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Calling all budding reporters and established journalistos! Here is your opportunity to show off your journalistic skills and present your community news to the rest of the country. You can earn money in the process!

Your Community Newspaper, the Informante, is inviting members of the community to submit accurate and newsworthy stories to be featured in the newspaper. The stories should be original, the sources must be bona fides and the length of the submission no more than 500 words. Good quality photographs can also accompany the stories.

Stories must be in line with Informanté’s Editorial Policy which is available at www.informante.web.na or the Namibian Code of Ethics which can be accessed on line at www.mediaombudsmannamibia.org. Kindly note that the Editor reserves the right to authenticate the source and the story.

Informanté will pay as follow: 50c per word for an inside story, N$1 per word for a front page story, and between N$50 – N$250 for a quality picture. Send your story by email to editor@tgi.na. Please include your contact details at the end of your story, name, address, telephone/cell phone, e-mail, ID no and bank details (name, bank, branch code)

Contact Information:

For inquiries: editor@tgi.na

For submissions: editor@tgi.na

Website: http://www.informante.web.na

Company: Group Africa Publishing

Job Title: Writer

Location: Nairobi - Kenya

Employment Type: Part Time

Job Description

We are looking for a freelance writer (from Tanzania, Botswana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Rwanda).

The person must be self-driven and able to work without any supervision. Some journalistic background is required. We want someone who can write well in English. You will be required to carryout interviews and approach the relevant organizations on subjects related to mining, agriculture and construction. This is a part time job. If you can fit in this position, please go ahead and send us your resume.

Position Requirements

• Skills / Qualifications Required: must have good journalistic skills
• Minimum Education Level required: College
• Minimum Years of Experience required: 1 to 2 Years

THE PANAFSTRAG/NHC/PACON/NYCN WORKSHOP IN WINDHOEK,NAMIBIA, 7-9 DECEMBER 2010

The Pan-African idea and movement grew out of the desire of the Africans to rediscover and recover their identity and heritage and to fight for their liberation from colonialism and racism, thereby restoring their dignity as a people of equal standing with other people in the world. Pan-Africanism is part of a historical process, reflecting particular material conditions.
The Africans emerged into the modern era from African civilisations, through slavery to political emancipation, which provides a platform to address the outstanding issues of their dignity, one of which is cultural rediscovery. The other is the effective control of the economic destiny, by way of agriculture, technology, education, industrialisation and innovation, to create self-sustaining development within the framework of Pan-African unity.

In this trajectory the Pan-African Congress (PAC) series starting in 1900, lead to the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77), bringing us to the 8th PAC today. Resolutions and papers, representing benchmarks in this historical process should be accessed from the website of the National Youth Council of Namibia (NYCN) www.youthcouncil-namibia.org one of the partners in the convening of the Workshop 7 - 9 December 2010 in Windhoek, Namibia.

This Workshop convened by the Pan-African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG), Lagos, Nigeria, the Nigerian High Commission in Namibia (NHC) Windhoek, the Pan-Afrikan Centre of Namibia (PACON) and the National Youth Council of Namibia (NYCN), will focus on five programmatic themes :

· The Pan-Afrikan Centre of Namibia (PACON), as a role model for Africans

· The Pan-African Congresses and their outcomes, their place in the Pan-African trajectory

· The Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77) and its outcomes, held Lagos and Kaduna, Nigeria In 1977

· Keeping our eyes on the ball (2)’, being a paper, towards the convening of the 8 the PAC

· The attainment of economic self-sufficiency within the framework of Pan-African national unity.

Apart from the resource materials available at the NYCN website all invited to present papers by the Convenors of this Workshop, may address bfbankie@gmail.com for any further information they might require.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words related to the five above-mentioned themes should be sent to bfbankie@gmail.com not later than the 21st October 2010. The presenters of those Abstracts which are accepted should submit the first draft of their papers, being approximately 4000 words or more, by the 21st November 2011. By the 26th November those who have submitted papers will be informed if those papers are accepted and, where necessary, they should collect their return air tickets for Windhoek, Namibia.

THE PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM