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Zainab Bala and Bernadette Vivuya Win The Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling 12 May 2021 3:40PM UTC | By: ONE Campaign
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The winning entries
Bala, a Nigerian broadcaster with Viewer Television, produced The Almajiri, a gripping documentary that focused on children in northern Nigeria who left their homes for Islamic education in the nation’s capital where they were neglected and abused by their religious teachers. In graphic footage, she showed how some children were restrained in chains and others were forced to beg for food.
Vivuya’s winning entry focused on children in Congo who toiled in niobium, cassiterite, and coltan mines that produce raw materials used in making capacitors for electronic devices. Published by Equal Times, the story showed how Congolese children facing crushing poverty were forced into such backbreaking work and fell outside the