Who Gets To Tell The Story? - "Africa The Hopeless Continent"!
The just-completed Global Reporting Summit organized by One World Media on 12.20.21 with the Theme: “Who Gets to Tell The Story ?” was one of the most brilliant conferences I’ve attended this year, bringing key global issues to the table. It was my first time meeting and listening to Moky Makura a Middle East Contributor and CEO of Africa No Filter . I really admired how insightful her speech was and it left me extremely inspired. Moky spoke about “How influential the media is in creating and changing narratives”. Once I saw the topic I didn’t think twice before buying the ticket to attend the event because I felt this was one interesting issue that needed to be talked about more often. Moky began her speech with two interesting questions: When I say Africa, what comes to your mind? What influences your perspective about Africans? And she went ahead to highlight, based on her organisation’s research, some factors that influence the way people think and speak about Africa; they i