<h3>Conglomerate Media: No Room for in a Democracy </h3> <h3>Specific purpose: To persuade my audience to use other sources for their news and information besides mainstream media.</h3> <hr /> <p>Our new conglomerate media is limiting our news and sanitizing our wars and disasters</p> <p>A video called Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4">Learn what is really […]
Redouble efforts to manage Forest and Wildlife Resources
Story: Daniel Nana Aforo The outgoing president of the Ghana Institute of Foresters GIF, Mr.Kweku Prah Ghartey, has challenged his colleague foresters to redouble their efforts on the management and sustainability of forest and wildlife resource in the country. According to Mr. Ghartey, the state of the country’s forest and wildlife today […]
Zimbabwe: A Land Of Plenty?
Zimbabwe: A Land Of Plenty? By Kudzai Chimhangwa Imagine waking up and wondering whether you will be able to go to work because of unpredictable transport costs. Imagine being speculative on whether your family will be able to buy essential products like sugar, bread, soap and cooking oil because they can only be […]
Home sweet home
A review: On reviewing this entry I came to the conclusion that this is (loosely speaking) a review of a town. My home town in fact. I’m not one for critiquing swelling metropolises (nor hamlets for that matter), but there’s a first for everything. Wikipedia is a multilingual web-based free content encyclopedia, which surprisingly contained […]
IFEX condemns killing; death threats vs Filipino journalists
Politics has again ruled its ugly head on the just concluded Philippine elections by threatening journalists who were assigned to cover the local election in Mindanao, with bodily harm. The threats were coursed through the text messages sent to the journalists’ cellphones. But one of them was not lucky enough to evade the bullet that […]
Pen Pal writing-the art of writing and learning about the world
Pen pal writing is one of the most prolific hobbies around. You can make a new friend or even find a new love through the art of exchanging letters. People who engage in this hobby usually find out new and interesting things about countries they’ve never been to and it’s like you’re getting exposure to […]