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Disability News Africa .org A digital publication using data-driven journalism to tell the disability side of the story by disabled journalists in Africa. Our Mission. Our Vision. Our Story.
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Using solutions journalism, we build bridges for inclusive communities, bringing the disability agenda to the media landscape. We are a news organ shining light on disability inclusion in Africa. We bring together Story Tellers and Journalist with disabilities from around the continent, arming them to tell the disability side of the story. We are inspired by the fact that no one can tell our story

better than we ourselves. Our philosophy is build on the believe that what is good for persons with disabilities is good for humanity. Our Mission is to build bridges for inclusive communities in Africa through Solutions Journalism. We envisage an Africa in which persons with disabilities have equitable access to Quality Information, Education, Technology, Healthcare, Employment, Transport, Sports, Humanitarian assistance, Shelter, Political participation, Peacebuilding endeavours, Social inclusion and Justice. Our Motor is Equity and Inclusion. Our Values.
`Our Values are Empathy, Humanity, Equity, Justice and Peace. Our Vision is to ensure that disability inclusion in Africa moves from abstract to concrete action reflected through reasonable accommodation, community participation and every-day-life. We believe in the ability in disability and building an enabling environment for persons with impairments to thrive is our biggest dream. We welcome support from organisations and individuals to enable us equip young journalists with the requisite knowledge and skills, and as well, the holding of an All Disability Journalists Convention in Africa. Our fellowship. To groom passionate Story Tellers and Journalists who hunger to accelerate disability inclusion through solution’s journalism, we have develop a short rigorous fellowship with resources to sustain the vision of DNA. The yearly fellowship is opened to youth journalists with disabilities between the age of 18 and 35 who demonstrate valuable ideas and willingness to contribute stories which would reduce negative societal perceptions, building more disability conscious citizens in Africa. The trainees will have the opportunity to be groomed by experts and mentors carefully selected by DNA. Persons with disabilities, despite being among the most affected in times of conflicts remain excluded from Peacebuilding and humanitarian intervention schemes. Triggered by growing negative societal perceptions expressed through discrimination and exclusion from mainstream activities, Leaders of Foundation for the Inclusion and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities first thought of the idea to create a Disability Inclusion news organ in 2021. The idea was further inspired by the underrepresentation of the disability agenda within the African media landscape. We recognise the power of the media in driving social change and have an unchanging conviction that the situation of persons with disabilities is not an exception. Having reflected on the best possible way of unravelling the ability in disability, while crushing negative perceptions surrounding the concept of disability in Africa, we felt that empowering story Tellers and Journalists with disabilities to tell the disability side of the story was a duty. For two years, we built a holistic model to sustain the vision while connecting and sharing the idea with Organisations, individuals and disabled Journalists around the continent to capture and consider their perspective about the project. The name Disability News Africa was adopted in August 2022, and since then our team has worked hard to make the dream come true. After much ground work, DNA officially went operational in February 2024 with its holistic solution journalism approach to disability inclusion, recognising that the narrative of disabled people in the continent would only change when journalist with disabilities learn how to tell the disability side of the story. DNA operates as the media arm of the Foundation for the Inclusion and Empowerment of Persons With disabilities, a not for profit organisation with head office in Cameroon, championing meaningful inclusion and equitable participation of children and youth with disabilities in mainstream activities.

The Cameroon Anglophone Conflict has complicated life for parents of students with disabilities, who before now already ...
04/10/2024

The Cameroon Anglophone Conflict has complicated life for parents of students with disabilities, who before now already faced serious difficulties getting their children to school:

"I started hawking boiled meat and later boiled groundnut and now I sell pancakes which take much

Happy New month our sympathizers and supporters. We know you have waited for of our for a while now. Finally 💃💃💃💃💃It...
01/10/2024

Happy New month our sympathizers and supporters. We know you have waited for of our for a while now. Finally 💃💃💃💃💃It's time for us to serve you with the rich Divine investment in these special people, again. Join us on the 23rd November at Nkwen Palace Hall, 12noon, to celebrate World Disability Day. World Disability Day is celebrated every year on the 3rd of December but breed Africa Foundation will be commemorating it on 23rd November via the 2nd Edition of their Talent Showcase For Persons with Disabilities under the theme: Hands Together For Disability Inclusive Economic Empowerment.


