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Togo: “Religious media have an important role to play in the education of young people,” according to a representative of the Ministry of Communication

"We expect a great deal from faith-based media in the education of young people," said Franck Missité, Chief of Staff to Togo's Minister of Communication and Media. He was speaking on Monday, November 22, at the inauguration of the fourth edition of the Lomé meetings, organized by FOMECAF (Forum of Francophone African Christian Media).

Faith-based media reaching out more to all citizens

"Faith-based media should reach out more to all citizens with themes that are not 100 percent religious," added the trained journalist. "It's important to vary the content. 75 percent prayer and preaching is enough. 25 percent culture and ethical and moral education would be good!"

This edition of the Lomé meetings will address the theme "Media & Generational Divide," with Abdoulaye Sangho, Director of Transworld Radio West and Central Africa (TWR), as the main speaker. Around fifty representatives from Christian media in Francophone Africa, including Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, DRC, Rwanda, and others, traveled for the training week. Additionally, about a hundred people are registered to follow it online.

"Media, make room for young people!"

"64 percent of the West African population is under 24 years old," stated Emmanuel Ziehli, president of Radio Réveil France, "and our media do not speak the language of young people. Furthermore, we do not cover topics that interest them. Let's be models of generational transition," he emphasized. Consequently, he asked radio managers to make room for younger people in their programming and among their journalists and presenters.

Emmanuel Ziehli also highlighted the dynamism of CICERI, the International Christian Center for Study, Research, and Information in Lomé, which, thanks to a team of young people aged 18 to 30, transparently organizes the Lomé seminars each year.

In addition to Abdoulaye Sangho, the main speaker, Juliette Kpessou, presenter at Radio Hosanna in Benin; Olivia Adiko, editor-in-chief of Radio La Voix de l'Espérance in Abidjan; Etienne Kiemdé, director of Radio Evangile et Développement in Burkina Faso; Illia Djadi, head of African relations for the NGO Open Doors; and Alphonse Teyabé, a media consultant in Cameroon, will also speak.

Meetings launched by Radio Réveil

The “Lomé” meetings were launched in January 2019. They offer Christian media professionals from French-speaking Africa the opportunity to participate in a week-long training program and to network in order to foster dialogue among professionals from different countries.

In January 2019, the Radio Réveil association in Switzerland, which produces radio programs for all Francophone regions, decided to invite its radio partners in Africa to a training session in Lomé to mark its 70th anniversary. About a hundred people participated in the event and signed the Lomé Declaration. The signatories committed to abandoning competition between evangelical and Protestant radio stations and to pooling resources to improve the quality of their programs. (c)

The FOMECAF website with the Lomé 4 program.

https://medias.africa/lome4
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French-speaking Africa: From November 22 to 26, Lomé 4 will focus on the theme “Youth and the Media”

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Press Release

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, FOMECAF officials have decided to hold the fourth edition of the Lomé Meetings from November 22 to 26, 2021. The event will focus on the theme “Youth and the Media” and will feature Dr. Abdoulaye Sangho, director of TWR Africa, as the keynote speaker. The event will be streamed publicly online, though the number of in-person participants will be limited to about 50.

Registration is now open for the Lomé 4 seminar

The fourth annual gathering of Christian media professionals from French-speaking Africa will take place November 22–26, 2021, in Lomé. The theme will be “Youth and the Media.” “We are seeing a generational divide in the French-speaking Christian world in Africa,” explains Pastor Etienne Kiemdé, director of Radio Évangile Développement in Burkina Faso. “The older generation no longer speaks the language, listens to the music, or uses the communication tools of young people—63% of whom are under 24 in West Africa!(1)” For many Christian leaders, the risk of failing to pass on the faith is now very high. “It’s time to reach out to young Africans, and it’s up to radio to lead by example,” adds Pastor Etienne Kiemdé.

Etienne Kiemdé (left, FOMECAF) and Abdoulaye Sangho (TWR speaker at Lomé 4) flank Emmanuel Ziehli (Radio Réveil France).

Dr. Abdoulaye Sangho as the keynote speaker

Dr. Abdoulaye Sangho, director of TWR Africa and a recognized and leading figure in the African Christian radio landscape, was unanimously selected as the keynote speaker. Dr. Abdoulaye Sangho, originally from Mali, lives and works in Côte d’Ivoire. He is the author of several books. He has also been awarded the rank of Commander of the National Order for his contribution to the development of the Christian faith in Côte d’Ivoire.

