Okay, I know it’s cliche to travel to Africa and expect to launch my career as an international journalist. But, hey, if it worked out for so many others, why not give it a try? Of course I spent six…
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From Accra to Arusha: A journalist’s journey across Africa
Tagged with: #media, #RightsMedia, A journalist's journey, accra, Adam's adventures, Arusha, Children's Radio Foundation, farm radio international, Ghana, JHR, journalism, Journalists for Human Rights, malawi, press freedom, Reporters Without Borders, RSF, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, tanzania, ZBS Malawi, Zodiak Radio
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Tears from Teshie – Accra, Ghana’s coastal crisis
ACCRA, Ghana — The rape of a 13-year-old girl by a group of three young men from her own village was one of the first reported cases in 2013. Outside of LEKMA hospital in Accra, near the coastal fishing village…
Tagged with: accra, Africa, coastal fishing village, Dr. Leticia Wiafe, Dr. Promise Sefogah, Ghana, gynaecologist, LEKMA hospital, making rape history, Nungua, rape in africa, Tears from Teshie, Teshie, Teshie community clinic
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The proliferation of e-waste in Africa (full length documentary)
Used – second hand- electronics arrive on the shores of Ghana to help bridge Africa’s digital divide. Much of what arrives from North America, Europe and Australia is beyond repair and ends up at an Accra slum known as “Sodom…
Tagged with: accra, adam bemma, Africa, cbc radio, digital divide, digital dumping ground, e-waste, electronic waste, environmental issues, Ghana, radio documentary, slum, sodom and gomorrah, the world this weekend
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Rights Radio Report #5: Making rape history
In an Accra, Ghana fishing village known as Teshie, a local doctor has waged a public campaign to shame village men from raping young girls. The high incidence of reported rapes last year in Teshie gave Dr. Leticia Wiafe reason…
Tagged with: accra, Ghana, joy fm, LEKMA hospital, leticia wiafe, making rape history, teshie nungua, teshie village
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Accra, Ghana: The city of African liberation
“Obruney, obruney! [white man, white man]” the little black girl screams as she runs into the street, arms flailing from side-to-side, as I pass her home. I wave back and immediately my frown turns into a smile. It’s scenes like…
Tagged with: accra, Africa, e-waste, Ghana, human rights, kwame nkrumah, liberation, pravda radio, samia nkrumah, sodom and gomorrah, tro-tros
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Pravda World News Tonight – third edition #PWNT #Africa
The third edition of Pravda World News Tonight hears from former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The international diplomat speaks about his career working to solve conflict around the world. Annan also launched his new book “Interventions: A Life in…
Tagged with: accra, Ghana, guerrilla radio, Kofi annan, pravda radio, pravda world news tonight, war and peace, world news
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Pravda World News Tonight – first edition
The very first episode of Pravda World News Tonight aired Dec. 19, 2012 on Pravda Radio 93.5 in Accra, Ghana. This is Africa’s first independently produced world news program. Featuring an in-depth interview with Samia Nkrumah, daughter of Ghana’s independence…
Tagged with: accra, Africa, amandla, Ghana, nelson mandela, pravda radio, pravda world news tonight, pwnt, samia nkrumah, world news
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Posted in Radio
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