The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has just announced the launch of the 2018 BAKE Awards. The launch coincides with the submission phase of the competition. The annual blogging competition, which is in its 7th year, celebrates the best of Kenyan blogging.

The competition will begin today, January 11th 2018, where submissions will be accepted in the 22 categories. Thereafter, judges will decide the best 5 nominees from the submitted blogs which will then be voted for by the public. The winners will be awarded at a gala event on May 12th 2018.

  1. Submissions phase – January 11th, 2018 to March 6th, 2018
  2. Judging phase – March 10th 2018 to March 27th, 2018
  3. Online voting – March 28th, 2018 to April 30th, 2018
  4. Winners’Gala event – May 12th, 2018

Last year’s contest saw 10,000 blogs being submitted and 800,000 votes being recorded. Women did well last year with bloggers such as Jamila El-Jabry (lifeinmombasa.com), Maryann Waweru (mummytales.com), Rachael Muthoni (safari254.com), Diana Kaluhi (kaluhiskitchen.com), Rayhab Gachango (potentash.com), Dr Wandia Njoya (wandianjoya.com), Nyawira Mumenya (curveswithstyle.com)  emerging winners.

The awards also witnessed first-time winners Magunga Williams (www.magunga.com) and  Owaahh (www.owaahh.com) clinching the Kenyan Blog of the year and Best Topical Blog respectively.

To submit blogs into the BAKE Awards 2018, bloggers and their fans should visit bakeawards.co.ke/submit.

Check out the history, rules and categories of the awards below.

History – bakeawards.co.ke/history
Rules – bakeawards.co.ke/rules
Categories – bakeawards.co.ke/categories
FAQs – bakeawards.co.ke/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-bake-awards

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The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has just announced the launch of the 2018 BAKE Awards. The launch coincides with the submission phase of the competition. The annual blogging competition, which is in its 7th year, celebrates the best of Kenyan blogging. The competition will begin today, January 11th 2018,...