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World Service,09 Dec 1999,4 mins

Becoming a Journalist in Africa

My Century

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Cameron Duodu is a journalist who has been reporting on Africa for the international media. Here he talks about how he came into journalism from his childhood in a small village in eastern Ghana. "I could see that if I was in South Africa, job reservation would never allow me into the newsroom in the first place. I was immensely angry at this."

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