[Imc-g8-2005] African community media activists and community radio journalists meeting

[Anarcho Babe]

Hia,
 there is the opportunity to meet with African community media activists 
and community radio journalists on Saturday, 30th of April, 3.30 pm at the 
studio of Leith FM, 17 Academy Street
Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7EE.
Please come as the African Community Radio Activists would be quite 
disappointed with a low turn-out.

 Jolene from Leith FM invites the activist and community radio scene to 
meet the women:
"Big group of African women journalists with the help of a charity called 
Africawoman, developed by Lesley Riddoch who is going to get more involved 
with us during broadcast, are here as guests and they are coming to meet us 
at studio to find out what we do, and how we can link up with their radio 
stations accross Africa."
 For more information about Leith FM visit:
http://www.leithmediaworks.com/
 Thanks Ulla
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 Also here is the Press Statement as plain email text:
 Africawoman Press info - 28.4.05
Jack McConnell presented with African kilt to wear at G8 summit
 Seven Africawoman journalists are currently in Scotland as guests of Jack 
McConnell and will present a braided African kilt and goats head sporran to 
the First Minister at 1pm today (Thurs) in the Scottish Parliament. 
Africawoman co-ordinator Florence Machio from Kenya said, “ We hear Jack 
McConnell has no luck with kilts. This special African kilt and sporran 
will bring him luck, remind him of Africa and give him the courage to tell 
G8 leaders to Make Poverty History.”
 Bus and rail transport this summer may face disruption because of the 
Gleneagles summit. But passengers and ferry users can sit out the jams 
reading African women’s words in the biggest papers of the year -- thanks 
to Fair Trade pioneers, Café Direct, entrepreneur, Tom Hunter the Scottish 
Executive & the Scottish Co-op. They are sponsoring 3 editions of 
Africawoman -- written by African and Scottish women journalists to be 
distributed across Africa, and on public transport, libraries and Oxfam 
shops across Scotland in June and July.
 The African edition – sponsored by the Scottish Executive – will examine 
the links between Scotland and Africa and includes an interview with Jack 
McConnell. It will be distributed round parliaments, embassies and leading 
development charities in Africa and Malawi before the First Ministers visit 
to that country in late May.
Two further editions of 3/400 thousand each will be published in Scotland 
and distributed on bus, train and ferry routes on June 11th and June 25th — 
sponsored by Café Direct, and Make Poverty History (through the generosity 
of Scots entrepreneur, Tom Hunter) with support from the Scottish Executive 
& Scottish Co-op.
 Africawoman – founded in 2000 by Scottish journalist Lesley Riddoch – is 
written by women from 8 African countries meeting “virtually” via the 
internet. The paper is available on www.africawoman.net every month.  Now 
those Africawoman writers are joined by Scottish students from the 
Strathclyde Journalism School and journalists from the Glasgow Herald. 
There's an exclusive interview with Bob Geldof about his filming in Africa 
and hopes for G8 progress -- news about the creation of e-money from the 
fastest growing mobile phone market in the world (Africa!) – Nobel Peace 
Prize winner Wangari Maathi on the need for African leaders to apologise 
for corruption and an interview with the young Nigerian lawyer who saved 
Amina Lawal from death by stoning -- how to haggle in markets (an exclusive 
guide from the African expert) -- and why mosquito nets haven’t arrived in 
Tanzania despite Sharon Stone’s million dollars raised at the G7 Finance 
Ministers meeting. NOTES

1.Pictures of the kilt presentation by PA will be on the wires after 2pm 
2.Contact Lesley Riddoch for further info/ contacts for Africawoman writers 
currently visiting Scotland as guests of Jack McConnell. 3.The Africawoman 
(AW) project  http://www.africawoman.net – is a monthly webpaper, training 
and radio news service written by 100 women journalists from Kenya, Uganda, 
Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Cameroon.
4.AW has also produced special live editions at the Earth Summit 2002, the 
Commonwealth Education Ministers meeting in Edinburgh 2003, and the Africa 
Commission meeting in Addis Ababa(2004) 5.“Hard copies” of AW are 
distributed to African MPs, NGOs, 40 newspaper editors, government 
officials, British embassies and other opinion formers with British Council 
backing. “Radio versions” are sent by email to 120 community radio stations 
& 100 million listeners via Community Radio partners AMARC. 6.Worldwoman is 
the parent Scottish based charity which set up and administered Africawoman 
as a project.  It was founded by Lesley Riddoch in 1998. AW is now a Kenyan 
based NGO. Lesley Riddoch is Executive Editor.
7.First Scotrail, First Bus, Lothian Buses, and Cal Mac have agreed to 
distribute the paper – with other transport operators to confirm. 
Scotland’s libraries will distribute the paper along with One World and 
selected Oxfam Shops.


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