Dibussi Tande: Scribbles from the Den

Dorothée Danedjo Fouba: ‘A Good Blogger Must Already Have the Intrinsic Qualities of All Good Journalists’

Interviewed by Dibussi Tande (Originally published on Global Voices Online and translated from French by Andrew Kowalczuk)

Digital journalism is booming in Africa thanks to the efforts of people like Cameroonian blogger and multimedia journalist Dorothée Danedjo Fouba, whose online alias is DorothyDaf.

A winner of the prize for “Best African ICT Blog, Telkom-Highway Africa New Media Awards 2013″, she recently spoke with Dibussi Tande (@dibussi) about the state of affairs in this field, and the qualities needed to excel in it.

Dibussi Tande (DT): Congratulations on having won the “Best African ICT Blog, Telkom-Highway Africa New Media Awards 2013″. What does this mean to you?

[Interview] Ngu Morcho: "Africa's Time is Now!"

Originally broadcast on the on The Businessmakers Radio Show (Houston)

Summary: He grew up in a Cameroon village in a family that valued education. He attended college in the U.K., and years later earned his M.B.A. at Rice University and studied entrepreneurship, hoping to one day return home to help his fellow Africans. As democracy has grown throughout the country, so has entrepreneurship. And Ngu Morcho is right in the middle of it, through his efforts with the Tagos Group. Russ interviews an entrepreneur with a remarkable story.

 

 

Ngu Morcho from The Businessmakers on Vimeo.

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