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Zimbabwean wins CNN African Journalists Awards
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23 of Africa’s best journalists and media practitioners have been honoured at the 13th edition of the prestigious CNN/Multichoice African Journalism Award held in Accra, Ghana. Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Rugoho- Chin’ono was adjudged the overall African Journalist of the Year for his TV documentary on the everyday challenges of people living with HIV/ AIDS in Zimbabwe. His ‘Pain in My Heart’ documentary beat 1911 other entries from a record 44 nations across the continent. Ghana’s President J.A Kufuor presented Hopewell him with the Award and in his acceptance speech, he said “The recognition this award gives me goes a long way to improving journalistic standards for many colleagues who are working under very difficult conditions”. He also urged everyone to pray for his country so that its leaders would put the country first instead of parochial interests. He also won the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS reporting.
In all, 23 finalists were honoured. Israel Laryea of Joy FM in Ghana won the Radio General News Award while the Environment Award went to Emmanuel Mayah of Nigeria. The rest of the award winners were Deji Badmus (Nigeria) - TV General News Bulletin; Peter Moyo (South Africa) – TV General News – Current Affairs; Barbara Angopa (Uganda) – Arts and Culture Award; Marjorie Copeland (South Africa) – Best Feature in Consumer Magazine; John Grobler (Namibia) – Economic and Business, and Richard Mgamba (Tanzania) – Print General News.
Others were Fernando Lima (Mozambique) – Portuguese Language General News; Mutwiri Mutuota (Kenya) – Sports Award; Evaline Ngono (Cameroon) Tourism Award; Koumoureoua Issa Napon (Burkina Faso) the electronic category of the Francophone General News Award. The winner of the Health and Medical Award was Bamuturaki Musinguzi (Uganda); Boniface Mwangi (Kenya) won the Mohamed Amin Photography Award while the Free Press award went to Seyhoum Tsehaye of Eritrea, whose wife received the prize because Seyhoum is in jail for daring to report that some journalists and politicians he previously met in jail were incarcerated without trial.
The glitzy ceremony was held at the Ghana State House and the special guest of honour was His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor. May be next year I will win one. LOL
One Response to “Zimbabwean wins CNN African Journalists Awards”
Boimah Q. Outland says:
July 28th, 2008 at 7:46 am
I am a Liberian citizen. I will like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to Multi ChoiceAfrica for this year’s African Journalist Award. I will like to recommend to the organizers of this laudable initiative to consider the inclusion of journalists from other African countries who are striving to uphold the tenents of journalism in their respective countries.There are lots of professional journalists in my country-Liberia for example, who I would like to see honor for the tremendious effort they continue to exert in highlighting the plight of the masses and exposing the ills in society.
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