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We're building a new website, with associated blogs and new features to better reflect our mission and activities. The new website and other new initiatives of Africa Agenda would be formally launched with the convening of our next public forum in a few months. Please stay tuned for the launch date, time and location. For now, please browse for information about us and about Africa and don't hesitate to contact us with any questions that you may have.
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What is Africa Agenda?
"The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about."
- Bernard C. Cohen, 1963Africa Agenda was founded based on the concept of media agenda setting. Agenda setting is "the creation of public awareness and concern for important issues by the mass media."
Mission
The mission of Africa Agenda is to help garner positive press for Africa by utilizing the powerful effects concept of the media in society.
Read more»What We Do
We do our work by organizing education and information events; forums, workshops, seminars, and conferences and by executing projects that speak to a better, stronger, stable, prosperous and democratic Africa in the twenty first century.
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What We Do
We do our work by organizing education and information events; forums, workshops, seminars, and by executing projects
> Read more.Mission
Africa Agenda's mission is to enhance positive images of Africa through engagement with the community, mass media outlets, leaders and lay people.
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Newsroom
Mobile Phones Give Africans a Voice, make governments nervous. > Read more.
London Plays Host to Africa's Most Ambitious Journalist Training Programme. > Read more...
Reuters Looks to Africa and a Decentralized Future for Media. > Read more...
HELP US PLAN OUR NEXT EVENT
-Does the press reflect reality? Combating negative press about Africa? Learn more...
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SPOTLIGHT: data.gov
"After just one year a community is born around open government data" See which other nations are establishing and linking open government data. Read more...
STATE OF NEWS MEDIA 2010
Ad revenue for African American magazines fell 21.8% to 252 million in 2009, reported a 6.5% decline for Jet and 10% decline for Ebony. Read PEW's State of the News Media for more Read more...»
Featured Events
December 5, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Africa:Towards Freedom, Development and Democracy. Location: University of Denver. Read more... »
May 7, 2009, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Cameroon Information and Education Day,CIED. Bridging the knowledge and information gap about Cameroon. Location: The FORUM. Cammunity College of Aurora. Read more... »