View on Zencastr Comfort Mussa is a prolific, multi-award-winning Cameroonian journalist with over 15 years of experience covering underreported stories, with a special focus on issues affecting women and girls. Comfort’s story speaks to all women out there who experience any form of chastisement for speaking up for themselves and refusing to conform to social…
View on Zencastr Annonciata Byukusenge is a multimedia journalist with 12 years of experience. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communication from the University of Rwanda and a certificate in Media Management from Women in News. She has worked with a number of media houses and NGOs including rwandanews24 and theforefrontmagazine. In this episode, Annonciata talks about her…
View on Zencastr Annie Zulu is an accomplished freelance journalist with a remarkable career in the media industry spanning over 7 years. She has earned numerous awards for her outstanding contribution to Journalism. Her focus is on investigative stories that are often underreported, particularly those that address issues affecting women, children, climate change, and the…
View on Zencastr Marverine Cole is a multi-award-winning broadcaster and journalist with over 30 years of experience working as a reporter and news anchor for the UK’s leading media stations including the BBC She has produced several radio documentaries, including Black Girls Don’t Cry which earned her ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Mind Media Awards in…
It was on a sunny Saturday afternoon in the city of Lagos, Nigeria when Ms. Hannah Sampson ran into a former male colleague while on the field for a production she was working on at that time, after exchanging pleasantries and with a cheerful smile still on her face, she informed him she is…
Ms Vivian Chime is a multiple award-winning climate reporter and the head of the climate desk at ‘The Cable’ a Nigerian-based online newspaper. She speaks to AWiM News about her childhood dream of telling community-focused stories and how fate led her to her dreams which she is now living through climate reporting. ____ It is…
View on Zencastr Verah Okeyo is an award-winning journalist, communications manager, and media trainer with over ten years of experience covering global health with a focus on maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and underrepresented communities. In this episode, Verah shares her journey from her childhood to the newsroom while battling with clinical depression. She…
View on Zencastr Qaanitah Hunter is a multiple award-winning journalist and political editor at News24, South Africa. She is the author of ‘Balance of Power: Ramaphosa and the future of South Africa’ and recently co-authored a book called ‘Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma unrest that set South Africa alight’. In this episode, Qaanitah…
View on Zencastr Moyo Thomas is a news reporter and strategic communications specialist. Describing herself as a humanist and a womanist she is a sexual and gender-based violence advocate fighting for women’s rights, security and safety. In this episode, Moyo Thomas discusses the representation and presentation of sexual harassment and gender-based violence in Nigerian media and the cultural…
African Women in Media is set to launch a media fellowship for women journalists in Nigeria and Kenya to improve the media representation of young women politicians in the two countries. This was revealed by Dr Yemisi Akinbobola, the CEO and Co-founder of the organisation during a panel discussion on the second day of the…
Hundreds of women from different countries and organisations across Africa and the diaspora have convened in Fez, Morocco to participate in the 6th annual African Women in Media conference. The conference themed: ‘United in Action’ aims to devise ways of achieving gender equality in and through the media using collaborative efforts of media experts, academia,…
A flip through the pages of a typical Nigerian newspaper is sure to feed one with several reports of increased mortality rates caused by poor healthcare facilities, outbreaks of diseases due to poor access to clean drinking water, and extreme erosion caused by poor drainage systems among others. This is despite the fact that every…
