Blogger Team: Elizabeth Kameo

By Elizabeth Kameo

My name is Elizabeth Kameo. I am a 28 year old freelance journalist based in Uganda. I am currently working on a web publication that will cover women’s health issues in the East African region and which in time will be extended to the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa.

I chose to set up a web publication simply because media is fast embracing the world wide space. Further still, women’s health issues are not given enough coverage in the mainstream media in Uganda and many other African countries, yet they need to be addressed if we are to achieve development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

My journalism career began seven years ago at the New Vision, a government owned daily newspaper in Uganda where I worked for close to two years before moving on to the Daily Monitor an independent daily.

In 2004, ten journalist colleagues and I set up the Weekly Observer Newspaper. I was a Director and editor for two years before I moved on to freelance journalism.

Being a part of the people’s forum blog is a great opportunity for me to further explore blogging as a way of information provision and not just fun. I hope that at the end of this event, I will be able to use experience gained and incorporate it into my work as a journalist. I am glad to be a part of something that is a first in Uganda and also during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. It is always an honour for me to provide information to people who would otherwise not have been able to get access to it; that is why I am a journalist.

Here’s a short piece of audio created by me about my involvement in the event:

Download / open a low bandwidth file here.

Download / open a high bandwidth file here.

(A transcript will be posted shortly)