Online documentation
Catalogue of the exhibition > see here / download here (PDF/28,8Mb)
Press file > download (PDF/7,3Mb)
Educational file > avalaible on 21 october 2009
Interviews with journalists who contributed to the exhibition
The front pages of dozens of African daily papers tell about the changing media landscape : a freedom of press that is often harshly put to the test, wide-ranging political realities, treatment of information that differs depending on the region’s colonial past...
Seven journalists from the written and spoken press testify. They write, speak, resist, de nounce... they are the key players of this democracy un der construction.
Abdou Latif Coulibaly
Abdou Latif Coulibaly is 54 years old and a Senegalese investigative journalist, director of the weekly paper La Gazette, and author of several outstanding books on power including Wade an opponent in power: a booby-trapped political change?
He won the award from the independent NGO Transparency International for his overall work as a journalist. He is also director of ISSIC, a private school for journalism and communication studies in Dakar.
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Alice Hakizimana
Editor-in-Chief at Burundi’s Radio Bonesha FM, Alice Hakizimana is a strong and experienced woman. An interviewer of rebels, she has been helping the Burundian radio stations for 10 years in their formidable commitment to achieving community reconciliation in a country torn apart by war.
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Donat M’Baya Tshimanga
For 11 years, Donat M’Baya Tshimanga and his organisation Journalist in Danger, of which he is Chairman, have been working relentlessly to promote and defend the freedom of the press in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the central African region.
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Sy Koumbo Singa Gali
A journalist in Chad for 17 years and director of her own independent weekly magazine L'Observateur, Koumbo Sy is currently working in Kinshasa as a United Nations Official.
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Moussa Kaka
In 1991, during the first insurgency in the north of Niger, Moussa Kaka was one of the first journalists to arrive on the scene and talk about it. Initially a journalist with Niger’s national radio station, Moussa Kaka was one of the founders of the private weekly publication Le Républicain. He then left this paper to create Radio Saraounia, named after a Nigerian Amazonian queen. It is broadcast in five Nigerian towns and is one of the most listened to stations. He is also a correspondent for RFI (Radio France Internationale), where he gained international fame.
Moussa Kaka was arrested and imprisoned for over a year, accused of plotting against the authority of the State as a result of his interview with one of the rebel Touareg chiefs of the MNJ (Movement of Nigerians for Justice).
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Nicodemus Ikonko
Nicodemus Ikonko, a journalist at the Hirondelle Agency who covered the Rwandan genocide case at the Arusha International Tribunal in Tanzania.
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Ramata Soré
From Burkina Faso, Ramata Soré has been a journalist at L’Evénement (a bi-monthly paper published in Ouagadougou) since 2001. She has a post-graduate diploma in Science and the Environment and a Master in Information and Communication Technology and Science from the University of Ouagadougou. An avid fan of ICT, Ramata became a blogger in 2005, and she regularly receives many prizes for her reports.
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