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JOURNALISTS AWARDS 2012- KENYAN JOURNALISTS SHINE!
VENUE: Lusaka , Zambia
DATE: Saturday 21st
July, 2012.
- NIMROD TAABU AND
CHARLES KARIUKI- NTV Kenya
-JOHN MUCHANGI-
The Star Newspaper Kenya: science writer and the only print journalist from
Kenya, he won the HIV/AIDS reporting award. The award remained with the Star
Newspaper for a 2nd year consecutively, after the Star’s journalist
Fatuma Noor won it in 2011. Muchangi won for his story “Inside the Life of a Nairobi
Inside the life of Nairobi male sex workers
As the globe marks World Aids Day today, we take a look at the growing population of male sex workers in Kenya
Mantulli System 25, wears bright makeup and colourful clothing every evening and then heads to work. He struts into an inconspicuous pub near Kirinyaga Road in Nairobi where he orders two beers and waits. This is yet another promising evening. “You see, you people condemn us during the day but at night you are our clients,” he says.
Mantulli has been a sex worker for eight years now having escaped home at 18 years after his family disowned him. He is Taita, but prefers to use his “business” name to hide his real identity. He is among hundreds of young male sex workers in Nairobi. Social workers say this is a growing underground population only known to its clientele and a few health officials.
This new breed of sex workers are vulnerable to HIV infections and have come under focus as the country struggles to contain HIV within the 1.5 million Kenyans already infected.
At the bar table, Mantulli is joined by Fabian, his 24-year-old friend. Light-skinned, tall and slender, Fabian also orders two bottles of his favourite beer. “Yes we are here,” says Mantulli in a flattering and gentle voice. He frequently flickers his eyelids, scanning the entire bar. He then twists his lips and says the young men present are all sex workers. “I drink daily with them. Sometimes a client may come here or just send somebody to pick me. About 90 per cent of my clients are married men. I know this because they insist that we pay for a hotel room instead of their homes.”
He adds: “Some of the religious leaders and government ministers who condemn us during the day are our clients at night.” Mantulli says he likes his job. “My brothers hate me a lot, although I usually send money home to help them. I tell them I am a sex worker, not a prostitute.” He grew up in Mombasa where his mother operates a small shop.
Mantulli says he understands his business is risky. Men who have sex with men account for 15 per cent of all HIV infections in Kenya, according to the 2008 Kenya Modes of Transmission Survey. Other studies have shown that among MSM, infection rates could be as high as 30 per cent, compared to the national average of seven per cent.
The National Aids and STI Control Programme (Nascop) fears this high concentration of HIV is finding its way into marriages. The 2007 Kenya Aids Indicator Survey shows nearly half of all Kenyans living with HIV are married couples. Nascop deputy director Dr Peter Cherutich says male sex workers can no longer be ignored although their work is illegal. “We are sensitising hospitals to provide treatment to everyone regardless of their sexual orientation,” he says.
Mantulli says some clients offer more money for unprotected sex. “At such times you take the money.” He says there is plenty of money to be made in Nairobi, compared to Mombasa. “There is more money here. In Nairobi somebody can give you Sh5,000 for one night only. In Mombasa clients usually give you Sh1,000.”
He claims the police and hospitals are their worst enemy. “The police easily identify us because of fancy dressing. They always demand at least Sh1,000 bribes from each of us. If one does not have money, some policemen rape you. If you resist, you’re thrown into the cells and charged in court with a totally different offence like touting,” Mantulli says.
Although there is no legal definition of prostitution in the Kenyan penal code, it is illegal to live off the earnings of prostitution. Same sex intercourse is also illegal and punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
A non-governmental organisation working among sex workers says such legal bottlenecks make intervention hard because sex workers avoid treatment fearing arrest. “As a country we seriously need to consider these groups because they may be the source of most new infections to the general population,” says Job Akuno, a project manager with the National Organisation of Peer Educators.
He is in charge of a programme that offers health education to 2,000 male sex workers and 12,000 female sex workers across the country. “Our policy is clear. We do not condone neither do we condemn them, but every human being must have access to health services,” he says.
Mantulli, a muslim, says nearly all government hospitals are reluctant to treat male sex workers for sexually transmitted infections. “I once went to hospital with anal gonorrhoea and all nurses and doctors refused to attend to me. They asked how a man can have anal gonorrhoea unless he’s gay.”
