Voices From Africa: Babajide Alao of DaugembassyTV
Channel: Democracy Watch News
Date: 2022-01-12

From Toronto Babajide Alao reports. He works with  https://daugembassytv.com which strives to provide voice to people throughout Africa without the control of African governments whose censorsoring, intimidating, murdering, and imprisoning of journalists makes this very difficult in Africa. Nigeria is number one in Africa for danger to Journalists. For example, they tried to kill a lady that recorded with her phone on Instagram the military firing live ammo at citizens. Killing dozens of civilians at a peaceful protest. October of 2020 protest at Lekki Expressway Tollgate. Peaceful young people holding the Nigerian flag were murdered by the military killing dozens.
2020 Lekki shooting - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 2020_Lekki_shooting

Daugembassytv is based outside Africa in Canada to escape control and protect journalists. They use multiple media outlets to get their message out. For example, they have over 50,000 followers on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=daugembassy%20tv  They are also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/daugembassytv/?hl=en , YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU_vsO__mALHaKURNLekb8g , and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=daugembassy%20tv%20inc&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&position=0&searchId=67efa9e9-bdfb-401c-8ee0-7ccb69ebb383&sid=4kV . Africa currently gets very little media attention in the world. 

Babajide describes one of their initiatives to assist incarcerated youth in Africa. The Dream Again Prison and Youth Foundation  https://dreamagain.org.ng which provides training and education to those youths.

Babajide also describes the horrific conflict happening in Cameroon World Report 2021: Cameroon | Human Rights Watchhttps://www.hrw.org › 2021 › country-chapters › came…

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