A number of African journalists from different media houses across Africa have been selected as Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals ‘disability and inclusion fellows,
These journalists were selected after a rigorous call for application and shortlisting process that lasted for about three weeks. These fellows will go through hybrid training and mentorship sessions as well as story writing and news gatherings ethics around Disability and inclusion reporting son they can all add value to this crucial beat that is missing in many of the newsrooms.
Disability and inclusion reporting, raising the voices of the marginalized in the society is an initiative of Africa Foundation for Young Media professionals which is now jointly host with Centre for Disability and inclusion Africa.
“Since there is no justice or inclusive society without diversity, it has become important for the media not to leave behind over a billion humans with disabilities around the world. Today we found out that the media is not given attention to disability and inclusion issues. The problem is, most media houses do not have data to write great story or do not understand the urgency associated with leaving this huge population behind.”” Yinka Olaito, Executive director of Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals said in his release.
“Africa Has its own larger share of these one Billion People so there is an urgent need for the media to be empowered to do its job in this area. This has created a need for African journalists to rise up to this challenge and someone must stand up to equip them for ethical professional coverage of this. Hence the institution of this fellowship.
The beneficiaries of this six months’ fellowship are:
Ojo Precious
Mojoyinoluwa Precious
Olamide Oluwaseyi Akolawole
Dare Akogun
Adua Yusuf Oyetunji
FEMI ESAN
Fawaz Adebisi
Blessing Udeobasi
Tobi Adetunji
Oluwatobi Ayinde
Taiwo Adeyemi
Olusola Oludiran
Aminah Salako – Adekunle
Funmilola Afolabi
Osungbohun Ajibola Elisha
Ismahil Abefe Tiamiyu (Jare Tiamiyu)
Samuel Ogunsona
Ebunoluwa Olafusi
Emmanuel Oluwadola
Taoheeb Babalola
Hadiza Abdulrahman
Sami Tunji
Hannatu Suleiman Abba
Isaiah Ude
Fatima Zahra Muhammad
Rita Durumi
Berikisu Iye Abdullahi
Joy Gadani
Aliyu Muhammad Babayo
Benedict Ifeanyi Ukwu
Lois Abba Sambo
Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye
Haruna Solomon Binkam
ENOBONG EKWERE
Beloved John
JOY AJIFA ADEJO
Christopher Tolulope Ojo
Mohammed Taoheed
Ojoma Yussuf
John Bodza Ghana
Juliet Akoth- Kenya
Ruth Omar – DRC
Awien Rose- Kenya
Brenda Hol-Kenya