Moky Makura (Africa No Filter): Templates of storytelling and narratives | Media in Africa #2
A DRC bond issue four times oversubscribed, not because investors believed in the country but because the risk priced into it paid so well. A thousand people in the US and the UK who would buy a painting from Africa, but not a computer and not a medicine. And a bill, $4.2 billion, for what the world's coverage adds to the continent's cost of borrowing. In the second episode of Media in Africa, Georja Calvin-Smith talks with Moky Makura, Executive Director of Africa No Filter, the narrative-change organisation she has led since it launched six years ago, about what the story of a broken continent actually costs, and who benefits from keeping it in place.
Media in Africa is a Meridian17 podcast on the people who make African media — press freedom, funding, shifting audiences and how the continent is covered abroad — hosted by Georja Calvin-Smith. Produced in partnership with the KAS Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa; editorial control rests with Meridian17.