Africans telling Africa's stories
Posted in Twenty Ten progress on Feb 3rd, 2010
So, it’s official: the Twenty Ten Dream Team has been announced! These great journalists from all over Africa will be heading to South Africa to cover the 2010 World Cup, while the remaining Allstars will continue to cover the event from their home countries.
We will feature some more of the Dream Team’s work on the [...]
Posted in African stories worth telling, Twenty Ten progress on Nov 18th, 2009
The focus of the photography mentoring here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where we’ve just finished the fourth module of Twenty Ten’s journalism training, has been on storytelling, rather than merely the technical aspects of the craft.
Gilles Coulon and Michael Zumstein poured their hearts and souls into imparting as much of their knowledge in this area [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in October 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Oct 5th, 2009
A key milestone in the Twenty Ten project has been passed as the first radio features were uploaded to Africa Media Online’s new MEMAT system. These three audio features are the first of the 11 that were produced by the ‘Allstars’ who trained in Cairo over the past two weeks, where they attended key matches [...]
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 [...]
Posted in September 2009, Twenty Ten progress on Sep 14th, 2009
Well the Ghana workshop was completed on Wednesday and everyone dispersed back to their countries all over Africa with World Press Photo, FreeVoice and lokaalmondiaal staff heading back to Europe. The productions from the “All Stars” in the Ghana workshop are being made available for sale online in the features area of Africa Media Online.
We [...]