In local Ugandan parlance, Christmas is "eaten". One of my spiritual mentors says of the so-called festive season, “We feast when we should be fasting”.
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The "culture of silence" journalists so often refer to is really a "conspiracy of silence", preventing a known problem from being publicly acknowledged.
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S. Dji, a young Cameroonian entrepreneur, says she is living proof that faith in God alone can cure HIV. Health workers, however, prefer a program of faith plus antiretrovirals.
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In the secrecy of Cameroon's homes, mothers are torturing their daughters with grinding stones and even hammers heated over hot coals in hopes of delaying the onset of womanhood.
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For young Cameroonian girls, illegitimate pregnancies mean social and economic devastation, leading them to seek dangerous, illegal abortions from unlicensed sources.
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This conference will look to the future of nations still in the shadow of the genocide years, and it will evaluate past and upcoming elections from a media perspective.
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The patriarchal nature of African society extends right into the newsroom where male journalists are given pride of place over females, regardless of competence.
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This experience of capturing images and insights in the lives of immigrants inspired one journalist to dig deeper into the stories in her home country of Cameroon.
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Corrupting ‘brown envelopes’ pollute everything they touch. And they mutate. Their dynamics vary from one beat to another, from the lower cadre to the high echelon of a news organization.
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Veteran reporter Richard Ihediwa describes how learning the craft of documentary film making in South Africa will enhance his reporting upon his return home to Nigeria.
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