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African women in media: Making waves in radio

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Media Internships,
by Gwyneth Dunsford April 23, 2012
Bridget Nambah

“Mostly ladies are known to be shy … [too] shy to talk in public.” This is a strange declaration from Bridget Nambah, a DJ and talk show producer at Tamale’s Diamond FM. The 19-year-old from Ghana’s Northern Region is fighting her own stereotyping. She has been broadcasting since high school, when she snuck into public [...]

Tagged as: northern Ghana, Radio, Role of the Media, women, women's rights

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Money lending sparks new-found rights for women in Malawi

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Karissa Gall April 16, 2012

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but in Nkalo village it grows near one. In the centre of the village a tree has become the site of new financial freedom and empowerment for local women – an outdoor Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) that is literally taking a grassroots approach to providing women with the [...]

Tagged as: credit, empowerment, loan, malawi, microfinance, money, property, women

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“You are doing great job” : feedback from stakeholder in Tamale

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Media Internships,
by Gwyneth Dunsford April 16, 2012

“How long we waiting?”, Lucy asks, as we sit under a small mango tree. We are sitting outside the Cienfuegos Suglo Specialist Hospital, an obstetrics hospital in Tamale, Ghana and my patience is growing thin. The hospital’s director, Dr. Barnabas B. Naa Gandau, is yet to arrive for the day and it’s already 3 p.m. [...]

Tagged as: Ghana, Health, journalism, success story

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Health Services Workers Union makes inroads in Ghana

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Media Internships,
by Jonathan Migneault April 15, 2012

In Ghana fewer than 10 per cent of workers belong to a trade union. While the minimum wage has almost doubled since 2008, at 4.48 Ghana cedis per day, or about $2.54,  it remains low by international standards. Many workers—especially the large number of farmers in the rural regions—don’t even make the minimum wage because [...]

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Exploitation of Malawi’s tobacco tenants

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Kara Stevenson March 27, 2012
Female tobacco workers on a tobacco farm in Salima, Malawi. Photo by Kara Stevenson.

Eletina Mwale has worked on several tobacco estates since 1985. Currently, she works on a tobacco farm in Salima, Malawi. “I have been in several farms from Kasungu to the northern region. We meet a lot of problems. The water is bad, our children do not go to school and we live very far from [...]

Tagged as: centre for social concern, exploitation, malawi, politics, tenants, tobacco, workers

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Victims of Malawi’s bloody protest speak

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Kara Stevenson March 23, 2012
Mphatso Banda's shows off the bullet wound he got at a protest in Lumbadzi, Malawi. Photo by Kara Stevenson.

July 21, 2011 was an unruly day in Lumbadzi, Malawi – a violent protest paraded through the streets. While some citizens were using the protest to loot shops and pelt stones at police officers, many innocent people were injured. “I started to run, but I felt numbness in my left foot. I realized that there [...]

Tagged as: demonstrations, malawi, protest, victims, violence

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The children of Zion Bata

In Articles, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships, Uncategorized,
by Desiree Buitenbos March 20, 2012

The children of Kachitsa Village, a small village of 1,000 in the northern outskirts of Lilongwe, Malawi, are adamant about their religious beliefs. Mention God and their shy, soft-spoken demeanor converts to self-assurance and poise. These children are members of a church called Zion Bata which preaches that prayer is the only effective method for [...]

Tagged as: Childrens' Rights, religious freedom

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Radio waves inspire change in Malawi

In Articles, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Desiree Buitenbos March 20, 2012

Violet Banda is not your average 21-year-old. A poised, confident and outspoken child rights activist, Banda personifies the power of radio in Malawi. Born to a family of five children, Banda is the only female and the only child to have contracted HIV from her mother who succumbed to AIDS when Banda was just three [...]

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In Malawi when ‘Life’ gets tough, it gets banned

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Karissa Gall March 9, 2012

Saturday night in Blantyre and the drinks are flowing at Mustang Sally’s, a fluorescent bar with a swimming pool centerpiece frequented by ex-pats and a new generation of young Malawians who have money.  The laptop DJ plays LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” for the eighth time of the night. No longer under the strict censuring control [...]

Tagged as: art, censorship, human rights, Lucius Banda, malawi, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, Malawi Censorship Board, music, politics, protest, Radio

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Kidney disease: a ‘silent killer’ in Ghana

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Media Internships,
by Jonathan Migneault March 9, 2012

He says he feels weak. Plastic tubes protrude from his arms and connect to a rectangular machine next to his bed. They are coloured crimson with his blood. Richard Kusi Yeboah is only 15 years old, but he spends 12 hours every week at the renal unit in Accra’s Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. In early 2011 [...]

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