Just 3 Nigerian babes in Perugia at journalism festival ✨ #IJF24

Stefania Okereke
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Day 2 of #IJF24 starts with a yummy latte (Italian-style of course) ☕️ and a zoom call in between sessions! 🏃🏾‍♀️

While traditional news outlets are losing trust, news influencers are gaining credibility. Despite the buzzword of news avoidance, these content creators manage to go viral with hard news - reaching the young target audience journalismfestival.com/programme/2024… #ijf24 journalism festival JOIN US

Excited to be back as a speaker at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy 🇮🇹 . A great time to meet colleagues across the world. #ijf24 journalism festival

Day 1 in Perugia: l attended the journalism festival for the 1st time, courtesy of We Are Black Journos & News UK .
Session: 'How I broke the story: sharing gender reporting best practice' moderated by Eliza Anyangwe (elizatalks.bsky.social) #wabjatijf #ijf24

Welcome!
We’re glad to have We Are Black Journos as part of the global community!🔥

Mama Mia 🇮🇹

Shortly before heading over to journalism festival for the second year in a row - but this time I’m rolling with We Are Black Journos 🙌🏾👌🏾

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Thank you Sparknews for hosting this lush aperitivo at journalism festival - and how fab to catch up with THE Hannah Àjàlá-Rahman and We Are Black Journos 💛 #ijf24

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Rome 🚍👉🏾Perugia

First panel session ✅ featuring a fave - Eliza Anyangwe (elizatalks.bsky.social) moderating this excellent panel on gender reporting ✍🏾

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The crew are here! Come say hey! 👋🏾 #IJF24 #WABJatIJF

My 55th country visit is super pretty Albania! 🇦🇱📍

If you are in beautiful Perugia, say hello to the brilliant Hannah Àjàlá-Rahman and the fellow journos We Are Black Journos. Best wishes to you all and all colleagues for an excellent Festival journalism festival #ijf24

Only a few days to go until We Are Black Journos grace journalism festival with our presence on our first international trip! 🙌🏾✈️🇮🇹

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‘What I learned driving solo as a woman from London to Lagos’

Travel enthusiast Pelumi Nubi shocked the world and her parents when she announced she was going to drive her Peugeot 107 solo from her adoptive city of London to her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria.

Nothing I love more than changing my hairstyles!

Chibok girls feel let down 10 years after Nigeria kidnapping - BBC News bbc.com/news/world-afr…

What’s with the policing/objectification (and stupid questions) around Black women’s hair?

From Hannah’s Heart: EPISODE 1! Watch here: instagram.com/reel/C5uAb22IR…

I am so excited to start on these and have so much in store!

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Ten years ago, 276 Nigerian school girls were abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok, Nigeria.

Those that escaped were promised support to re-build their lives, but what actually happened to the Chibok girls?

We went to find out.

Full film on BBC News (UK) 14.04.24

Nigeria just charged me $215 for a 1-month, single entry visa. For the 3rd time this year.

The visa is $25 but Nigeria charges a $20 'processing fee' & $170 for biometrics every time.

How can we achieve a borderless Africa - or AfCFTA - when visas are this hard?