Sheriff Bojang Jr.

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Sheriff Bojang (mostly Sheriff Bojang, Jr. in the media ; * around 1978 or 1983 in Kerewan or Brikama ) is a Gambian journalist and broadcaster.

Life

Bojang worked from April 1998 to June 2001 as a journalist for The Daily Observer and then from September 2001 to October 2002 for The Independent , the Alagi Yorro Jallow heard before in 2001 or 2002 in London political asylum in the UK applied for and law and literature studied .

He flew to The Gambia in March 2007 to visit his dying father. The security officers at Banjul International Airport only held him for five days. Bojang suspected it was because he had participated in anti-Jammeh protests in London. When they released him, they took his Gambian identity papers from him. Bojang quickly made his way back to his hometown before setting off for exile in Dakar .

Between September 2009 and September 2011 he worked in Dakar for West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) as a producer and broadcaster. From May 2012 to June 2012 he was a communications consultant at UN Women Liberia. He continued to work for a number of European newspapers and radio stations, including Radio France Internationale (RFI), a French current affairs radio station. Also with the BBC , Al Jazeera , France 24 , Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW), The Guardian , New African magazine and the Chinese news agency Xinhua .

On January 21, 2017, immediately after Adama Barrow's change of government , Bojang returned to Gambia. Since September 2018 he has been editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper The Chronicle , which he founded and appeared for the first time on February 17, 2019.

In September 2018, the Gambia Press Union (GPU), the umbrella organization representing all media professionals in Gambia, was elected for a three-year presidency .

family

Sheriff Bojang Jr. is the younger cousin of former Gambian Minister of Information Sheriff Bojang .

Awards and honors

  • 2011 - For his documentary Rape and Domestic Violence in Senegal about the incidence of rape in Senegal, he won first prize in 2011 at the “Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Award”, which was organized in Rwanda by the Washington-based organization Search for Common Grounds .
  • 2011 - For his documentary film FGM in West Africa he won the 3rd prize of the "Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Award" in 2011
  • 2012 - Runner-up for the FitzGerald Prize for Young African Journalists
  • 2015 - He was a finalist for CNN's "African Journalist of the Year 2015" award for his coverage of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Perfect, David, 1960-: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifthition edition. Lanham, Maryland 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 , pp. 63-64 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Anna Roxvall & Johan Persson: The President Who Refused to Leave. In: blankspot.se. Blankspot, February 17, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2020 (sv-SE).
  3. ↑ a b Alieu Khan: After 15 years in exile, famous journalist Sheriff Bojang Junior returns home. In: whatson-gambia.com. www.whatson-gambia.com, accessed July 12, 2020 (UK English).
  4. ^ A b Ricci Shryock: You Can Go Home Again: One Gambian Journalist's Story - Voice of America - English. In: voanews.com. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Sheriff Bojang Jr., Author at The Chronicle Gambia. In: chronicle.gm. Retrieved July 12, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ Sheriff Bojang succeeds Emil as GPU president. In: kerr-fatou.com. September 8, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Sheriff Bojang Jr, the younger cousin of former Gambian information ... In: gettyimages.de. Getty Images, accessed July 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bojang, sheriff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bojang Jr., sheriff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian journalist and broadcaster
DATE OF BIRTH 1978 or 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerewan or Brikama