Mantulli lives alone in a small rented room in the city centre after being chased away by fellow tenants in the estates. His friend Fabian is more feminine and more discrete. He mapped male sex workers for several organisations and says there are about 4,000 in Nairobi, mostly in their 20s and in school.
He is the last born in a family of three. His mother, a mitumba clothes trader, died of Aids in 1995. He dropped from secondary school in 2005 and the following year was introduced into sex work by a friend he met in Kangemi. “My grandmother used to tell us that education is not everything. She had several plots in the slum yet she was illiterate. So I began going to a bar in Westlands. Here you buy one beer and drink slowly. As the night wears off you’ll get a man chatting you up and the two of you can go to a lodging for the night,” he says. “We didn’t use condoms all the time. Sometimes a good man says we will have sex for Sh10, 000 without a condom and Sh5, 000 if I insist on the condom.”
He says a friend in 2006 introduced him to the Kenya Aids Vaccine Initiative, who were seeking HIV negative men who have sex with men for an HIV vaccine project. Fabian says he took part because he was desperate to find anything to do and the programme made him busy. He says nearly all his clients have been married people of about 40 years. “They are regular clients. These were the best because you’re assured of constant money,” he says.
Fabian says he no longer engages in active sex work because he gets stipends from his volunteer work with NGOs. He was recently invited to South Africa to an Aids Forum to speak of his experience. He presented a paper titled: MSM: The Hidden face of HIV in Kenya. Fabian says his most scaring experience was during the KAVI programme in 2008 when he went for regular screening. “I tested positive. I know I contracted HIV from clients and may have passed it on to others,” he says. “I am still not on ARVs but I take some antibiotics.”
Fabian claims most male sex workers in Nairobi could be living with HIV but they will not admit it. He now distributes condoms to them in bars at night. Mantulli says he tested negative the last time he took a HIV test. He drowns his second beer. We have to leave as one client approaches the table.
Kingdomishere
All said and done the fact is, a strictly gay society can not go
beyond the first generation. Gayism is a concept that is fatally flawed in its
entirety. Gays satisfy their perverted desires by preying on a populace
perpetuated by heterosexuals, a concept referred to as parasitism. Parasites
fully depend on their host for self-perpetuation with host suffering
detrimental effects. If parasites are not kept in check host systems is soon
overwhelmed and breaks. The parasite has to move on to another host or die off
with the overwhelmed host. It has taken a heterosexual society thousands of
years to build the current head count of about 7 billion and growing.
Hypothetically if all humans became strictly gay from this very moment
henceforth, a population of 7 billion will be wiped down to zero in roughly
100years! That is how detrimental a gay society can be! Gay-ism is totally
self-defeating and fatally flawed to the core, just as the practice of theft,
rape, murder etc. This is the just the simple truth irrespective of whether I
am gay, my brother father son or anyone close to me.Gayism is a clear path to destruction.Stroka Hontaz
who cares on what goes on in peoples bedrooms? what destruction does it do to you, a heterosexual man? Ignorance strikes again! You should be more concerned on what our elected 'leaders' are doing - corruption. With people like you, how would we be wiped out of earth, so brother go forth and fill the world before the Gay wipe you out.....Kingdomishere
Storka Hontaz, talk about ignorance striking again. My grandmother is aware when her cattle herd is infested with vermin she does not bring in new cows simply because the vermin will spread to the new cows as well. As a matter of fact if she had intentions of bringing in new cows she puts that on hold and first, deals with the vermin. IT administrators do the same thing when their networks are infected with a virus. They do not expand the network simply because the virus will spread further. In both these instances the offending element is a parasite. What I am putting to you is common knowledge also known as common sense which apparently is not common to all. Asking heterosexuals to increase in numbers while ignoring the effects of gayism is simply expanding the gays sphere of influence meaning you are yet to grasp the parasitism concept (ignorance) or are simply ignoring it (a foolish choice any day). The fact is any society that chooses to condone any form of sociopathy gayism included is automatically engaged in a zero sum game.
