“The mentoring culture needs to come back to our newsrooms,” said Ernest Sungura, executive director at Tanzania Media Fund, while addressing journalists at the World Press Freedom Day Conference in Arusha May 3. The theme of this year’s Arusha conference…
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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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Posted in op-ed
From Accra to Arusha: A journalist’s journey across Africa
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…
Tagged with: Ghana, South Africa, malawi, tanzania, accra, farm radio international, Arusha, #media, #RightsMedia, JHR, Journalists for Human Rights, Children's Radio Foundation, Zodiak Radio, ZBS Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa, Adam's adventures, A journalist's journey, press freedom, journalism, RSF, Reporters Without Borders
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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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Posted in Print
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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Rights Radio Report #4: Ghana
Farm Radio International works in Africa to help empower rural families and farmers, using radio. In Ghana, the organization launched a project to help improve farming techniques and is building local programming in the north to educate Ghanaians about the…
Tagged with: benjamin fiafor, canada, farm radio international, farming techniques, Ghana, ngo, radio rurales
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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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Posted in Radio
Plastic is the scourge of Africa
Yesterday, the BBC reported Mauritania’s environment minister is planning to implement a ban on plastic bags in the West African nation. A bold step. Not all plastic, I assure you, but small, thin plastic bags. The ones you receive from…
Tagged with: Africa, digital dumping ground, Ghana, op-ed, opinion editorial, plastic, scourge
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