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A CALL FOR AN AFRIKAN MEDIA ALLIANCE

WHY AND HOW WE STARTED OUR MAGAZINE AND TV

Chioma Phillips

This interview was done in celebration Manifesting God. It was a very ex- they not respond accurately? How
of one year of publishing videos about citing time. How did we start? come they just remain stuck in these
Afrika. Chioma Phillips, the editor of little bubbles? What’s going on?
Msingi Afrika Magazine and presenter Well, we started literally in our living
on Msingi Afrika Television, gave a brief room, based on months and months So, we had talked. But then, we real-
story of how it all started. of conversation my husband and I ized that perhaps all this talking was
were having about Afrika and the not just talking, it was more a call to
state of Afrika. Why are things like action, a call to respond to a respon-
When, how and why did you start this? Why do Afrikan politicians sibility to deliver a new message of
Msingi Afrika Magazine and TV? behave like this? Why do they act hope, to deliver accurate messages
On June 29th 2019, which was like that? Why do they make these to Afrikans. And so, we began with
actually my birthday, that’s when we decisions that just seem to run con- little to no funding. One of our sis-
released the first issue of Msingi trary to any sense? What exactly is ters, who does not like to be spoken
Afrika Magazine, that is: Kenya: going on with our people? Why do of, helped us with the seed capital

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