To address your simplistic thoughts, you say we “should be more concerned on what our elected 'leaders' are doing”. The article mentions that our politician and leaders are also engaged with this vice so yes I am expressing concern at what our elected leaders are doing. They are engaged in corrupting the society both morally and otherwise. You say “who cares on what goes on in people’s bedrooms?” News flash, the law cares hence prohibits sexual acts with persons of the same sex. The law can even dissolve a marriage based on denial of conjugal rights. With this awareness you do not need to be a genius to realize that what goes on or does not in ones bedroom is clearly societies business. Upgrade your thoughts my friend seems you are swimming in an ocean of ignorance and basking in folishness.Guest
Storka Hontaz, to address your simplistic thoughts, you say we “should be more concerned on what our elected 'leaders' are doing”. The article mentions that our politician and leaders are also engaged with this vice so yes I am expressing concern at what our elected leaders are doing. They are engaged in corrupting the society both morally and otherwise. You say “who cares on what goes on in people’s bedrooms?” News flash, the law cares hence prohibits sexual acts with persons of the same sex. The law can even dissolve a marriage based on denial of conjugal rights. With this awareness you do not need to be a genius to realize that what goes on or does not in ones bedroom is clearly societies business. Upgrade your thoughts my friend seems you are swimming in an ocean of ignorance and basking in folishness.pmdawn
The true voice of the Kenyan people is being subtly conditioned to the acceptance of sodomy by a Frankfurt school style of Marxism, that will, without any doubt, bring them to their knees.After the destruction of Russia in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution which led to the slaughter of 10 million men, women and children, a man by the name of Georg Lukacs, a Communist and Marxist theoretician moved to Germany from Soviet Russia in 1924 where he chaired the first meeting of a group of Bolshevik Intelligensia. A gathering that was to lead to the foundation of the Frankfurt School.Their task was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which they hoped would bring down what they saw as the “oppressive” order. Their Marxist policies they hoped would spread like a virus.The School recommended among others the following:-
1. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
2. The undermining of schools and teachers authority-Mutula and his miniskirts.
3. The promotion of excessive drinking, drugs, sexual deviance and general Debauchery.
4. Emptying of churches.
5. An unreliable legal system.
6. Dependency on the state or state benefits.
7. Control and dumbing down of the media-Kim Kardashian anyone?
8. Encouraging the breakdown of the family.Well, the spread of the virus has been slower than hoped. But now it is rapidly reaching it’s objective.Susan Nyanchwa
@ pmdawn-Well put pmdawn.Whoever has ears let them use them. Some of Satan's ways of making sure that he doesn't go to hell alone. He is smater than any human being and if one can't cling to God, you're already finished. This indeed is becoming worse than Sodom and Gomorrah.mzalendohatari
You are not very smart are you?pmdawn
Care to explain?TheRealSage
I don't imagine the big newspapers carrying a story like this, Kudos to The Star. This is just the reality that belies traditional Kenyan hypocrisy. Remember this is the country where we go and organize national funerals with all pomp & pageantry without even mentioning that the deceased succumbed to AIDS. This disease is really wreaking havoc mainly because of our hypocrisy, less because of illiteracy. Let us wake up to the fact that we have an issue with morality, and that sits at the top of all of Kenya's problems, from political to social and even economic.Lydiah Nyawira
Wow this is a beautifully written piece on a very critical issue in this country. My worry is if these clients are married then what are the partners of these clients exposed to... unaware of the risky behavior their husbands are engaged in?Joni Jnr
It is time to face the reality. Gays and lesbians should be fully protected and involved in the war against HIV-AIDS. Bisexual males are a very big risk to their wives because they can transfer virus to their faithful wives. Let us stop our homophobic attitudes and together seek for better health and safety of each members. You may not be at risk but remember that the irresponsible sex network may caught up with you one day. A HIV virus in a gay/lesbian may finally find its way to you through your girlfriend or boyfriend, wife or husband!Guest
Haiyaiyaiyee! if this article is from a true source, then this kenya is more of a sodom n gommorahJoe
Kenya is no Sodom and Gomorrah thn any other country. We just need to accept the fact that we have brothers and sisters who are gay and lesbian. Trying to legislate them out like they aare doing in Nigeria or Uganda is a fool's errand at best.natasha saitoti
u think....what willl u say when u read abt transgender and intersex people in kenya?Joe
And yet we still like to pretend homosexuality does not exist in Kenya.Guest
Interesting times in deed. Prayers seem to be directed towards more pressing national political agenda.Someone smarter than me, claims that we have virgins who are HIV+. We really are all screwed, figuratively and literally.I wouldnt worry much about how many funny people we have in kenya, after all,we just been declared the most corrupt nation in the universe?kipnaomi
The fact homosexuality is in Kenya does not make it right,whether legally or morally.I have friends who are gay and i can swear that most are in it at first for the money,but get entangled in it after sometime.In high school most of us experimented with it but ditched it after getting the real deal.ken
you are right, a honest gay will admit he is doing the wrong thing, though it is difficult to break away, he will also go ahead and warn others about getting into the trap.
