"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
IRIN series “Heroes of HIV” – a powerful and moving series of short films on HIV/AIDS – closes with Elizabeth Ngugi, a university professor and former nurse who has dedicated the last twenty years of her life to help girls and women trapped in Kenya’s sex trade. Since 1989 she has helped more than 600 sex workers retrain and find alternative incomes.
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By IRIN – www.irinnews.org
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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