A book on how telling truth force many journalists across Africa flee their homeland written by Gambian journalist Sainey Marenah and 15 otheer African journalists has finally been published.
The book ‘Hounded: African Journalists in Exile’, documents accounts of how the unrelenting conviction to tell the truth forced many journalists to flee our homelands. The book has finally been published.
According to Marenah, he is proud to tell his story and the difficult experience of Gambian journalists under a repressive and cruel dictatorship through “this international publication, which further inspires my commitment to journalism and freedom of expression in Gambia and Africa at large”.
“Some of the contributors – editors, journalists and bloggers who hail from West, Central, East and Southern Africa – remain in exile for telling the truth. “Power hates scrutiny,” Hounded editor Joseph Odindo writes and rightfully so,” Marenah said while reacting to the publishing of the book.
He added: “Why else are there journalists in Africa and other parts of the world threatened for doing their job? Facing murder, “disappearances and Kidnaps; journalists have “slipped away to continue the struggle at great personal risk,” writes exiled Cameroonian journalist Mimi Mefo Takambou who now plies her trade in a newsroom in Germany.
“As Odindo observes, this book is both a tribute of record and history. History rhymes eerily for African journalists who continue to be hounded to this day.
“Special Thanks to Ebrima Jatta, Managing Editor of GRTS for his support and guidance during the process, Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow, TRRC Executive Secetary and my friend, Saikou Jammeh, Secetary General, Gambia Press Union.
“The Book is published by The Media Programmme Africa of The Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German Think Thank based in South Africa
“Crucial insights into the tough world of journalism and travails of african journalists under repressive regimes, these stories underscore challenges faced by members of the press in fulfilling their fundamental duty to inform.”
See internet link of the book; https://www.kas.de/en/web/medien-afrika/einzeltitel/detail/-/content/hounded-african-journalists-in-exile
