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Index
Cover
Praise
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
African Muckraking: Past and present – Anya Schiffrin
Acknowledgements
The Struggle for Independence
Sol Plaatje: ‘All we claim is our just dues’ – Catherine Higgs
David Martin: Tracking the 1969 killing of Mozambique’s independence fighter, Eduardo Mondlane – James R. Brennan
Gwen Lister and Pius Dunaiski: Exposed plans to stop SWAPO at ‘all costs’ – Ron Nixon
Anton Harber calls an apartheid strongman a ‘liar’ and changes the game in the negotiations that led to a free South Africa – Ferial Haffajee
John Kamau: Understanding the seeds of discord – Bob Wekesa
The Struggle for Democracy
Dictatorships and brutality in Africa – Anton Harber
The horrors of Hola: A British atrocity that eclipsed Empire – Peter Kimani
Ruth First: The obligation to dissent – Catherine Higgs
Albert Porte: Speaking truth to power – Rodney Sieh
Prima Curia: The hoax that turned out to be true – Eric Mwamba
Learn the lesson: Norbert Zongo warned that no one is safe – Ernest Harsch
Kamau Ngotho: Unearthing the truth behind a 40-year-old murder – Tom Maliti
Achebe and the Biafran War – Okey Ndibe
Exposing apartheid’s death squads – Anton Harber
The team of journalists who exposed the biowarfare experiments of the apartheid regime – Peter Klein
Sheila Kawamara in the killing fields of Rwanda – Lydia Namubiru
Health, Rural Affairs and the Environment
Famine and epidemic disease in Africa – Alex de Waal
Mo Amin: Memories of Salim Amin and the Ethiopian famine – Salim Amin with Nicole Pope
Omololu Falobi: Journalist who made the media care about HIV/AIDS – Anselm Okolo
Violet Otindo: Condom shortages in Northern Kenya – Christoph Spurk
Adrienne Engono Moussang investigates the weather – Tilda Abou Rizk
Toyosi Ogunseye fought for justice for all of Lagos’s residents – Ben Colmery
Francis Mbala, Ohemeng Tawiah and Janneke Donkerlo: On ruling elites and malaria – Evelyn Groenink
Corruption
Reporting corruption in Africa – Nicolò Gnecchi
Erdéa (Sékou Touré or Mamadou Madeira Keita), ‘Montout, Negro colonizer’ – Gregory Mann
Exposing presidential corruption and standing up to censorship in Cameroon – Dibussi Tande
Simon Kaheru: Reporting on privatisation gone wild in the sale of Uganda’s biggest bank – George Lugalambi
Carlos Cardoso: Determined to investigate an assassination attempt – even if it meant his life – Erika Rodrigues
Anas Aremeyaw Anas goes undercover in Hell’s Kitchen – Evelyn Groenink
Barry Sergeant: The Panama Papers showed how African assets were taken offshore – Khadija Sharife
Idris Akinbajo: Global Witness and investigative reporters track government and big oil corruption – Toyin Akinniyi and Barnaby Pace
In Mali, beware of targeting religious officials, especially Catholic ones! – Ramata Diaouré
Mining
Media coverage of the extractives sector in Africa – George Lugalambi and Anya Schiffrin
On the coming war in the Delta – Clifford Bob
Khadija Sharife on the Kimberley Process: How a system created to eliminate conflict diamonds hid conflicts through secrecy, legislative blindspots and a good ol’ dose of one-eyed policy-making – William Gumede
234NEXT: An institution unafraid to challenge Nigeria’s most powerful – Ethan Zuckerman
Selay Marius Kouassi and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalist’s Fatal Extraction team: The human cost of Australia’s mining empire in Africa – Will Fitzgibbon
Women
Gender reporting in Africa: An in-depth analysis on the visibility of women in the media – Rosemary Okello-Orlale
Tahar Haddad: Raising awareness about discrimination against women – Kamel Labidi
Made of steel: Fatuma Noor dared to expose Al-Shabaab – Catherine Gicheru
Standing up to the Sande: How Mae Azango shifted public conversation on FGC – Prue Clarke
Hicham Houdaïfa: Giving voice to the forgotten women of Morocco’s ‘Lead Years’ – Anissa M. Bouziane
Human Rights
A history of human rights reporting in Africa – Eamon Kircher-Allen
Nxumalo goes undercover to expose human rights violations in apartheid South Africa – Anton Harber
Aliro pulled back the curtain on unlawful detention and torture of Muslims in Uganda – George Lugalambi
The intersection of human rights and investigative journalism in Angola’s ‘blood diamond’ industry – Lisa Misol
Richard Mgamba describes the burdens people with albinism carry in Tanzania – George Lugalambi
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