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‘Sudanista!’: A Non-Fiction Reading list for The Sudans
Tagged with: books, Books about South Sudan, books on The sudans, Emma's war, Reading list, South Sudan, Sudan, The Sudans
Posted in op-ed
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Kenya’s Community Reporters
NAIROBI, Kenya – I believe in the power of community media to transform communities. In my home country, due to the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change program from the 1960s to 80s, marginalized Canadians came together to…
Tagged with: community media, Ghetto Mirror, Kennedy Odede, kenya, Kibera, Mathare, Mathare Radio, media development, nairobi, Shofco, Wairimu Gitau
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Posted in op-ed, Photography, Print, Radio
India: Prayasam’s endeavour into Calcutta’s slums
KOLKATA, India – “When I first visited the slums…The community became my canvas and the children became my paint brushes and colours,” said Amlan Ganguly, founder of Prayasam (Endeavours) to me during an interview on the balcony of his home and…
Tagged with: #mediadev, Adobe Foundation, agents of change, Be the change, Calcutta, children's rights, Each one teach one, Grassroots Film Studio, human rights, India, information technology, IT, Kolkata, Mark Tully, media development, Nazrulpully slum, New Town bridge, No Full Stops in India, Prayasam, Rishi Aurobindo squatters colony, Sector 5, slums, The Daredevils, The Revolutionary Optimists, underprivileged children
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Radio Boda-boda goes the extra mile to serve listeners
Rural radio broadcasts reach some of the most remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa. However, when FRI Tanzania staff visited the farming village of Engare Nairobi west of Mount Kilimanjaro, it became clear that people there were unable to receive a radio…
Beep4Weather: Forecast and Farming advice available on-demand in Tanzania
With weather patterns shifting due to climate change, farmers need weather-related information they can count on. Luckily, their mobile phones can help them get it. “Utabiri wa hali ya hewa” (Swahili for “Beep for Weather”) is a radio and mobile phone service for…
Tagged with: agricultural information, climate change, farm radio international, ICT4d, ICTs, tanzania, the Hangar ICT and Radio Innovation Lab, weather forecasts
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Afric-lit: An Afro-centric non-fiction reading list
I was recently asked to make a list of books on Africa. When I asked if it was to be a list of fiction or non-fiction, the response was “both.” But, for space and time’s sake, here’s a not-by-any-means comprehensive…
Tagged with: Afric-lit, Africa: Altered States Ordinary Miracles, Afro-centric reading list, Dark Star Safari, Dead Aid, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I write what i like, Journey without maps, King Leopold's Ghost, long walk to freedom, My traitor's heart, The Shadow of the Sun, The State of Africa
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Dreams of Abyssinia: A ‘forenji’ in the former Ethiopian Empire
Forenji is an Ethiopian word, in the Amharic language, which means foreigner. I arrived in Addis Ababa on Dec. 20, due to spend my entire Christmas holiday traveling to the north of the country and back before New Year’s Eve – Dec.…
Tagged with: 16th century castles, Abyssinia, Addis Ababa, Arat Kilo, Bahir Dar, coffee, ehtnographic museum, Ethiopia, Federal Republic of Ethiopia, Gondar, Harar, Hotel Taitu, Lalibela, lion of judah, lucy, macchiatos, martyrs museum, national museum, Piazza, Red terror, rock-hewn churches, the Derg regime
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The New Payola: Brown Envelope Journalism in Africa
Payola is a bribery scheme made infamous in the American music industry, paying radio station disc jockeys to put particular songs on the airwaves to gain popularity and, ultimately, sell records. This ethical violation and illegal practice was put to…
Tagged with: Africa, African Union, anti-corruption, brown envelope journalism, cash for coverage, corruption, DR Congo, ethical dilemmas in journalism, Ghana, governance issues, kitu kidogo, le coupage, media ethics, media in Africa, Poynter.org, press freedom, press junkets, soli, tanzania, Well Informed Journalists Make Well Informed Citizens
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Pikipiki Diary: A Bodaboda Guide For East Africa
Pikipiki = motorcycle. Bodaboda = motorcycle taxi. It all starts with a bus, to take me out of my comfort zone and into new adventures and surroundings. I left Arusha for Nairobi last September, taking a few weeks to travel…
Tagged with: Bodaboda, East Africa, kenya, motorcycle taxis, pikipiki, pikipiki yangu, Rwanda, tanzania, travel, Uganda
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A Visit to the Cemetery of Polish War Refugees in Tengeru
I stepped off the dala-dala mini-bus along the highway and immediately felt the intensity of the blazing mid-day sun. It’s not ideal to do any strenuous activity in the afternoon in Tanzania, but today I was on the hunt for something a little…
Tagged with: Arusha, Arusha Times, caretaker, Cemetery of Polish War Refugees, grave site, immigration, Jared Knoll, Livestock Training Institute, Poland, Second World War, Simon Joseph, SpeakJHR, T. Jared Knoll, tanzania, Tengeru, World War 2
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