View on Zencastr The 22nd episode of Her Media Diary podcast features Dr Sarah Macharia, a gender equality champion and the global coordinator of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). In the podcast session, she unpacks the slow pace of change despite extensive gender advocacy and training efforts and the need to embrace incremental progress….
View on Zencastr For Her Media Diary, Episode 21, Dr Yemisi Akinbobola chatted with Professor Nancy Booker, the Associate Professor and the Dean at the Graduate School of Media and Communications, The Aga Khan University, Kenya. Sharing important insights, Prof Booker emphasises the importance of culturally relevant mentorship, male presence in their children’s lives, and…
View on Zencastr For our recent Her Media Diary Podcast, Episode 20, Dr Yemisi Akinbobola, the co-founder of AWiM, had an insightful conversation with gender and discourse studies scholar Prof. Lilian Lem Atanga. Professor Atanga, whose research interests lie at the intersection of language, gender, politics, and the media in African contexts, is an Associate Professor…
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…
The lack of trust in constituted authorities, a culture of silence, and an underfunded law enforcement system continue to undermine efforts aiming to bring an end to the under-reported issue of non-physical violence. In this report, FRANSISCA OGAR, ANIBE IDAJILI, JULIET BUNA, MELONY ISHOLA and NCHETACHI CHUKWUAJAH assessed the extent to which these constraints are…
5 December 2023 Kigali, Rwanda The Kigali Declaration on Gender Violence in and through the Media On 1 December, a declaration on media and gender violence was adopted at the African Women in Media Conference (AWiM23). The Declaration addresses both representation of gender-based violence (GBV) in news media content and news media…
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…
The African Women in Media (AWiM) seventh annual conference opened in Rwanda’s capital Kigali on Thursday morning to address gender violence and media. With the theme “Media and Gender Violence”, this year conference focused on the need to unite and set the bar higher in the media’s commitment to address how its reports gender-based violence…
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…
Non-physical abuse against women and girls is one aspect of abuse that is hardly talked about in the Nigerian society for many reasons including the burden of proof for survivors, culture of silence and societal dismissal of its impact. In this first of a two-part report, FRANSISCA OGAR, ANIBE IDAJILI, JULIET BUNA, MELONY ISHOLA and…
Politics is not for the faint-hearted. It is a filthy arena where deceit, propaganda and backstabbing thrive. This feature brings out the challenges women face whenever they try to join politics in Kenya and how to overcome them. To excel in Kenyan politics, one must have a thick skin to withstand the setbacks, deep pockets…
Violence against women in elections This feature story highlights the challenges women in politics in Kenya face during and after elections. It also paints a murky picture of how pre-election violence and post-poll chaos affected women in the Mt Elgon region of Kenya. This story is part of African Women in Media (AWIM)/Luminate Young Women…