To Perform/Partner/Support/Sponsor: +23679592502( Atangche Zita )
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For nearly seven years, thousands of Persons with disabilities in Cameroon's Northwest and Southwest Regions have immers...
26/08/2024

For nearly seven years, thousands of Persons with disabilities in Cameroon's Northwest and Southwest Regions have immersed in an armed conflict which has made everyday life a nightmare. Access to basic services such as food, potable water, shelter, health care, education and economic opportunities remains difficult largely due to non-inclusive humanitarian schemes. What is even more troubling is the fact that while most persons with disabilities have been developing mental health complications owing to neglect and abandonment, the media which should serve as a catalyst in exposing the depth of the conflict on this group of persons have been almost completely absent. I'm fulfilled that Joeita Gupta posted me on The Pulse program where I was able to disect the Cameroon Anglophone conflict's horrors on disabled people and how they are excluded from the peace building process. Click the link below to access the full interview on Disability, War and the peace Process in Cameroon.
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This week, Joeita speaks to Cameroon-based disability rights activist, journalist, and lecturer Kesah Princely Nfortoh about the impact of the country's civi...

"How Social Media Rescued Me from African Conventional Media wolves: Transforming my Dark-Spots to Stepping Stones for D...
19/08/2024

"How Social Media Rescued Me from African Conventional Media wolves: Transforming my Dark-Spots to Stepping Stones for Disability inclusion. - Disability News Africa" https://disabilitynewsafrica.org/index.php/2024/08/16/how-social-media-rescued-me-from-african-conventional-media-wolves-transforming-my-dark-spots-to-stepping-stones-for-disability-inclusion
InABLE

Despite how aggrieved I felt during that period, what now gives me joy is the outcome of the experience. After weeks of reflection, I spoke with a few practising journalists with visual impairment in January 2017 to find out what their experiences both within the newsroom and on the field were. The....

The Managing Editor of the Disability News AFrica network, Princely Kesah has arrived WDC Hotel, Buea Cameroon to parti...
03/08/2024

The Managing Editor of the Disability News AFrica network, Princely Kesah has arrived WDC Hotel, Buea Cameroon to participate in the EXECUTIVE GLOBAL MASTERCLASS CONFERENCE on Leadership and Business.
The Disability Rights Journalist is among top 100 participants from across the country to exchange ideas at the said conference.
Kesah is equally CEO of Foundation for the Inclusion and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and Lecturer of International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the University of Buea, South West region of Cameron.
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Kesah Princely
United People Global

Over 20 Youth with disabilities affected by the raging Cameroon Anglophone conflict have benefited from a craft training...
22/07/2024

Over 20 Youth with disabilities affected by the raging Cameroon Anglophone conflict have benefited from a craft training to enable cope with harsh economic conditions brought about by the world. Organized by Foundation for the Inclusion and Empowerment of persons with Disabilities (FIEPWD) in partnership with Hopeful Home for All foundation and the Association for Promoting Global Health and wellness for community employment and Sustainability, beneficiaries learned life-long skills.
Bidding, crochet, and interior decor comprised the package dished to beneficiaries in Buea, Southwest region. The participants were urge to use the skills and knowledge acquired to improve not only their conditions but also to better the life's of their peers with disabilities in their respective communities.

Full article coming soon
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Foundation For The Inclusion And Empowerment Of Persons With Disabilities
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Kesah Princely

19/07/2024

“I would rather be killed than live without my car,” Joseph Fru said, explaining that

17/07/2024
The parent organization of Disability News Africa .org, Foundation For The Inclusion And Empowerment Of Persons With Dis...
25/06/2024

The parent organization of Disability News Africa .org, Foundation For The Inclusion And Empowerment Of Persons With Disabilities , is organizing a series of free trainings for youth with disabilities affected by the ongoing Cameroon Anglophone armed conflict.

The trainings seek to equip participants with skills that can allow them break through the economic barrenness and over dependence occasioned by the conflict, and live a more autonomous and self-sustaining life.
To register, send us a message, or call the contacts on the flyer.

And if you wish to support the trainings, you can contact: +237674667038, Kesah Princely Nfortoh.


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Disability Inclusion in JMC Crescendos as Blind Student Hits Mile-stone.Princeley Njukang has been elected key executive...
20/06/2024

Disability Inclusion in JMC Crescendos as Blind Student Hits Mile-stone.