the demon works with head, otherwise, why would male choose a man over an obviously beautiful, soft and naturally hygienic female.sura mbaya
Nothing new here. We all know this happens but we choose to marginalize and criminalize these individuals instead of proactively addressing them. In addition this is not only happening in Kenya but also across the border in Kampala where another nation with its collective head in the sand even threatens to execute LGBTs..... what hypocrites.With_a_Y
During the just concluded Mid Term Review of the KNASP III, it was concerning to hear people making comments like "These MARPs are mostly found in Nairobi, Mombasa and the Western world and something needs to be done very fast before it gets to the rural areas".Which reminded me of the story of the Maasai from Maashuru in Kajiado saying HIV is a disease of the people of the town and those on the tarmac (the Chinese and other road construction workers)One other key challenge to HIV prevention among the high risk groups is the societies' continued denial of the existence of such populations and social intolerance to them when they do come out.This is no other than community health worker at a national stakeholders forum, so you and I may as well guess the struggle we have of closing the tap on new HIV infections.Many a times we fail to realise that because we have evicted and sent away all those who came out as MSMs or Sex Workers from our homes and villages, the only safe place for them is the urban area.Masumbi
Reminds me of a Kenyan who lived in Chicago many years ago. The guy was from Ukambani and migrated to the US probably in the 80s. He was gay and was a common feature in the night life and gay hangouts of downtown Chicago. He died many years ago but what I recall most about him is that he was deserted by Kenyan compatriots when he needed them most. When he was dying of AIDS.Aswila Ahmed
Well, realy touching story. It leaves me to wonder why married men have sex with fellow men and yet they have a wife? so is marriage just a charade?crymeanonion
An article about human diversity and adversity. Nicely done.ken
fabian should take a superior test, if not positive, he should find himself a dignified work, not prostitution or that humiliating NGO job. also he should find himsef a wife and toil like the rest of us men.if negative still, he should find himself a negative wife and do something useful to mankind instead of trying to justify a carrerer that appears to be like a death bed.
homosexuality should remain unacceptable in this nation, i dont know which lines of this article some of us have skipped to start justifying this behaviour.would anyone wish that for a brother or a close friend? what i learn is that, the male prostitutes have the least life expectancy in a society because of vulnarability to hiv and other conditions attributed to male-male sex.secondly, the hiv infections is very high and has the author writes, many families and innocent lives are being wrecked because of this.
if anybody is sick,then, he has right to medical care, but whatever the support is to be accorded, all indications must remain clear that homosexuality is unnatural and unacceptable.
1.5 million is no joke, if we dont behave more resposibly, this disease will finish this nation. i insist 'condom or go away'Mochez Kakake Sungura
yes there are virgins who are HIV+. those r the ones born with the virus & by now some r in their late teens.chunga.Kevin Bernard
o/Esipisu
Hey Muchangi, you got me thinking. Well done.K'obama's Unkle
I abhor male on male debauchery ........Alfie Were
GAYISM IS MORAL TERRORISM PERIOD!Mentex Jopono Jnr
this is crazy................can't you do something like ur friend febian mazee AIDS Is realDavid Kuria Mbote
Very well written article on a very serious issue. Muchangi, I hope you know you contribution is more for the sake of posterity rather than immediate change. It is important to highlight these issues now, so that in 10, or in Kenya's case 30 years, people will realize the sad turn of events was not for lack of knowledge. Ignoring any segment of the society in dealing with sexually transmitted diseases is epidemological foolishness. Many Kenyans would understand that dealing with HIV in the gay community has benefits both financial and epidemological for the heterosexual community as well. But alas,..... but come to think about it, - it means that we would have to treat gays like real humans...now that's a big problem.pachange
My moral campus instructs me to love these people and hate the sin. That is how I maneuver around them. I do NOT hate them no matter what.MohanMathew
It's time we accepted the LGBTs as human beings. They are no ogres. They were born with a mnbtal makeup as we see them in now. Their behaviour is not more anti-social than normal people committing adultery. Let's understand them and deal with the problem they are creating proactively. There is absolutely no use wishing them away..Kingdomishere
Bwana Mohan, should we condone kleptomaniacs? and how about pychopathic
murderers and rapist? Should we embrace them? Wisdom calls for a cost benefit analysis.
