Category: World Service
Date: 13.07.2006
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afrique, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s French for Africa service, has awarded Cameroon teacher
Daniel Ndongbou first prize in its ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afrique Talents competition.
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Daniel
will receive one million CFA Francs for his radio feature on Cameroon female bus
drivers.
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He beat more than a hundred budding radio journalists invited to produce a
radio feature on a subject of their choice.
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There are only
a dozen female bus drivers in Cameroon and Daniel's report explores how they continue to attract
controversial attention.
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Daniel, who also had a feature shortlisted in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Afrique Talents in 2001, teaches in the city of Yaoundé in Cameroon.
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He said: "I am delighted. It is such an honour to have my work recognised by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
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"I
have loved radio since I was a child because my father listened to it all the
time."
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Organiser of the competition, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afrique senior producer Estelle Cornado, was
joined on the judging panel by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ producer Maimouna Jallow, Cameroonian
writer Luc Bassong and Chadian playwright Nocky Djedanoum.
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Estelle Cornado said: "Daniel was selected as the winner because his report was
original, lively and well-crafted.
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"We were equally impressed by the high
quality and the originality of subjects submitted by all the participants and
struck by their sincerity and audacity - there are lots of very talented radio
programme makers out there."
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The second prize went to Richard Pituwa, a journalist from Bunia in the DR Congo
who won a minidisk recorder.
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His report looked at difficulties faced by young
people who return their weapons after the civil war.
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The third prize of a solar
radio went to Alice Bafiala who has a degree in journalism from the University
of Kinshasa, DR Congo.
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She focused on pastors who target bus commuters.
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The
fourth prize winner of a short wave radio was awarded to Jocelyne Amoussou, a
freelance journalist in Cotonou, Benin.
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She produced a feature looking at the
expense of funerals.
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The fifth prize went to Marius Song from Yaoundé, Cameroon
who also received a short wave radio.
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She followed the lives of people who work
in unofficial roles in public administrations in Cameroon.
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Notes to Editors
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afrique is the world's reference radio in francophone Africa and can be
heard on FM in a dozen French-speaking African countries including Burkina Faso,
Senegal, Mali and DR Congo.
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It can be accessed online at bbcafrique.com.
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