Doris Ebong "boogie trip" is a nice backdrop to a grim tale of journalists being bumped off in Nigeria. read on here but first a hat tip to Africa Express

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Trevor Ncube and Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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For too long, news about and for Africans has come predominately from outsiders. International media portrayals of Africans have often been unrecognizable to Africans.

The continent's journalists have tried - with increasing success - to present a more accurate and nuanced picture of their home and its myriad peoples and cultures. They have striven at the same time to hold their governments accountable by exposing corruption and airing the views of the opposition, civil society, the poor and the marginalized