Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections
Posted in African stories worth telling, Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2010
We just added this story along with the images taken by Richard Mulonga in Lusaka. The story is about an organization called Alive and Kicking Zambia which, in Richard’s words, “The company makes hand-stitched leather footballs that carry health messages on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. They are durable, educational and recreational. Alive and Kicking also […]
Posted in African stories worth telling on Nov 24th, 2009
Mark Namanya is a Ugandan sports journalist who attended the Twenty Ten Allstar training in Egypt. Ahead of his visit to South Africa next week for the FIFA World Cup draw, he reflects on what his impressions had been before he’d visited the country, and to what extent they had been shaped by the ‘Western […]
Posted in October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 7th, 2009
By Emmanuel Kele Twenty-four young African Journalists from twelve countries of Africa have concluded their Twenty-Ten World Cup media coverage workshop in Cairo, Egypt. The workshop brought together a genuine united Africa from South Africa, Angola, via Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Liberia, Ghana, and many other countries from the continent. The one week workshop which […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2009
The thirteenth Highway Africa conference finished on a note of celebration last night. As we all head home, I mull over the messages that came out of this gathering of African media people – journalists, academics, NGOs and students. Apart from all the usual themes one would expect from a conference such as this – […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 8th, 2009
David Larsen in Accra, Ghana. Well Ghana won convincingly and what a colourful event it was! The celebration of winning over Sudan was heightened by Mali failing to win over Benin outright which pushed Ghana through to becoming the first African team, outside the host nation, South Africa, to qualify for the first African World […]
Posted in Tools for African journalists on Sep 7th, 2009
I’m sitting at the launch of Highway Africa, the world’s largest gathering of African journalists. This year the theme is 2010, Development and Democracy and of course the focus is next year’s FIFA World Cup. Last night MTN hosted us to a sneak preview of the Port Elizabeth stadium, which has not only already been […]
Posted in September 2009 on Sep 4th, 2009
I am here in Accra with 11 print journalists from Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe and 12 photojournalists from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa – 23 in all from 13 countries. We are using the 2010 Fifa World Cup qualifying clash between Ghana […]