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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 Join 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 backbreakin ....
Nigerian Journalist, Zainab Bala Wins 2021 Michael Elliott Award Source: Michael V. Bolgent Listen to article The Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling will be presented to Zainab Bala, a broadcast reporter who revealed pernicious child abuse in Nigeria in 2021. The winner was chosen by a respected panel of judges from a pool of 130 applicants. The Almajiri, a compelling documentary created by Zainab Bala, a Nigerian broadcaster with Viewer Television and a host of #TheScoop With Zainab Bala show, focused on children in northern Nigeria who left their homes for Islamic education in the nation s capital, where they were abandoned and humiliated by their religious teachers. ....