Kenyan President Urges Journalists to 'Stand Up for African Truths'
Uhuru Kenyatta delivers a consummate clarion call.
At the recent CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, the country’s president Uhuru Kenyatta delivered several impassioned messages to the crowd at hand. The ceremony was held at the Kenyatta International Convention Center, a facility named after his father.
Kenyatta noted that foreign media still often lazily get stories about Africa wrong. He also very provocatively pointed out what he sees as a double standard in the coverage of migrants. From a summary report by This Day Live:
“What do headlines tell us daily about the crisis in Europe of migrants from Africa and the Middle East? When these suffering people travel across the Mediterranean, they become migrants.
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