I Returned to my Country a Stranger

Journalist, Violet Gonda returns to Zimbabwe after 17 years in exile

Nonee Walsh

In August 2000, Violet Gonda left her home country to study for an MA in International Journalism in London. She expected it would be for one year. However, she was to spend the next 17 years in exile as a result of being banned from returning to Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe’s regime. 

But she found that her media work in exile meant that she was not a stranger to many Zimbabweans.

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27 Jun 2017

Scholarships Advancing Media Women

Board awards scholarships to African members

Florence Dallu, an award-winning Kenyan journalist and communications specialist with over ten years’ experience working with both local and international media  is one of two African recipients of IAWRT/FOKUS scholarships for 2017.

Her goal is to be a voice for women and children in Africa, through her writing and multi-media skills.

Carmine Amaro from South Africa has also received support for her media studies in 2017.

24 May 2017

GAMAG Condemns Mexico Murders

Six media murders in 2017

By Nonee Walsh

The Global Alliance on Media and Gender has added its voice to international NGO condemnation of the high murder rate of Mexican journalists.

In May, the broad daylight shooting of veteran crime reporter Javier Valdez from the Mexico City-based daily La Jornada, was followed quickly by the  wounding of Sonia Cordova and the death of her journalist son, Jonathan in a shooting in Autlan, in the neighboring state of Jalisco.They worked on the family run Semanario Costeno weekly magazine.

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