kojo, Author at iWatch Africa

Meet Sandister Tei, an iWatch Africa Transparency Project facilitator

kojo — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 06:42:17 +0000

Sandister Tei is a multimedia journalist at Citi FM and has previously worked at Multimedia and Al Jazeera / AJ+.

She has been a facilitator for iJourno and YALI Tech Camp.

In her leisure time she volunteers for Wikimedia Ghana UG, a community of Wikipedia editors she co-founded.

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Meet Maukeni Padiki Kodjo, an iWatch Africa Transparency Launch facilitator

kojo — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 06:30:20 +0000

Maukeni Padiki Kodjo is a storyteller who is passionate about chronicling Ghanaian experiences. Her blog, www.kenikodjo.com, a collection of fictional stories about everything under the Ghanaian sun, won Best Blog in the Ghana Blogging and Social Media Awards in 2016.

She is a final year law student at Mountcrest University and a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, Accra Hub.

Keni believes that storytelling is a powerful tool for capturing the past, defining the present and projecting into the future.

(Diazepam)

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Ghana’s shameful record in child marriages [Infographics]

kojo — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:22:13 +0000

Looking closely at the figures and reports and figures concerning the alarming rates of child marriages across the world, one of the iJourno Africa trainees found an unpleasant statistics attributed to Ghana. This is in relation to the country’s global ranking on child marriages, and the story shows that Ghana ranks high. Full details in the inforgraphic below:

(www.fi-di.com)

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