Hodan Nalayeh was the founder of Integration TV, a platform she set up so that she can change the narrative of Somalia in the news. She was killed in an Al-Shabaab bombing today, alongside her husband, and leaves behind two children. I was fortunate to interview Hodan in March for our podcast Her Media Diary….
It’s time to ditch the stereotypes and cover persons with disabilities as equal members of society who are more than their disability, writes Jackie Lidubwi People with disabilities experience inequalities across many aspects of society. They are often denied access to opportunities available to their non-disabled counterparts. A UN writeup on disability and the…
Video games have taken on a new life with social media and live streaming services. But in North Africa the world of tournaments and gaming content is just beginning to really heat up. MENA girl-gamers are also attracting more notice. Three of them sat down with AWiM News to give insight into the community along…
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…
Three years ago, three university students were at the cusp of their journalism careers, looking forward to starting their journeys in newsrooms in Zimbabwe. However, they met with unforeseen roadblocks. Nicole Kurebwasweka couldn’t get placement for the industrial attachment unit of her journalism course at the University of Zimbabwe. The production department of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation turned her down, saying they…
View on Zencastr Eugenia Abu is a distinguished broadcaster, author, media consultant, and one of Nigeria’s finest broadcasters and compères renowned for anchoring the 9:00 pm news on the Nigerian Television Authority for seventeen years. In episode 24 of Her Media Diary podcast, Dr Yemisi Akinbobola had the honour of speaking with Eugenia Abu, a…
Let women lead! This feature delves into how the trends of negative societal perception toward young women’s participation in politics are as old as the existence of democracy in Northern Nigeria. Hon. Anna Bitrus who emerged as the only female among the four supervisory councillors in Biu Local Government Area, of southern Borno, assumed the…
Labour migration in Africa is closely connected to industrialisation. As more tasks and economical activities are automated, replacing humans with robots and artificial intelligence, labour migrants will face various vulnerabilities. Moreover, increased competition in the labour markets of the countries they migrated to is likely to affect perceptions towards migrants. In this issue, we look at: How automation…
Each year, during the annual African Women in Media Conference, female journalists drawn from the continent are allowed to pitch stories in the five categories to organisations that have partnered with AWIM to create a platform for female journalists and other media practitioners to engage and discuss key issues of the day. The AWIM Pitch…
Anthony Rotolo, a professor from Syracuse University is offering the Dr. Who Class, an adventure for students who want to go through space and time exploring the cultural impact of the BBC series Dr. Who Rotolo calls the course an “un-class” as it is not officially a course offered by the university, although students can…
Betty Sunday is a sad woman. She sits in silence as she ponders over reports she has heard from local radio stations. She is wondering what is likely to happen as an outcome of the Jonglei Canal that the government plans to resume digging. According to Ms Sunday who is also a woman representative, these…
Imagine a life of hopelessness, a life with no shelter, sleeping on the streets in the cold, sleeping door to door. That is the life of a person without a home. The land is a very important and sensitive resource for people in Uganda. The competition for land among the growing population is leading to…
