The Training of African Journalists

Teaching Journalism at a Distance: The Case of the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) (Harare Regional Centre)

“…These short-term courses were intensified after independence as a way of inculcating the patriotic journalism post-colonial governments wanted to see in the media. According to Hachten (1968) Zimbabwe like any other post-colonial African country wanted to see more Africans entering the journalism profession.…”

Teaching journalism or teaching African journalism? Experiences from foreign involvement in a journalism programme in Ethiopia

“…During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and its allies were active in educating various sectors of the African society, including the media industry. Hachten (1968) thus reports that there was competition between Western and Eastern European training institutes to pick the best African journalists for training. In East Africa, the Tanzania School of Journalism conformed with official socialist ideology in their training programme, which meant that several of its instructors obtained their diplomas from East Berlin (Murphy & Scotton, 1987).…”

“…One of the instructors who taught in Ethiopia as far back as 1963 was Mal Goode, the American "Dean of black journalism", in a two-week course organised by the African American Institute (Peabody, 1995;Hachten, 1968). What influence Goode brought to Ethiopian journalism is uncertain, but whatever ideas he wanted to convey they eventually needed to be accustomed to the media ideology of the empire, which basically meant portraying Emperor Haile Selassie positively and supporting Ethiopian pride.…”