JUBA, South Sudan – “I enjoy doing the radio program because it makes me feel like a journalist. I would like to learn more about journalism,” said 18-year-old Internews trainee, Riak Akech. “There are many things I don’t know. By talking to…
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My Community, My Radio, My Mahad: The story of a Juba IDP settlement
Tagged with: Africa, audio, Boda Boda Talk Talk, Communicating with Communities, community media, conflict, CwC, development, displaced South Sudanese, humanitarian information, ICT4d, ICTs, Information Communication Technologies, Internews, Juba, Kakuma refugee camp, kenya, Mahad, Mahad IDP settlement, media development, memory cards, My Mahad, People in Need, radio, SD card, South Sudan, Terre des hommes, training, War
Posted in Photography, Print, Radio
Posted in Photography, Print, Radio
Saving Tanzania’s Underground Hip Hop Scene
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jun 18 2014 (IPS) – Inside a dark, cramped, music studio on Arusha’s hillside slum of Kijenge Juu, a thumping hip hop beat rattles the window-less room. A soft-spoken 26-year-old who goes by the name Raf MC steps up…
Tagged with: African hip hop, Arusha, development, Kijenge, KINGS, music, Ngalimi, S.U.A., Saving Underground Artists, Sekei, slums, tanzania, Tanzania music, underground hip hop
Posted in Print
Posted in Print
Tanzania: Radio Plants Seed in Farmers’ Minds
Sitting in traffic can be tedious. But 53-year-old businessman Loiruki Mollel uses the time to listen to the radio. He tunes in to Kilimo chetu [Our farming] on Radio Maria 89.1 FM as he manoeuvres his way through traffic in…
Tagged with: agri-business, agriculture, dar es salaam, development, Dickson Mhoro, Farm Radio Weekly, kilimo chetu, Loiruki Mollel, nutrition, OFSP, Orange fleshed sweet potato, our farmers, radio, Radio Maria, tanzania
Posted in Print
Posted in Print
#WorldRadioDay: a time for change
Radio is a tool for development and social change around the world. It’s widely accessible, relatively cheap and very simple to use. According to the United Nations, or UN, radio reaches 95 per cent of the world’s population. In sub-Saharan…
Tagged with: #WorldRadioDay, change, Children's Radio Foundation, development, farm radio international, gender equality, Journalists for Human Rights, radio, tools, UN, UNESCO, women's empowerment, World Radio Day
Posted in Print
Posted in Print
Catching a break in Nairobi: How two Canadian freelancers covered the Westgate mall shooting
Two recent Canadian journalism graduates, dreaming of careers as international journalists, caught the break of a lifetime landing a fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada. Wanting to combine her passion for journalism and travel, French journalist Flavie Halais applied…
Tagged with: Aga Khan Foundation, attack, canada, Canadian media, Carleton University, Concordia University, David Meffe, development, Flavie Halais, international fellowship, kenya, montreal, nairobi, shooting, siege, Westgate mall
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Posted in Print
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