Partners :: The Amazwi Villager

Partners

Amazwi’s Publication Partner Program

Amazwi and the Amazwi Villager’sPublication Partnership Program offers publications (and their readers) a unique journalism opportunity. The Amazwi Villager and its journalists are looking to team up with foreign publications in effort to increase the exposure of print media produced by rural southern Africans and focused on rural issues.

The Villager is written by rural African female journalists of Sotho and Shangaan descent and distributed in their home communities within the lowveld region of South Africa. Amazwi, a non-profit organization, publishes the Villager monthly.

In teaming up with Amazwi and one of our journalists, publications have the opportunity to provide their readers with reportage and personal stories from the inside. Unlike the urban-focused, parachute journalism that typically represents the issues and stories of southern Africans, Amazwi’s journalists can offer foreign publications (and their readers) a fresh perspective with cultural, regional, and historical context.

Would you like to become a Publication Partner with Amazwi?

Click here to download a Publication Partnership Program information packet for more information. If your publication would like to team up with Amazwi and an ‘Amazwi Villager’ journalist to offer your readers quality news focused on rural southern Africa, please contact Briget Ganske, our Managing Editor, to discuss partnership options further.

Samples of our work with partner publications

Street Children, The Big Issue (15 May 2008), by Thandi Mkhatshwa
My Aunt, The Big Issue (25 April 2008), by Linky Matsie
Marula Festival, Adungaow Magazine (May/June 2008), by Constance Rahlane
Church, Adungaow Magazine (May/June 2008), by Constance Rahlane
All Work Together at Mapusha Weavers, Village Life (June/July 2008), by Linky Matsie