AFRICAN YOUTH MEDIA ALLIANCE

...engaging media for youth development  




 
YOUTH NEWS AFRICA TELEVISION is an activities of AFRICAN YOUTH MEDIA ALLIANCE (AYMA)  a youth-led media organization founded on September 2006 by Olumayowa Adeyemi-Adeniran, as an initiative to engage the mass media in promoting and reporting African youth activities and to build capacity for youth development.
 
 
YOUTH NEWS – AFRICA
…creating emerging leaders
 
YOUTH NEWS-AFRICA is
-a television news featured program about the many ways that African youth are celebrated through their various activities, responds to or helps us to understand what African youth are doing on the continent…. from social work to emerging leaders, events in rural areas from environmental struggles, child abuse, to entertainment, young entrepreneur from African countries to global world.
 
-Made up of 30-45 minute featured news styles stories from contributors and media networks all over the continent.  YONA are based in great television broadcast – sound that creates pictures.
 
-Topical - YONA shall respond to news and events that are happening on the continent and youth activities, giving African youth media coverage.
 
-On the screen once a week
:         Week day – Morning / Evening 
:         YONA not a show about world news…but it’s a show about new African Youth that engage fellow youth in developmental activities from HIV/AIDS to MDGs, gender equality to ICT campaign  to leadership role.  But we play a lot of music from all over the continent to connect feelings to the news and current affairs of what African youth are doing.
 
YOUTH NEWS AFRICA is to showcase that:
 
:         Some African youth are doing very well and taking dangerous risks to help fellow youths.
:         Some African youth are and doing poorly.
:         Young African people need a variety of exposure to discover their talents and intellectual capacity for self development.
:         Some African youth with disabilities, less privilege or orphans of all kind are neglected.
:         Some African youth needs special counseling to find emotional support.
 
The T.V. program is designed to showcase the activities of African youths in the development process, to inform the government, stakeholders, internationals communities and the private sector that there is hope in investing on the youths for continential growth.