This is interesting. An AFP report:
Africa is mulling setting up a 24-hour television news channel that would portray the continent in positive perspective on the global platform and promote a development agenda, officials said on Wednesday.
They said the channel, which will resemble pan-Arabic television Al-Jazeera, could be in place by next year. “We want to cover Africa as it is in a more balanced, honest way and focus on development of the continent. Africa is not about just aid, but it’s also about creating opportunities,” Salim Amin, the head of the Camerapix, the Kenyan-based company overseeing the exercise, told a pan-African media conference in Nairobi.
The pan-African and multilingual news and information channel, which plans to begin broadcasting late next year, will cost approximately 75 million dollars, said Amin.
Amin said the Doha-based Al-Jazeera had achieved more in broadcasting the views of the Arab world than a western TV channel could do, thus the need for Africans to raise their voices. Media experts attending the conference lamented that Africa had suffered poor coverage over the decades, being portrayed as a continent of disaster while there were numerous positive events thriving in its regions.
Let’s hope this works.
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