In today’s world and with social media the children are going to learn about that which is a taboo in this country which is homosexuality. - Audrey Gadzekpo

The opportunity to do good research certainly. However, additionally, the networking and the other processes, such as training workshops, around the grant meant that I had the opportunity to engage multiple times with other grantees and to be mentored in that sense to sort of reshape my ideas. I also had the opportunity to organize a regional training workshop for practicing journalists in the West African sub-region on reporting about peacebuilding, with a couple of APN grantees as resource persons. One of them, Dr. Peace Medie, just last week sent me a published article based on an aspect of the lecture she gave for that workshop. So it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle of sharing ideas and research and publication opportunities.

It was discovered that in most of the media houses, there was no clear-cut promotion mechanisms.

As we globalise and link up with the wider world, we need to always be reminded of what makes us unique.