Journalism Now Qualification

A guide for journalists: How to tell better stories about Africa

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to help you take a fresh approach to your own storytelling. You’ll learn how to source and write stories about where you live in Africa and be guided on how to develop a different style of storytelling away from the political, male-dominated news where nuance, accessible language and a human face is all too often missing. Why is it important? Many journalists in Africa are trying to change the one-dimensional narrative that is too often portrayed of an entire continent by international news organisations and, in many instances, by African media itself. This course offers an opportunity to be part of the change; to tell the untold stories through the eyes and lives of ordinary people, and give them, your audience, agency in their own narrative.