Zimbabwe: Useful Journalism Advances Zimbabwe’s Development Story

Gibson Nyikadzino — The biggest threat to Africa’s journalism model is that it is a piece cut from the cloth of models of Western journalism that are highly commercial, capitalistic political discourses and thrive on self-centred goals that protect their ‘civilisation’.

African journalism has to be an alternative to that as it comes from a place that has been exploited, underdeveloped and marginalised. It is this journalism that should therefore uphold unity, community values and promote…