The cost of condoning LGBT sociopathy is dire. The benefits well, nothing much
that I can think of other than the ones condoning a vice feeling self righteous
only to be consumed by the vice they let grow limitlessly. Embracing LGBT is basically
a lost cause. By the way corruption is quite rampant in Kenya so should
we embrace it? If a vice is on the rise the wise do not condone it for they
know that is a path to destruction. They (the wise) are aware that is pointer to something
going terribly wrong. They (the wise) look for the root cause and rout it out. That is the
path to prosperity.Susan Nyanchwa
One in a million words that summarises everything.Thomas K Kariuki
Hey Am shocked of the world today. Surely Jesus is coming soon to save the earth. As these are some of the signs of ending of this generation of the earth. God bless us Ohh Lord of Mercy.Aydrus
Although I doubt that Mantulli is a REAL Muslim, however,
what is the reason of mentioning ISLAM in this sad story. Why the reporter did not mention Fabian`s
religion. I would like to advise Media to respect the feelings of Muslims in
this country and STOP this continuous barbaric war on ISLAM.Osman
I agree, Aydrus. The writer is simplying using the article to impute his inborn & inbred bigotry against Islam. Why did'nt the writer mention the faith of Fabian or their male clients? I ask all KENYANS waheshimu dini na mili za wenzao. Muslims are as human as the next guy. Homosexuality knows no race, or religion though its is promoted and defended by most Christian churches.Nangaya
Homosexuality has always been prevalent at the coast for decades. Muslim sheiks had harems of both women and small boys. It has been historically prevalent in the Arab world, coastal Kenya being an extension of this world.Osman
Nangaya Could you please peer more closely through the fog of your bigotry and differentiate Arab and Islam. Not all Arabs are Muslim, 52% of Lebanese population are Christians, Egypt has 10-15%, and so is Syria, Morocco e.t.c. So to impute that Muslim Sheikhs had harems does not justify, why the author of the article pointed out Mantuli's faith. Fabian a fellow gay sexworker was not marked using his faith. I am certain that you're aware how strongly the Bible condemns homosexuality, leave alone the Quran. Whatever, your bile with Muslims and Islam in general always point out issues factually. After all Rev. Gene Robinson (the gay Priest) is not a Muslim, neither is Elton John, or John Travolta.Mkwayu
Mantulli, a muslim, says .............. what is this & purpose ? all other names mentioned in this story, their faith was not mentioned, what kind of reportage! Muchangi need to notice such bias items.Consumersfederation Kenya
Real story made real. It is time the society openly discussed this issue. Like other forms of crime say rape and incest, merely condemning gays and lesbians, by any legal and other means, will not stop it. The society should work on a realistic projection of minimizing rather than a perception of elusive eradicationPhillipianman
Mantuli and Fabian, like all gays in the world, know that what he is doing is wrong. They are like criminals who know killing people, stealing, raping and involvement in anti-social behaviour is punishable by law. The Kenyan laws forbids the sexual union of man to man. This is a legal position entrenched in our legal system and supported strongly by the African customs that do not condone such actions, rightly perverse pursuits. Prostitution is a singularly sinful act of one selling their body. In much the same way as slavery is prohibited in all law abiding and democratic societies, the state has the right over the manner in which some human beings want to express their humanity, like using laws to prohibit women from using their sex as a tool for trade, or men from engaging in homosexuality, whether for fun or for profit. The laws of a country should be the final determining factor in the way forward in dealing with this perversity, notwithstanding what British Prime Minister Cameron may say on conditionalities for donor aid.
