Africa Investigateswas conceived by award winning African
journalists and investigators Sorious
Samura and Anas Aremeyaw Anas
together with Diarmuid Jeffreys
of Al Jazeera and Ron McCullagh
of Insight News TV (now Insight TWI: The World Investigates).
All too often in the past, African reporters have not been
able to pursue wrongdoing because it involves powerful figures who wield undue
influence over local media - financial, corporate or political - or
because it is simply too dangerous. Investigative journalism is a perilous
profession in many African nations, where intimidation, beatings, imprisonment
and death threats can be an occupational hazard. As a result they have often
had to sit idly by while Africa's story has been told by Western
correspondents, "parachuted in" for the purpose, who reinforce
stereotypical views about African people and their supposed inability to face
up to and solve their own problems.
It is this trend that Africa Investigates seeks to correct.
Since the launch of the first series in 2011, Africa
Investigates has empowered African investigative journalists to produce
impactful and award winning documentary films that have revealed the truth
about corruption and abuse across the continent (See list of some notable films
and synopsis attached).
Now in its third season, Africa Investigates seeks to
empower even more African Investigative journalists to tackle the biggest and
most important stories across the continent.
GhOne is a new addition to the EIB (Excellence in
Broadcasting) family with the vision to become the premier Information and
Communication Services Organization by leading our Market with a Global
Perspective.
As the hub of news, current affairs and entertainment
especially for the youth across the country, we are inspired to influence
society positively hence our partnership with Insight TWI; The World
Investigates and Al Jazeera International News Network in the broadcasting of
one of the most sought after award winning documentary films that has revealed
the truth about corruption and abuse across the continent.
At GhOne we are committed to serving our dear nation with
quality news, current affairs and entertaining productions with the mindset of
inspiring our viewers with thought provoking television content. In View of this
GhOne Television is happy to partner with Insight TWI; The World Investigates
and Al Jazeera International News Network to give Ghanaians the opportunity to
view the Africa Investigate Documentary Film Series on GhOne Television.
List of Africa Investigates Films
Fools Gold
Ghana is the second-largest producer of gold on the
continent and is now home to a large network of gold fraudsters. But the new
gold rush has come with a big rise in scams and confidence tricks. They
now represent a major threat for companies and individuals and many of them
take place in Africa.
Investors have lost millions at their hands.
In this investigation, we go undercover to lift the lid on
this illusory pot of gold.
Zimbabwe’s Child
Exodus
Over the past decade, tens of thousands of Zimbabwean
children have taken quite remarkable risks to smuggle themselves across the
border into South Africa. For the most part they are acting illegally, and most
travel alone or unaccompanied by adult relatives, but it is the only way that
many of them feel they can escape the debilitating poverty, disease and
violence they have experienced under Robert Mugabe's regime. Zimbabwe's Child Exodus is a searing
investigation into a phenomenon, ignored by much of the world's media, that has
seen school-aged African children struggling for survival and facing a
dangerous and uncertain future.
Sierra Leone: Timber!
Illegal logging is laying waste to Sierra Leone’s endangered
forests. Despite years of laws and bans, its precious timber is still being
exported abroad and unless something is done the country’s woodlands will have
been destroyed within a decade. So why can the authorities not do more to
stop it?
In this edition of
Africa Investigates, reporter Sorious Samura exposes the high level
corruption that is stripping his homeland bare.
Liberia: Living with
Ebola
On a journey to the epicenter of the Ebola epidemic,
award-winning journalist Sorious Samura follows Liberia's poorly paid and
ill-equipped health workers as they risk their lives to treat the infected and
recover the bodies of the dead.
Ghana Gold
Spell of the Albino
In this remarkable episode of Africa Investigates, Tanzanian journalist Richard Mgamba, albino
community representative Isaack Timothy and Ghanaian investigative journalist
Anas Aremeyaw Anas set out to Investigate the sinister trade in the body parts
of murdered albinos in Tanzania.
In the process they meet two albino children, victims of
vicious assaults that occurred in the weeks the film was being made. One of
them is a 12-year-old boy who had part of his hand cut off, allegedly with the
connivance of his father who is now in police custody and awaiting trial. The
other is a 16-year-old girl whose left arm was hacked off by a stranger with a
machete.
Zimbabwe: Stealing
Lives
Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of HIV and AIDS in the
world; nearly 15 pecent of the population carry the virus. Hundreds of
thousands of Zimbabweans are kept alive by anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) given
freely by aid agencies on condition that they are not re-sold and that they are
used for treating those in need. The drugs have played a vital role in stabilizing
a situation that was running out of control a decade ago, citing the death rate
by more than two-thirds.
As Zimbabwean health reporter Cassim John discovered while
making this disturbing film for Africa
Investigates, the medicines are somehow being siphoned out of hospitals,
clinics and the national pharmaceutical network and then sold on the black
market – often for use as recreational narcotics.
So who is responsible for this illegal trade and why is it
being allowed to flourish?
Nigeria's Fake
Doctors
Take a drive though any city or large town in Nigeria and
the chances are you will come across numerous privately owned health clinics, doctor's
surgeries and hospitals. They are so widespread because Nigeria's state-run
health system – ranked at 197th out of 200 by the World Health Organization –
is chronically underfunded and so overstretched that it simply cannot meet all
the demands made on it. Private medicine fills the gap and in the best cases,
at least for those who can afford it, it can provide a valuable alternative
service.
Two journalists go undercover to delve into the disturbing
world of West Africa's quack doctors.
Ghana: Food for
Thought
Following the discovery of oil in 2010, Ghana is on the road
to becoming one of Africa's more economically successful countries. But it is
not quite there yet and still ranks 138th out of 187 countries in the 2014
Human Development Index.The most obvious signs of this poverty are found in the
north of the country, where most of the population are small scale subsistence
farmers who have to battle with poor soil quality, an erratic rainy season, and
recurrent floods and droughts. These problems in turn often lead to serious
food shortages and high rates of malnutrition.
In this episode of Africa
Investigates, Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas sets out in search
of the answers and unveils a truly shocking tale of theft and corruption.
Uganda: Temples of
Injustice
Judicial corruption undermines the fabric of any modern
society. If the police routinely take bribes and court officials are for sale
to the highest bidder, then justice is put beyond the reach of ordinary people
and it becomes impossible to trust the law.
But as this episode of Africa Investigates reveals, that is exactly what is
happening in Uganda. Local journalist Emmanuel Mutaizibwa goes in search of
bent cops and crooked lawyers. His film - much of which was filmed undercover
in and around one court on the outskirts of the capital Kampala - reveals that
corruption in the judiciary is disturbingly commonplace.
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ReplyDeleteGhana is becoming the best film nation in investigative movie making.
ReplyDeleteThat's what films should be all about...telling on the society & ills of African political leaders.
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