What’s Up Africa
Here’s a press release from Radio Netherlands:
Radio Netherlands Worldwide is launching a video blog ‘What’s Up Africa’ on its African website. This weekly video blog takes a look at African news in a fresh, funny and critical manner. RNW aims to combine independent information and humour in this new series in order to focus on socially relevant issues. The first episode can be viewed on http://www.rnw.nl/africa/video/rnw-africa-launches-video-blog.
What’s up Africa is presented by RNW producer Ikenna Azuike, who was inspired by the successful American video blogger Ray William Johnson. In his video blog Ikenna takes a quizzical look at what’s hip, hot, eye-catching or unusual in South, West and East Africa.
This video blog forms a fine addition to the African website’s news and current affairs stories. The topics handled in What’s up Africa range from lifestyle to politics, sport to music. The basic principle is that the content is always relevant for a young African audience and that there is a recurring Dutch element. In 2010 the Africa Desk launched Fun in Africa, in which stand-up comedians gave their perspective on the news from Africa. That series can still be viewed on www.rnw.nl/africa and www.rnw.nl/afrique.