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Bakody, Jennifer, 1974-
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Bakody, Jennifer, 1974-
Radio Okapi.
Radio stations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Radio broadcasting -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Women journalists -- Nova Scotia -- Biography
Women journalists -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Journalists -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
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Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel.
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Bakody, Jennifer, 1974-
Bakody, Jennifer, 1974-
Radio Okapi.
Radio stations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Radio broadcasting -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Women journalists -- Nova Scotia -- Biography
Women journalists -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Journalists -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Journalists -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1997-
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Radio
Okapi Kindu : the station that helped bring peace to the
Congo
: a memoir / Jennifer Bakody.
by
Bakody, Jennifer, 1974-
Figure 1 Publishing, 2017.
Call #:
384.54 B168r
Subjects
Bakody, Jennifer, 1974-
Radio
Okapi.
Radio
stations
--
Congo
(
Democratic
Republic
)
Radio
broadcasting
--
Congo
(
Democratic
Republic
)
Women journalists
--
Nova Scotia
--
Biography
Women journalists
--
Congo
(
Democratic
Republic
)
--
Biography.
Journalists
--
Nova Scotia
--
Biography.
Journalists
--
Congo
(
Democratic
Republic
)
--
Biography.
Congo
(
Democratic
Republic
)
--
Description and travel.
Congo
(
Democratic
Republic
)
--
History
--
1997-
ISBN:
9781927958971 (pbk.)
Description:
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
When Jennifer Bakody steps off the plane in the
Democratic
Republic
of the
Congo
in 2004, she walks right into the hardest and most inspiring job an idealistic young journalist from Nova Scotia could ever imagine. Six years of war involving eight countries and several million deaths have just ended in a ceasefire. A week later, Bakody finds herself two thousand kilometres up the
Congo
River in the heart of the jungle, managing a small UN-backed
radio
station. Welcome to
Radio
Okapi Kindu. Welcome, too, to its team of hard-working local reporters determined to cover the country's rapid march towards elections. One day rebel soldiers are walking out of the jungle and handing in their weapons; the next the station is airing comedy sketches and messages asking after missing people. When a public lynching is followed by an outbreak of violence, Bakody begins to realize how little she understands Congolese politics--and how little she has at stake compared to her colleagues, several of whom will die in the next decade. Maintaining the rigour of
Radio
Okapi's editorial line suddenly seems like a matter of life and death. Can one small station known as the "frequency of peace" stand the strain? A memoir of a young journalist's coming of age and a love song to a poor but astonishingly beautiful country recovering from six years of war. Jennifer Bakody grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and studied journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax. She currently lives in Paris.
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Memoirs.
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