Navigating Bamenda Part II:
JUNE 10th, 2024 6pm:
with STELLA MBUH
r0g_agency welcomes Mbuh Stella, an award-winning activist peacebuilder fighting disinformation, youth extremism, and online incitement to violence in Cameroon’s conflict-ridden North West Region. Bamenda, once known as Cameroon’s ‘City of the Future’, is the country’s third largest urban area, crippled for close to a decade by a vicious separatist insurgency.
Please join us in Navigating Bamenda, the second part of our #defyhatenow series featuring journalist Mbuh Stella. The event will be moderated by Decolonial Policy Advisor Valerie Viban at r0g_agency’s OPEN CULTURE OFFICE in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Knobelsdorffstr. 22
Mbuh Stella is an award winning freelance journalist based in Bamenda, in the North West Region of Cameroon, where she supports the #defyhatenow initiative through fact-checking, promoting conflict sensitive reporting and producing content for a range of Cameroonian TV stations. Passionate about putting a stop to hate speech and disinformation, Stella is a Cohort 2 Fellow of the African Fact Checking Fellowship Cameroon (#AFFC).
#defyhatenow in Cameroon seeks to support those voices acting against the conflict to go ‘viral’ within and outside the country – bringing the diaspora into the online peace building framework, bridging gaps of knowledge and awareness of social media mechanisms between those with access to technology and those without.