What does it take for African women to thrive in media, cultural, and creative industries? What happens behind the cameras, beyond the lights, and outside the spotlight? Who protects female journalists, authors, and filmmakers when their stories come with consequences? Who decides how African women are represented in media content, and how can we collectively be part of the solution?
These are the uncomfortable but absolutely necessary questions that drive Her Media Diary.
Hosted by Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola, a media development expert, academic, journalist, and leader with decades of experience inside the very systems that shape how our stories are told and who gets to tell them, this podcast is a space where critical conversations about women in media take center stage.
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Dr. Yemisi understands how women’s labor is often invisible, how our power, safety, and influence are frequently undermined, and why these realities must be interrogated. In each episode, she brings these questions to the forefront, not alone, but alongside successful African women, advocates, and experts who are shaping media policy, public life, and creative industries. These are women who understand the industry from the inside, question it from a critical distance, and push for media that does better for women and for society.
This official trailer invites you into a podcast where uncomfortable questions lead to powerful insights. By listening, you’ll walk away with tangible tools, better orientation, and a clearer understanding of yourself, your work, and the media environments you navigate. You’ll learn how to level up, advocate more effectively, and contribute to building more inclusive, accountable, and equitable media ecosystems across Africa.
00:00 Introduction: The Uncomfortable Questions We Need to Ask
00:14 Who Protects Women in Media? Safety and Consequences
00:20 Representation and Solutions: Who Decides Our Stories?
00:34 Meet Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola: Experience Across Media Systems
00:48 The Visibility Paradox: Labour, Power and Safety
00:55 Centering the Conversation: Voices of Successful African Women
01:08 Inside and Outside: Interrogating Media from Critical Distance
01:21 Why This Matters: Uncomfortable but Necessary Questions
01:29 What You’ll Gain: Tools, Orientation and Understanding
01:42 Join the Conversation: Where to Listen and Learn More
Interested in joining a future episode of Her Media Diary? Email: yemisi@africanwomeninmedia.com
You can also listen via our partner radio stations across Africa, and join the ongoing conversation using #HerMediaDiary.
Her Media Diary is produced by African Women in Media (AWiM), and this episode is sponsored by Luminate
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