Welcome to Africa Foundation For Young Media Professionals
AFYMP is established to strengthen, promote a vibrant, independent Africa media professionals who push for open, inclusive, sustainable society. Its strategic audience are the next generation, early careers journalists within the industry who are its future
Who are We
The focus of our intervention is to create a new Africa media, journalism landscape that delivers value to its society through a professionally equipped, exposed, innovative, vibrant next generation, early career journalists poised for sustainable impact.
Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals is a Pan African non- profit initiative established to raise the standard of media professional practice in Africa beginning from Nigeria. It is entirely a Media Skill Development, Mentoring, Debate, Awards and discussion platform with the aim of creating budding raw materials that will equip the upcoming and middle level/established media professionals in Africa media industry.
Our Projects
Entrepreneurial Journalism
This is targeted at start up online news media entrepreneurs
Sustainable Journalism
Building capacity and promoting benefits and value in Sustainable Journalism for global development
Media Capacity development for Media and Communications Students
this is a capacity development platform targeted at media, Communication students in varied institutions
. Women in Journalism start-ups(WIJS)
this programme is aimed at developing and encouraging young women who aspire to become mediaprenuers with relevant resources and capacity development opportunities
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Our Project on DEI, (Diversity, Equity, and inclusion) is majorly focused on increasing the visibility of marginalized voices in the media. This project runs fellowship and media capacity developments which prepare and equip next generation of media practitioners to become champion of this.
Our organization’s activities are targeted toward Young and Early Career Media practitioners of 5 years and below, students of media, communications and Public Relations.
The headquarters is based in Nigeria with projected offices in Nairobi Kenya, Johannesburg South Africa and New York USA.
Our Progress
Operations(Strategy, tactics)
Form alliances with credible media, Media skills development organizations in planning, execution, marketing of the projects and services.
Build alliances with different media student associations especially in tertiary institutions in Nigeria and Africa for ease of project planning, execution especially for media clinics.
News and Blogs
Early career women in Journalism need…
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At UCJ LASUSTECH inauguration, experts task members to be professionals
Journalism continues to be the only hope of the society in upholding democracy, truth and accountability. But if the actors become biased, unprofessional as well as ignorant of their roles, society becomes the first victim of such tyranny. For this reason, younger journalists, who are
Be inclusive, create disability and inclusion desk- experts tasked Newsrooms
When Journalists, broadcasters refuse to perform their roles, remain mute, refuse to speak against injustice, the society will suffer A commitment to the issue of disability and inclusion is seen when actions correspond with speeches. A concerted action from every stakeholder will provoke faster acceleration