11 Haroun, Dokki Giza
Giza
Giza Governorate
12611
Egypt
- Media
We are a group of Egyptian and African journalists. We launched the Africa Voices website to present a different image of the African continent. We mainly work on four files: immigration, climate change and environment, women, rights and freedoms. We try to shed light on these issues that do not have enough space to express in the mainstream media. In our writing, we rely on the storytelling method, so that each writer from his country presents his personal experience that reflects the reality of the society in which he lives.
Through our project, we dream of being voices emerging from the continent, revealing their aspirations for a better reality and a clearer future, voices spoken by Africans who convey - through their self-narration - the reality of their societies and their transformations.
Our project is to present neglected issues in the media on the African continent, especially climate change, the environment, human rights, and democracy. Our storytelling style helps present these issues in a way that creates interaction among readers. We know very well that readers love stories, especially since ordinary news about countries that may not interest them, may seem unimportant. Through these self-narrative stories formulated with a media style, we try to connect the reader to these issues, and make it as if he is living the same experience as our writer.
Our mission is to create a platform that aims to introduce these issues about the continent, through journalists who express the reality of their societies, through their personal writings.
Impact:
Africa Voices will have a number of positive impacts, including:
• Increasing the visibility of African voices
• Raising awareness of the challenges facing Africa
• Empowering Africans to speak out for their rights
• Promoting democracy and good governance
We worked on many important topics, such as the plight of farmers on the tense border line between Ethiopia and Sudan in February last year and before the Sudanese civil war. Through narrative narration, our writer dealt with the story of a farmer’s family on the tense unmarked border between Sudan and Ethiopia, with attacks by cattle rustling gangs and armed gangs.
Also, we worked on a topic about children whose legs were amputated in Mali as a result of mines placed by extremist groups. We worked on a topic about women in Africa, and we dealt with women in debt in Egypt and their imprisonment for their inability to pay the debt. A topic on the rape of lonely girls in Burundi, as well as a topic on murder due to love in Sudan.
Our work is about fishermen-turned-pirates in the Mediterranean off Tunisia, stealing the engines of refugee boats.
We worked on topics on climate migration from Ethiopia and Sudan.
Our project targets not only Egypt, but the African continent. The goal is to create a platform for independent journalists who are talented in writing in a narrative style to present their communities with their problems and complexities. Therefore, we are trying to raise awareness of the seriousness of issues such as migration and climate change, and their impact on local communities in Africa. In addition to the absent basic needs of women, as well as the suffering they experience.
For our project, we need technical, material and training support to complete our mission. We need to connect with other institutions in Africa to exchange experiences and share work. We need to collaborate with institutions working on the same files that are important to us. We also need special training institutions in writing narratives and dealing with topics such as migration, climate change, and the situation of women.
To obtain technical, journalistic and financial support. Also linking our institution to other institutions working on the same topics, in order to exchange experiences and knowledge and perhaps share work.
Also get the necessary training for our site.