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What Happens After the Cameras Leave: Shorai Murwira on Environmental Journalism in Zimbabwe
A Zimbabwean journalist on why environmental reporting only shows up after disaster, and the newsroom she built to cover everything that happens in between. The trigger problem Most environmental coverage in Southern Africa focuses on the same thing. A cyclone lands, a river floods, a drought gets bad enough, and for a week or two it's a story, Then the cameras abruptly leave. Shorai Murwira's career has been an argument against that pattern, and in 2022 she turned the argume
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Jul 284 min read
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What the Camera Sees: Malumbo Simwaka on Documenting Malawi
How one self-taught Malawian photographer turned a wedding photography side hustle into a documentary career, capturing flood survivors, hospital wards, and the development stories nobody else is recording. A family stands silently on the edge of a riverbank in southern Malawi. Just a day earlier, this was their home. Their possessions, furniture, savings, and sense of security were all swept away by floodwaters. Nothing remains except the clothes they are wearing. For Malumb
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Jun 156 min read
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BAHASI (Bangwe HIV/AIDs Self Help Initiative)
In the township of Bangwe on the outskirts of Blantyre Malawi, BAHASI has been doing amazing work since 2004. It is a community organisation that has made itself indispensable to the people around it. At its core BAHASI is a home, It houses up to 50 orphaned and vulnerable children referred by local social welfare offices and police, providing them with meals, accommodation, and stability while permanent placements are found. It also runs a free preschool for over 100 childre
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Apr 91 min read
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