Princeley Njukang has been elected key executive member of the Association of Student Journalists of the University of Buea – ASJUB. Njukang, who is a key member of the Disability News Africa team, was voted Vice President of the said association recently, within the framework of student body elections for the 2024-2025 academic year in the university. He becomes the first visually impaired to serve in the government of the association, which militates for the rights and interests of students of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC.)
Speaking to DNA shortly after his election, he pledged to use his mandate to ensure that JMC students benefit from a future-oriented training, one that is in line with current technological evolutions. “If we don’t do this, we will soon realize that we’re training journalists and communicators for the 1st century, instead of the 21st century,” he said.
The youngster, who has served the department of Journalism and Mass Communication in various capacities, including being the Editor-in-chief of the Chariot Newspaper, and one of the lead program anchors of the Chariot Radio, becomes the second blind journalists to receive formal training in the department, created 31 years ago. “I happily gave him my vote because he is a born leader whose selflessness is an inspiration to many of us who are close to him,” a course mate told DNA.
With his new office, the visually impaired student who is completing his one but last undergraduate year has an upper hand to press for the meaningful inclusion and equitable participation of persons with disabilities in departmental and faculty activities. As he and his team swing to work, many hope bitter memories of a lecturer telling the first ever blind student of the department in his first lecture in 2016 that Journalism was never meant to be for blind people can be erased from the minds of many affected students, parents and advocates.



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The inclusive Africa Conference 2024 is bringing a major innovation: The Icon of the Year Award . The award is designed to celebrate a young African with a disability who is using assistive technologies to create positive impact in their community. Nominations are currently opened, and will close on Saturday To nominate, click this link: https://form.jotform.com/240934581806562?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0IL9PghKwFk26kdysKIth8VMkU3nFiOQZIYfsUguhvmvzpfH7Jxf5rsqU_aem_AfV748PlC_B-rr8JPwHkkjSAdaY_CZMNeoCa_xeuz7cBl8X8f2XUoKaS9T9_4WiITbDcg4ARE4zqXMrk8wyb1Z0D #Inclusiveafrica conference #disabilityrights InABLE United People Global TWIF NEWS

Inclusive Africa conference 2024 is bringing a major innovation: the icon of the Year award. The award is designed to celebrate a young African with disability who is using assistive technologies to create positive impact in his or her community. Nominations are currently open, and will end on Saturday. At Disability News Africa .org, we Believe that the most deserving should get this award, and there is no one as deserving as Kesah Princely. A disability right journalist, he has used assistive technologies such as Google Talkback, to build platforms that advocate for the inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities across Africa. He's currently the managing editor of disability news africa, a platform that he found it to tell the stories of Africans with disabilities. Princely's commitment to the improvement of the situation of persons with disabilities across the continent is truly remarkable, and this is one other opportunity to recognize his efforts. To nominate him, click this link: https://form.jotform.com/240934581806562?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0IL9PghKwFk26kdysKIth8VMkU3nFiOQZIYfsUguhvmvzpfH7Jxf5rsqU_aem_AfV748PlC_B-rr8JPwHkkjSAdaY_CZMNeoCa_xeuz7cBl8X8f2XUoKaS9T9_4WiITbDcg4ARE4zqXMrk8wyb1Z0d #inclusiveafricaconference InABLE United People Global TWIF NEWS

The inclusive Africa conference 2024 is coming with a landmark innovation: the icon of the Year award. This award recognizes the work of an African with a disability who is using assistive technologies to create community impact. At Disability News Africa .org, we believe that Kesah Princely deserves not only to be nominated, but also to bring this award home. His contribution to the empowerment and inclusion of persons with disabilities, coupled with his relentless quest for innovations aimed at tackling the difficulties faced by these persons in the =, continent uniquely position him as one who must get this award. Kesah is our managing editor, and has used Google Talkback to build a platform that voices the issues of persons with disabilities in africa, and compels stakeholders to act. To nominate him, click this link : https://form.jotform.com/240934581806562?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0IL9PghKwFk26kdysKIth8VMkU3nFiOQZIYfsUguhvmvzpfH7Jxf5rsqU_aem_AfV748PlC_B-rr8JPwHkkjSAdaY_CZMNeoCa_xeuz7cBl8X8f2XUoKaS9T9_4WiITbDcg4ARE4zqXMrk8wyb1Z0d The African inclusive conference is the gathering of the best minds in the continent to discuss issues affecting disability inclusion. # inclusiveafricaconference and InABLE United People Global

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