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    'I Feel Like My Entire Race Has Been Disrespected'—Model Adut Akech Responds to Image Blunder in Australian Magazine
    News
    26 August 2019

    'I Feel Like My Entire Race Has Been Disrespected'—Model Adut Akech Responds to Image Blunder in Australian Magazine

    "I feel as though this would've not have happened to a white model," said the South Sudanese-Australian model after an image of another model was published alongside her interview in Who magazine.

    Read Niren Tolsi’s Full Ruth First Memorial Lecture: ‘Fire and Media: Towards a New South African Journalism’
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    19 October 2018

    Read Niren Tolsi’s Full Ruth First Memorial Lecture: ‘Fire and Media: Towards a New South African Journalism’

    He used fire (as a metaphor) and actual reporting on fire on SA newspapers and websites to interrogate the state of journalism in the country.

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    I Have a Problem With Big Narstie's Big Black Clown Routine

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    100 Women: Kay Oyegun and Angelica Nwandu on The Power In Our Words
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    28 March 2018

    100 Women: Kay Oyegun and Angelica Nwandu on The Power In Our Words

    The founder of the Shade Room, Angelica Nwandu and filmmaker and TV writer, Kay Oyegun discuss staying true to their points of view, and the power in being allowed to fail.

    For The First Time Ever, A Trans Woman Covers Cosmopolitan South Africa
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    For The First Time Ever, A Trans Woman Covers Cosmopolitan South Africa

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    South Africans Call Out Biased Coverage of White Corruption
    News
    12 December 2017

    South Africans Call Out Biased Coverage of White Corruption

    Steinhoff CEO, Markus Jooste is just one example. Is South African media lenient towards white corruption?

    The Future is African: How this Web Series is Bringing the Real Africa to the World
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    09 August 2017

    The Future is African: How this Web Series is Bringing the Real Africa to the World

    #AfricanintheMedia is a new web series that aims to disrupt the current narrative around Africa and Africans

    In Conversation with Sarah Diouf on Her Fashion Label 'Tongoro' and Being a Young African Creator
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    18 July 2017

    In Conversation with Sarah Diouf on Her Fashion Label 'Tongoro' and Being a Young African Creator

    The self-identified "child of Africa" speaks about her creative process and some of the challenges she's faced as a young African designer.

    Meet the Zambian Radio DJs Who Could Play a Pivotal Role in this Week's Presidential Election
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    09 August 2016

    Meet the Zambian Radio DJs Who Could Play a Pivotal Role in this Week's Presidential Election

    'Hope and Chi' have spent eight stormy years on air as the megaphone for Zambia's voiceless.

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