is the need to take the bounty for partners a little bit above par so as to ensure partners are motivated to do their job.

Scorum team needs to probably need to have a chat with the partners collectively on the topic of offline promotion and rewards.

I have the idea of talking on a local radio station to promote Scorum but the cost for such is quite high when compared to the reward.

Apparently, I am one of the people who take Scorum so seriously so if I can do this, I can make it my daily activity to share Scorum to the World. I have made 2 t-shirts and I’m ensuring I take part in a few bounties to understand them and to be able to explain them to members of my community.

Want to see my t-shirts?

I know the team is trying hard but more needs to be done.

3. We will need more curators in the African domain.

Their tasks will not only be to curate but to ensure that more users board from different countries. I understand that the founders and team at Scorum are working assiduously to give us the best. They are well appreciated and they deserve to be applauded.

4. Africans, we need to interact more with other people on the platform (dotcom domain).

Much respect to sir Izge (he deserves my respect as it is an African thing to do so to your elders) who voted the scorumafrica witness and also takes his time to upvote and drop a comment on everyone’s post despite the fact that he has his day job. He his everywhere.

Also, I must salute the team of scorumghana, scorumnigeria and scorumafrica which I am a part of. The effort is made to read through the platform for quality posts and endorse them. Same applies to users who do the same. I wouldn’t want to mention names so as to avoid favouritism by me. 😊

Although, it is not easy to be online here in Africa due to poor and highly priced internet services which are frustrating, many of us still make the effort to connect and write.

I hope we can try a little bit more to interact with other users on the dot com domain.

We need to also encourage the team with our collective and individual efforts.

Let’s hope that soon, the domain gets massive use and I in person, get to be able to present Scorum more than I have been doing in the past.

Overall, Scorum is doing well and my little SP will make me happy in due timw. 


Viva Scorum, Viva Africa.

Please, feel free to drop your comments as this is not just to be benefit of Scorum Africa’s domain but also to the benefit of all of us on Scorum.