His father was a legend of African media: breaking story after story, bringing the 1984 Ethiopia famine to the world, still filming after losing an arm in an explosion, then dying in a hijacked plane crash.

The son of Kenyan journalist Mohamed Amin, Salim Amin wanted to take on a different challenge – making African voices telling African news available to the world. In 2007 he launched the first pan-African news network. Amin sees the project as “stepping out of the shadow” of his father while also honouring his ideals.

“His entire life he wanted to see Africans telling their own stories. He did not want to see foreign correspondents on this continent, and he worked with enough of them,” Amin says.

His new project is A24 Media – a 24-hour news channel about Africa, covered by Africans. This is a lesson Salim took for his father – Africa must be covered by Africans.

http://www.a24media.com

Please also have a look at the photography site of A24 Media.

http://photography.a24media.com

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