Africa Interactive
Africa Interactive is an online media company running an international, interactive and multimedia platform, with a particular focus on Africa. The website www.africanews.com is one of our activities. Our Dutch website is www.afrikanieuws.nl
AfricaNews is the most compelling interactive Africa community, sharing news, photos, weblogs, videos, mobile reports and the untold stories by African people. With a focus on Business, Microfinance, Society, Culture, Travel, Nature, Music and Sport.
The aim of Africa Interactive is to inform each and every person having some interest in Africa about the multiple facets of that continent. We offer a podium to everyone willing to post his/her own stories on our website. Webloggers, writers, (citizen) journalists, photographers, filmmakers: every body is welcome.
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The team
Managing director of Africa Interactive. Graduated in philosophy, Pieter chose for a career in media. He was until recently self employed as a media consultant. Before that he was editor-in chief of Planet Internet and Manager Content Production at KPN Television and Media.
Favorite place in Africa: Being a passionate diver, I have spent my best experiences underwater in the spectacular Red Sea!
Co-founder of Africa Interactive / Content Development Director. He studied Social Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam. Before that he worked as freelance journalist for various Dutch media such as Internationale Samenwerking, Vice Versa, OnzeWereld, DIF, NRC Next, NCDO and the Evert Vermeer Foundation.
Favourite place in Africa: Football field in Mathare, Nairobi. Watch the video about Metro Sports, a football team in Mathare. AfricaNews produced this pilot episode. Still looking for funding!
Project manager / editor. Bertil studied journalism in Utrecht and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He lived six months in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked for the Cape Times newspaper.
Favourite place in Africa: Lion's Head, the mountain on the right side of the Tafel Mountain that can been contemplated from Cape Town city centre. From its top, you have a fantastic sight of the city bowl , the districts of Green Point, Sea Point, Clifton, Camps Bay, and the Twelve Apostles, the Tafel Mountain, Devil's Peak and the Cape Flats. From there you can also see Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent his years in jail.
Responsible for Partnerships with organisations and companies. She has a Masters in Gender and Development and worked for Save the Children as programme manager. She was born in Mauritania, grew up in Ethiopia and has been to several countries in Africa.
Favourite place in Africa: Absolutely impossible to say. Every country has its special places :-)
Stefan Kuit
Responsible for video-editing and script development. He has a masters in
Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. Doing research on witchcraft for the University of Namibia he lived one year in Nyangana, northern Namibia.
Stefan has many years of experience both as cameraman and video-editor of
short documentaries, and worked as video journalist for the Volkskrant and VPRO.
Favourite place in Africa: Rundu, Namibia.
Responsible for video-editing and script development. He has a masters in
Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. Doing research on witchcraft for the University of Namibia he lived one year in Nyangana, northern Namibia.
Stefan has many years of experience both as cameraman and video-editor of
short documentaries, and worked as video journalist for the Volkskrant and VPRO.
Favourite place in Africa: Rundu, Namibia.
Commercial Development. Ben studied International Management in Boston before working in public relations, government, IT and media consulting. He has worked in New York, Amsterdam, parts of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Of all of the different places Africa continues to be the most interesting. Ben is drawn by Africa's fast growing economy and the opportunities presented by internet and mobile technology.
Favourite place in Africa: Internet cafes with printers....and Zanzibar
Editor of AfricaNews.com and part of the editorial team in Ghana. Kent holds a diploma in Journalism from the University of Education’s affiliate, Jayee Institute in Accra, Ghana. He owns a certificate in online journalism and multimedia. Kent has eight years working experience in print and online journalism.
Favourite place in Africa: Axim Beach, Western part of Ghana
Editor of AfricaNews.com and part of the editorial team in Ghana. Joseph's interest in journalism developed when he was young. He entered the Journalism school to study a two-year Diploma programme in Journalism. He has worked at many different Ghanaian media organisations.
Favourite place in Africa: Nzulezu, Ghana’s water village
Video-editor for Africanews.com. She holds a BFA Degree in Editing, awarded by the University of Ghana, Legon. Esme has gained lots of work experience from several media houses and television stations in Ghana. She loves to read and watch films of all genre.
Co-founder and advisor of Africa Interactive and initiator of the Africa Interactive Media Foundation. Pim de Wit was Chairman of the Board for Sanoma Publishers until November 2005 and has been a passionate of Africa where he has been travelling for years.
Favourite place in Africa: Luvuvhu River not far from Pafuri, South Africa.
Co-founder of Africa Interactive. Bas is a freelance journalist, writer and media consultant. He studied Social and Economic Geography at the University of Amsterdam. He toured 21 African countries, published three novels about Africa and wrote travel guides about ten African countries.
Favourite place in Africa: Guinea
Favourite place in Africa: North Africa
Mission
Africa Interactive aims to show a better balanced and multifaceted image of the African continent in international media. It is self evident that Africa has enormous potentials for reforms and growth. We are convinced that news stories, still and moving images about investing in Africa, nature, sports and culture need to be much more available to Internet users. Through our publishing activities and by opening our channels to our website visitors and users, we want to show that Africa is more than what the existing clichés have been showing.
One small detail: the word Africa means nothing. We are aware of that. Let us quote journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski: “The continent is too vast to be described. It is a true ocean, a planet on its own, a rich and varied cosmos. For the sake of taste, we can simply say: Africa. In reality, Africa does not exist. It is only a geographic entity”.