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Mar 10

MEDIA EMPATHY? WHAT MEDIA EMPATHY?

  MEDIA EMPATHY? WHAT MEDIA EMPATHY? By CAMERON DUODU* *Author of The Gab Boys (Andre Deutsch, London.) The first international story that aroused empathy in me as a young Ghanaian journalist was the Soviet invasion of Hungary in November 1956. I empathised with the weak Hungarians who were being battered by the strong “Russian bear”. …

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Dec 07

THE UNKNOWN NELSON MANDELA by CAMERON DUODU

—————————————————– THE UNKNOWN NELSON MANDELA By CAMERON DUODU I first met Nelson Mandela at Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg. It was in September 1990, and I was in Johannesburg as the guest of Jim Bailey, the publisher of the Pan-African Magazine, Drum. I had been the Ghana editor of this paper in1961-65 and Bailey wanted me …

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