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 Jan 22nd, 2010
Michael Nsubuga spent some time with the fishermen on the shores of Lake Victoria, one of Africa’s great ecotourism destinations, and found that football fever has found its way here. See all the images here.
Posted in African stories worth telling on Dec 3rd, 2009
Another story from the Twenty Ten Allstar journalists is Mohamed Abdou‘s photo feature about football at Egypt’s iconic Pyramids of Giza. Purchase the full story from Africa Media Online. “Football is the most popular sport in Egypt” says Abdou. “Children, boys and young people love it and can even be found playing it in the [...]
Posted in African stories worth telling on Dec 2nd, 2009
The Twenty Ten Allstar journalists are continuing to deliver fresh stories from across Africa – and none more surprising than the photo feature by Stephen Mudiari Kasabuli in which he showcases young elephants playing football in Kenya! “The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is a centre that mainly cares for orphan elephants. It is based at [...]
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 African stories worth telling, Twenty Ten progress on Nov 13th, 2009
The warm night air here in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, invites us away from our workstations, but I see very few people lounging by the hotel’s poolside. The 33 French ‘Allstar’ print, photo and radio journalists that have converged from all parts of Francophone Africa for this, the final Twenty Ten training module, are [...]
Posted in October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 20th, 2009
Lagos is a city to behold! It took me 4.5 hours to fly from Lagos to Nairobi last Tuesday. The previous day I had gone to see Emeke Izeze, MD of The Guardian and Gbenga Adefaye, Managing Editor of The Vanguard Newspaper in Lagos. I had left The Vanguard at 3:30 pm to take a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
Greetings from Lagos in Nigeria. We have had a productive week here. We are being hosted by Adeboye Ola and his team at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in a suburb called Ogba on mainland Lagos. Above: Downtown Lagos on Lagos Island is surrounded by a ring of highways. The longest bridge in Africa, [...]
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 October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 1st, 2009
The Egypt workshop has just drawn to a close and Dominique landed back in South Africa today. In the meantime the Africa Media Online team has been hard at work getting the output of the Twenty Ten project spread far and wide. We have put them up on the features page of our own web [...]