Adam Bemma

  • Tanzania: Radio’s young, aspiring reporters

    Daudi Frank enters Radio 5’s Arusha studios wearing a baggy turtleneck sweater. His trousers are stained with dirt, his plastic sandals caked with mud. The sixteen-year-old squeezes in his thin frame beside other young people from the youth outreach group Mkombozi [Saviour]. Linus Kilembu is the host of the radio program Mlango wa watoto [Children’s…

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  • Journalists for Human Rights Face New Challenge in East Africa

    Years of experience working with journalists in West Africa could not prepare Canada’s media development organization, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), with what would happen next in East Africa. Written by a former JHR Tanzania media trainer. ARUSHA, Tanzania – Canadian journalist Chris Oke never thought when he accepted a position at Journalists for Human…

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  • #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 Africa, radio is the most important medium for communication, as millions of Africans tune-in to…

    Adam Bemma

  • Kenya: Successful Young Entrepreneurs Attracted to Farming by Social Media

    Daniel Kimani did not think much about farming when he was growing up. But he has become a national figure since he started fish farming. Mr. Kimani has been featured on Kenyan radio and television. The 29-year-old from Kenya’s Nyandurua County, about 150 kilometres northwest of Nairobi, graduated from university with a diploma in engineering.…

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  • ‘Fahari Yangu’: The Pride of Agricultural Radio in Tanzania

    ARUSHA, Tanzania – A large, yellow, wind-up, solar radio crackles as farmer Esther Mbwana tunes it into her favourite radio station. “I love the Fahari Yangu farmer program. I listen every week,” she says as she spins the dial and stops on 105.7 FM, Arusha’s Radio 5. Mbwana is a 48-year-old mother of three from Poli village, located…

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  • South African documentary filmmaker talks gentrification in JoBurg

    South African documentary filmmaker, Arya Laloo, talks about gentrification in her Johannesburg district, Jeppestown. Laloo is co-director of the 2013 film Jeppe on a Friday. Named one of the best African films of 2013 by the U.K. Guardian newspaper.

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  • RightsMedia report: @MJ93fm Empowering girls with education in Tanzania

    A feature story by Mambo Jambo Radio 93.0 FM Arusha’s Rotlinde Achimpota. Airing Aug. 22, 2013 on MJ FM’s Matukio ya siku program. Shukuru means to give thanks in the Swahili language. The organization’s pilot project is run in a village near Moshi, Tanzania teaching girls how to raise and care for chickens to finance their…

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  • #RightsMedia doc: #Lengo means #goal in #Swahili

    28-year-old Tanzanian Emanuel Saakai founded Lengo Football Academy in Arusha. Over the last six months Saakai has been training street kids from his home village of Ngaramtoni to play competitive soccer. This community development work is being done without regular funding. The few donations Saakai has received for Lengo has gone straight to feeding and…

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  • #RightsMedia report: A wild hope for #Maasai women in #Tanzania

    Faith Benson Moshi works with the Arusha-based Wild Hope Artisans Project, which is run by Wild Hope International, a U.S.-based NGO. This project empowers Maasai women by helping them sell their crafts, mainly beaded necklaces, around the world. This, in turn, helps these women send their children to school and avoid harmful cultural practices like…

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  • #RightsMedia report: Indigenous #art and #culture in #Arusha

    Located inside the historical Arusha Declaration Museum, near the Uhuru monument, there’s a small workspace for Tanzanian artists and students. The ACAA – Arts and Cultural Association of Arusha – provides studio and gallery space for indigenous artists from Arusha and other nearby regions in Tanzania. Featuring the voices of Seth Kenguru, a renowned painter;…

    Adam Bemma
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