Africa Media Bias Seen through Coverage of Covid-19

Africa Media Bias is some­thing that we often talk about. COVID-19 is mak­ing that dis­cus­sion rel­e­vant again.  The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic has brought human inge­nu­ity to the fore. The sit­u­a­tion has sparked a remark­able resur­gence in the human spir­it as peo­ple all over the world are striv­ing in an inspir­ing bid to empha­size man’s most pri­mal instinct,…

Five African Nations Battling Covid-19

The news is full of bad reports about the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic which is wreak­ing hav­oc all over the world. With a vac­cine at least months, if not a year away, there is cause for some opti­mism in the fight against the dis­ease in the African con­ti­nent. As we have been track­ing how nations are dealing…

The Transformation of Africa Post-Independence: Malcolm Newton

Today we bring to you Part 3 of Africa Agenda’s Cel­e­bra­tion of World Press Free­dom Day in 2019: A dis­cus­sion about media issues impact­ing jour­nal­ists in the African con­ti­nent.  Greet­ings to our all of guests in the Unit­ed States and around the world.  Lessons to be learned: Stu­dents must learn the ethics of the pro­fes­sion of…

Be Careful What You Share on Facebook: Professor Ben Bongang

Today we bring to you Part 2 of Africa Agenda’s Cel­e­bra­tion of World Press Free­dom Day in 2019. Greet­ings to our all of guests in the Unit­ed States and around the world.  Les­son to be learned: High-qual­i­­ty news is impor­tant News man­agers must make a clear dis­tinc­tion between report­ing and opin­ion writ­ing Africans must learn to separate…

African Journalists Must be Fair: Professor Luka Powanga

World Press Free­dom Day, 2019 ‑Part 1 Ahead of the 2020 World Press Free­dom Day on May 3, today we bring to you Part 1 of Africa Agenda’s Cel­e­bra­tion of the event in 2019. Greet­ings to our all of guests in the Unit­ed States and around the world.  An inter­view with Dr. Luka Powan­ga of Reg­is Uni­ver­si­ty Duration:…

2020 World Press Freedom Day Celebration

The 2020 World Press Free­dom Day is on Sat­ur­day, May 3. This day is man­dat­ed by UNESCO (Unit­ed Nations Edu­ca­tion­al, Sci­en­tif­ic and Cul­tur­al Orga­ni­za­tion) as a day to put press free­dom issues into focus — to edu­cate our com­mu­ni­ties about the impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion that free and inde­pen­dent media plays in soci­ety.  As an orga­ni­za­tion, we’ve had…

Trump’s Latest Immigration Ban Targets the African Continent — Again

  On April 22, U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed, as he promised, an exec­u­tive order ban­ning immi­gra­tion into Amer­i­ca for 60 days. At the core of the move is the sus­pen­sion of the issuance of any new green cards to immi­grants into Amer­i­ca. This lat­est move comes as the Unit­ed States is in the midst…

African Nations Fight Covid-19 Despite Socio-Economic Conditions

In ear­ly Feb­ru­ary, while West­ern coun­tries like Italy and Spain had record­ed con­firmed cas­es of the dread­ed nov­el coro­n­avirus or Covid-19, Africa, the sec­ond-largest con­ti­nent and home to more than a bil­lion peo­ple had yet to record any. This left many dumb­found­ed. The good news led to the rise of a bunch of fal­la­cious ideas…

COVID-19 Fallout: Africans Angry, Doctors Rebuked, Trump Defunds WHO

In the ever-increas­ing news around Covid-19 or the coro­n­avirus, a lot is hap­pen­ing. It’s hard to keep track of every­thing. Even while plen­ty of good things have hap­pened in the midst of the pan­dem­ic, such as how peo­ple are cop­ing with the virus, it’s the ones that cause unnec­es­sary pain that has gained the most…

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Russian Trolls in Ghana, Nigeria — What CNN Got Right and Wrong

If you are an avid con­sumer of inter­na­tion­al news you may have seen the sto­ry that Cable News Net­work aka CNN ran recent­ly about Russ­ian trolls in Ghana and Nige­ria. This sto­ry is espe­cial­ly rel­e­vant for the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment as it relates to the issue of med­dling in its elec­tions by for­eign enti­ties. But…