Adam Bemma

  • Media Literacy Talks for Tanzania’s Youth

    I’m on the back of a boda-boda motorcycle taxi, heading uphill, when my driver, Nuru, points out the drive-way leading to the house of Tanzania’s former prime minister and current presidential hopeful, Edward Lowassa. Not even five seconds after we pass the turn off the tarmac ends, turning into a bumpy, dirt road. The air…

    Adam Bemma

  • Tanzania: Intercropping and companion planting get results

    Just three kilometres south of Arusha’s dusty, congested streets, the village of Engo Sengiu sits at the end of a long, bumpy dirt road, surrounded by fertile farmland. The village’s rutted roads are bordered everywhere by lush, green vegetation invigorated by the recent rains. John Melau-Laizer grew up here studying his father’s planting techniques, the…

    Adam Bemma

  • Tanzania: Fifty years of farming cooperatively – an experiment in agricultural production

    Pius Hayuma bends down and uses his bare hands to dig in the soil of his shamba, or small farm. Beans and maize plants are sprouting all over his one and a half hectares of land, which border northern Tanzania’s Ngorongoro forest and the Rift Valley. Mr. Hayuma, 54, says: “I remember when this land…

    Adam Bemma

  • Tanzania: Wise Women Farmers Adapt to Changing Times

    On the slopes of Mount Meru, Grace Marko feeds her cows by placing grass and water directly into their trough. This method of zero grazing, in which she keeps her livestock in an enclosed, shaded area, means her cows remain healthy, produce an abundance of milk, and do not overgraze her pastures. There is an…

    Adam Bemma

  • 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 an end many years ago in North America. Across Africa, the idea to be payed…

    Adam Bemma

  • The slum series – Voice of Kibera

    NAIROBI, Kenya — Kibera is known as Africa’s largest slum. It’s located in Nairobi, Kenya and home to a new media renaissance. Featuring the voices of Vincent Achuka, editor and journalist at the Ghetto Mirror, Sande Wycliffe, programmer at the online news platform, Voice of Kibera, and Douglas Namale, founder and editor of Mtani Insight…

    Adam Bemma

  • Albertan finds adventure on impromptu African epic on the back of an inexpensive scooter

    Fifty years after a young Che Guevara crossed South America on the back of a motorcycle nicknamed La Poderosa (The Mighty One), a Canadian decided to traverse Africa on a Chinese-made scooter nicknamed Anne Murray. The Alberta-born Brendan Van Son, 29, is a travel enthusiast, photographer and social media entrepreneur who provides travel advice, hostel…

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  • #RightsMedia report: Providing #justice and protecting #humanrights in #Africa

    The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) is a law society working to protect the rights of Africans across the continent. Based in Arusha, Tanzania, PALU is involved in cases before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. PALU was a part of the legal team representing Reverend Christopher Mtikila in his precedent-setting case against…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia report: #Africa ‘s #humanrights court of #justice

    The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights was established in Arusha, Tanzania by the African Union (AU) to protect human rights across the continent. In its almost 10 years of existence (began in 2004) it delivered a 2009 judgment against Senegal inadmissible, and most recently ruled in favour of Reverend Christopher Mtikila in his…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia story: A loving hand for disadvantaged Tanzanian kids

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — “I thought Africa was a country,” says a 16-year-old girl as she slathers a wall with cement. “Are you serious?” another girl asks. “Did you think Tanzania was a city, or something?” Obviously the teen never gave Africa much thought before arriving in Arusha to work as a volunteer on a project…

    Adam Bemma
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