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[Documentary] Remix. Africa in Translation: Cameroon

Remix. Africa in Translation: Cameroon
A five-part documentary series from the former German colonies
by: Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard & Nicolas Grange

The Cameroonian port city of Douala was one of the first places where German representatives signed so-called "protectorate treaties" with local rulers. Cameroon became an important venue for the transatlantic enslavement trade. What role does the colonial past play for the African present? This is the central question of the ReMIX project, for which the producer Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard and the director Nicolas Grange traveled to former German colonies on the African continent.

Includes an interview with George Ngwane of AFRICAphonie.

Leadership Essay Competition 2018

Deadline: 18 May 2018
Open to:  all African citizens between the age of 18 – 25 years old
Award: grand prize of USD 2,000

African citizens between the age of 18-25 are invited to submit an essay for this year’s Leadership Essay Competition organized by UONGOZI Institute.

The competition aims to provide a space for the youth of Africa and the next generation of leaders in the region to contribute to important discussions on leadership.

The competition is open to all African citizens between the age of 18 – 25 years old, to write about their perspectives on leadership as it relates to financing development and transformation in Africa. The essays should respond to the following question:

“If you were an African leader how would you finance development and transformation?”

All essays must be written in English.

AFRICAPhonie Launches Human Rights Guide for Radio Practitioners

About this Guide (Click here to download)
The United Nations Human Rights Council in its Resolution 24/15 of 8 October 2013 decided that promoting human rights training for media professionals should be the target for the third phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2015 -2019). This has not been the case in Cameroon especially with community radio practitioners who cannot gain complete access to training and empowerment of human rights related issues.
The situation is made worse by an already information-poor rural community whose high rate of illiteracy prevents them from reading newspapers, which are sometimes unavailable or too expensive for the people to buy Yet, human rights awareness has in the last couple of years become a critical issue in rural communities in the North West and South West Cameroonian regions with media reports attesting to the fact that more and more people living in rural areas are trapped in court proceedings for human rights related crimes like domestic violence, gender-based violence, land theft, human trafficking, sexual harassment, arson, female genital mutilation, breast ironing etc. The victims often complain of ignorance of the law whereas no one is supposed not to know the law. Due to the radio’s ability to reach a wide audience simultaneously, it is important to use it to educate the rural communities about the relevant national and international laws, which mostly exist in Cameroon in English and French, -languages not easily understood by the grassroots.