Ugandan editor wins International Press Freedom Award; wanted by police back home

By Sean Jacobs | 21 November 2008

Today Ugandan editor Andrew Mwenda was awarded a Committee to Protect International Press Freedom Award. Meanwhile back in Kampala police summoned Mwenda for questioning over his magazine’s hard-hitting political coverage.

AfriPod

By ACAS | 29 September 2008

Peter Alegi, a historian based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, like most Africanists, was frustrated with the way media cover African topics. So he took matters into his own hands utilizing new technologies.

West African journalists fight back

By ACAS | 29 September 2008

The Committee to Protect Journalists (which has a dedicated Africa-page on their website) has an update on media developments in West Africa.