Mantuli and Fabian know about the high incidence of HIV-AIDs amongst sex workers, and more the lure for the quick money made in these illicit affairs is not reason enough for him, and others like him, to seek formal recognition and acceptance in society. It is only those steeped deeply in the mire of this malady of homosexuality who can justify the lifestyle. How should children of a father who has started engaging in homosexuality behave, or grow up? Should the father teach them his deviance and mothers perhaps teach their daughters the merits of valuing their sexual resources so as to apply them gainfully when they mature? Slum prostitutes have been known to allow their adolescent daughters step in and entertain men so as be assured of a meal, but it is this degradation of human beings society should militate strongly against, so that no woman or even man has to resort to such beastly acts to survive. There is nothing to write home about, as Mantuli points out in reference to his family's negative attitude to his choice of lifestyle. While sympathising with Mantuli for his run in with physicians for the infections he attracts to himself through anal sex for money, one can be frustrated at this suicidal pursuit that by individuals who have the guts to cite and demand human rights for treatment of diseases that come about in what is akin to self-immolation. The physicians' frustrations can be understood from the perspective of having a people who know only too well the dangers and risks of their sexual preferences willingly becoming national liabilities and assuming boorish attitudes when they fall victims of the dreaded diseases that come with their perilous sexual preferences. The activities of such gay activists militates against the physicians' health concerns to control and stop the spread of devastating diseases like HIV-AIDs. But for Mantuli, the fact that he sends money that helps his family, over their protestations over his choice of sexual orientation smacks of shameless righteous indignation. The government has the onus of clamping down on a vice that has no societal value whatsoever and in right thinking societies would not pass muster as a human right. Kenya should be different and arrest and charge both the male and female prostitutes. No amount of whitewash can make prostitution acceptalbe in any society, notwithstanding the attempts by those who are craving to demystify the vice by labelling prostitutes as sex workers. For the sake of the sanity of families and in the interest increasing chances of overcoming the threat of the HIV-AIDs pandemic, Kenya should uphold its laws that prohibit same sex relationships and outlaw prostitution as the right way to uphold human rights. To allow it is actually formalize human rights abuses. Allowing a man or woman the liberty to abuse their own bodies is to allow society to go to rot and constitutes unacceptable laisser fair - anarchy which defeats the whole essence of establishing guiding principles for existence as enforced by a government.Isaac Gitonga
Speaking from Bibilical point of view i belive we are in the last days and the world is in a sodom and Gomorah condition.I would like to ask every christian after reading this article to meditate on the following Bible verse,"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened".(mathew 24:22).Nangaya
I know a popular MP who has a very loud mouth in the "Reform" camp. He has impregnated more than 60 young school girls from his constituency and the only punishment for his crime is some parents ( of course the able ones) forced him to pay school fees for the poor child mothers. Is this also not a crime? What if he has aids, someone making kids pregnant willy nilly is definitely not responsible. He should be treated with the same contempt and be held accountable to his misdeeds and jailed for endangering the lives of countless people,. Why do we only demonize the gays? This is a bad societal vice that is un African.Actually it is inhuman, beastly. I dont support infected people or people engaging in risky behavior like prostitution male or female.
The society needs to be protected. In the west if you knowingly infect someone without telling them you have HIV it is a felony, a serious offense.Daud A
Does this fellow understand the weight of what they are talking about? The crimes they claim were committed on/against school girls. The police should compel them to record a statement on this matter to assist with investigations.mzalendohatari
5 sentences in I got tired of reading your bigotry. Homosexuality is a fact of life. Pretending it does not exist, or trying to legistlate against it is an exercise in futility. You can deal with or like an ostrich, put your head in the sand. It looks like you have chosen to do the later.Rose Njoki Wanjiku
nice article......Nelson Mbugua
Sex work is as good as office job.Kila mtu na maisha yake bora ako na chakula na mahali pa kulala.Susan Nyanchwa
May the Lord Almighty have mercy on you, for your words will judge you one day.
-TOM MBOYA AND
EVANSON NYAGA- Royal Media Services Kenya: Kenya retained the overall CNN-
multichoice Journalist of the year award, won by Citizen TV news anchor Tom
Mboya and Evanson Nyaga for their story titled “ African Tribe In India.” The
journalists traveled to Hyderabad , India , last year to follow the roots of the
black Indians who migrated to India
-WAIHIGA MWAURA
AND JEPHITHA MWAI- Royal Media Services, Kenya
CNN’S senior vice
president for international news gathering Parisa Khosravi said this year’s
awards showed bravery by journalists. “I have watched my colleagues continue to
report fearlessly on a huge range of stories this year, often at a great
personal risk and always with immense determination,” she said.
Zambian president
Michael Sata, in a speech read by Foreign Affairs Minister Given Lubinda, said
African journalists should own and tell the story of Africa .
“The stories
presented are stories of hope for the continent,” Sata said.
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