Posts Tagged ‘radio’
South Africa loses feisty AIDS activist, poignant digital diarist
This happened last week, but I only just caught up: 24-year-old Thembi Ngubane died last Thursday, after becoming an incredible force for fighting HIV/AIDS. She did this in part by recording a year in her life living with AIDS, as part of Joe Richman’s Radio Diaries series. Her story starts: “Every morning, when I wake [...]
This American and My African lives not compatible
For whatever reason, I cannot get the This American Life podcast to download here. With patience and diligence I stretched over two days, I got 43 minutes of blissfully bad ABC programming, but I can’t get a 27 MB podcast. It’s not an NPR thing; Foreign Dispatch comes over the wire just fine… Is this [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [