23 July 2003
Zanzibar International Film Festival
Last July Zanzibar was dominated for two weeks by the annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF). Its objectives are to promote social and economic growth in the region through cultural productions. In addition, it wants to spotlight the Dhow culture. Has the festival so far succeeded in fostering her objectives?
23 July 2003
Angola - Media liberation in low gear
Now that the civil war has come to an end at last, the media enjoy a little more freedom of action. René Roemersma, parttime based in Angola for NiZA's Media Programme, explains how NiZA works within this new situation.
23 July 2003
View – hardly your ordinary magazine
New: View, an inflight-magazine that intends to give flighttravellers to Africa a better perspective on the continent. A'Eysha Kassiem, one of the journalism students that produced it, describes the magazine and the exchange-project it derived from.
23 July 2003
NiZA should make a video
NiZA's workshop on creative capacity enhancement, could not be properly described in words. However, on NiZA's kind request, Jeanette Minnie wrote a column about it: NiZA should make a video.
23 July 2003
Community radio, its power- its danger
How do radiostations deal with their influential position? It was one of the essential questions in the debate 'Media and Freedom'. Faiza Abrahams-Smith, director of the South-African National Community Radio Forum, Jonathan Marks, creative director at Radio Netherlands and Peggy Burke from diaspora station Radio Mart in a discussion on community radio.
23 July 2003
Zapiro: demonising Mugabe
