Last day of submission is March 22, 2013.
GUIDELINES
‘A deep, very grave problem is undermining Africa : political impunity’, writes Philippe Orou Sica. ‘Because of it, political life is sometimes asphyxiated and criminalized. As soon as he accedes to power a Head of State feels that he is above all law. His political and ethic group therefore feel that they are also protected. On the one side, issues are repressed, and on the other, one can kill, assassinate political opponents in total impunity, wage war against the whole or a part of the population with a cynicism and a quietness of conscience that is the most peculiar. Nothing seems to dissuade those murderous forms of ‘politics’.’ To this definition that targets mostly the political aspect of impunity, one would have to add its social, economical, dimension, its relation to gender, to the military and numerous other aspects.
1. A Bibi Ngota Award for Journalism Against Impunity in Africa is therefore created in the memory of the Cameroonian journalist who died in prison on April 22, 2010, and was jailed because of his journalistic work.
2. The award celebrates a work of investigative journalism or of analysis published in any format that covers topics related to impunity in its economic, judicial, political, social aspects, and on human rights on the African continent. The articles submitted should have been published the year before the attribution of the prize (for instance between January 2012 and March 2013 for the 2013 award).
3. The award celebrates journalists based in Africa or in the Diaspora, but also non-African journalists working for Western media and who write on Africa.
4. The award’s amount is $1000.
5. A special mention of the jury highlights the work done by a Cameroonian journalist whose work has not been recognized. That special mention is not financial and is carried by the online journal ‘dix grammes d’info, dix minutes de lecture’.
6. Many submissions can be made by the same person.
7. Submissions in English and French will be accepted, and can be made by the journalists themselves, their colleagues or the board of their media.
8. For the moment, only submissions in English and French will be accepted.
9. The winner will be announced each year on April 22, on the day Bibi Ngota died.
10. The members of the jury are professional journalists, are 6 in number and will be designated each year. The list of jury members will only be published when necessary.
11. The designation of the awardee will be done by a majority of votes of the members of the jury. In case there is no majority, the president of the jury will cast a double vote to choose the winner.
12. Articles will be submitted at : bibingota@tribunalarticle53.com.
Last day of submission is March 22, 2013.
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It is most unfortunate that our own Mohammed Bouazizi came to us and we did not recognize him let alone know what to do with his call.It is worse that even till this day, those supposed to inform and educate the rest are still dwelling on the peripheral issues of Bibi Ngota's qualification rather than the core issue that he should have been the catalyst to help the nation come to terms with its elusive dream of pushing aside a rulership out of touch with the people.
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