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Amazwi Villager
MOST RECENT: Issue 07 (July 2008)
* Villager Staff & Journalists
* Amazwi Villager Online
* Villager Publishing Program
* Villager Lodge Partners
The Villager (a South African news magazine) is written by rural African female journalists of Sotho and Shangaan descent and distributed [...]
Villager Publishing Partnership Program
Amazwi’s Publication Partner Program
Amazwi and the Amazwi Villager’sPublication Partnership Program offers publications (and their readers) a unique journalism opportunity. The Amazwi Villager and its journalists are looking to team up with foreign publications in effort to increase the exposure of print media produced by rural southern Africans and focused on rural issues.
The Villager is written [...]
Donate Now: Help Renovate the Newsroom!
Making strides to positively integrate Amazwi journalists and The Villager , the first newspaper in Acornhoek village, as a permanent feature of the community.
In July 2008, The Amazwi Villager newsroom moved from home office space located 25km from Acornhoek (in the village of Hoedspruit) to Acornhoek’s main street in donated space between a chicken shop [...]
Amazwi Volunteers
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the
world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
~ Margaret Mead
Amazwi’s 2008 Volunteer Team
(United States, South Africa, Canada)
The Amazwi Villager (on-site): Lou Manzo (Senior Editor & Online Content Manager), Briget Ganske (Managing Editor), Daniela Cohen (Senior Editor & NPO Manager)
a.magazine’s African [...]
Amazwi School of Media Arts
The Amazwi School of Media Arts’ Narrative Journalism and Fieldwork Studies program (2007) worked with rural Shangaan and Sotho women on the craft of reporting, ethnographic fieldwork, storytelling, narrative structure, writing basics, the literary toolbox, editing, and much more. The goal of this program was to not only train women as rural foot reporters [...]
a.magazine
a.magazine: nonfiction narratives of africa is a nonfiction literary magazine showcasing established and emerging writers and artists from Africa and across the globe.
a.magazine takes pride in its innovative style, blending quality narrative with a strong graphic layout for a unique “lit-trade” mix. a.magazine’s bi-annual publication has the permanence of a literary publication and the premium [...]
Amazwi Fundraising 2008
Funding running costs and Amazwi programs
In 2008, we have a team of three international volunteers (on-site) committed to the professional development of our SOMA journalism graduates (class of 2007) and the further establishment of the Amazwi Villager as a local news source — a medium through which issues are discussed and investigated — [...]