Number of speakers recorded on video

Lomé 4 will be similar to Lomé 3. Fifty (50) carefully selected participants will be invited to attend in person for plenary sessions and workshops. These sessions will be broadcast live and on-demand on the various social media channels of FOMECAF (Forum of Christian Media in Francophone Africa), particularly Facebook and YouTube. For the record, about 100 people participated in these training sessions online in 2020.

The afternoons will provide an opportunity for FOMECAF leaders to continue laying the groundwork for the forum’s activities and to develop a program for 2022.

Most of the speakers will be recorded on video. In this way, they will continue to contribute to the radio and press training video library launched in 2020 by the previous edition of the Lomé meetings (2).

Despite the difficult health situation

The decision to hold Lomé 4 was made by FOMECAF leaders who met via videoconference on Friday, July 30. They assessed the health situation in West and Central Africa as well as in Europe. For the time being, travel remains very difficult and particularly expensive due to the pandemic. Despite this, the FOMECAF leadership confirmed that Lomé 4 will take place and has reasonably postponed the “FOMECAF Benin” national event until spring 2022. FOMECAF leaders have entrusted CICERI Lomé and Radio Réveil France—specifically Messrs. Koffi Ahonon and Emmanuel Ziehli—with the task of organizing the event. (c)

The FOMECAF (Forum of Christian Media in French-Speaking Africa) website: https://medias.africa/

More information:

Africa: Pastor Étienne Kiemdé, director of Radio Évangile Développement in Burkina Faso. Tel. +226 70 38 81 83. Email: ekiem1[at]gmail.com. Website: https://medias.africa/

Europe: ÉEmmanuel Ziehli, Director of Radio Réveil France. Phone: +33 06 52 02 89 42. Email: emmanuel.ziehli[at]radioreveil.ch. Website: https://radio-reveil.org/

Notes:

1 See: https://www.populationpyramid.net/sources
2 See: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkEVvei_tLkEfTaJn31DTsQ/playlists

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The Lomé Meetings at a Glance

The “Lomé” meetings were launched in January 2019. They offer Christian media professionals from French-speaking Africa the opportunity to participate in a week-long training program and to “network” in order to foster dialogue among professionals from different countries.

In January 2019, the organization Radio Réveil en Suisse, which produces radio programs for the entire French-speaking world, decided—to mark its 70th anniversary—to invite its radio partners in Africa to a training session in Lomé. About 100 people took part in the event and signed the Declaration of Lomé. The signatories committed to ending competition between evangelical and Protestant radio stations and to pooling resources to improve the quality of their programs.

At the second edition of the Lomé Meetings, the approximately 170 participants engaged in a discussion on the theme “Let’s Invent Integral Radio!” They also decided to create the Forum of Christian Media in Francophone Africa (FOMECAF), with the following members on the founding committee: Olivia Adiko, journalist and editor-in-chief of La Voix de l’espérance (Ivory Coast); Dr. Alphonse Teyabe, communications consultant (Cameroon); Timothée Amegan, pastor and executive director of Médiafrique (Togo), and Emmanuel Ziehli, director of Radio Réveil (Switzerland).

In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lomé 3 offered a series of discussions on “Media Convergence and the Versatility of Professions” to about 50 in-person participants and about 100 online participants.

The Lomé 1 report: https://bit.ly/lome-1 
The Lomé 2 report: https://bit.ly/lome-deux 
The Lomé 3 report: https://bit.ly/Lome3 

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Members of the FOMECAF Committee

The following individuals are members of the FOMECAF core network or steering committee: Olivia Adiko Beugre(Radio la Voix de l’Espérance, Abidjan), Timothée Amegan(Médiafrique, Lomé), Etienne Kiemdé(Radio Évangile et Développement, Ouagadougou), Koffi Ahonon(CICERI and Compassion Togo, Lomé), Dr.Abdoulaye Sangho(TWR, Abidjan), Dr. Alphonse Teyabe(media consultant, Yaoundé), and Emmanuel Ziehli(Radio Réveil France).

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Registration is now open for the Lomé 4 seminar
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FREE COLLEGE and Radio R on August 21: “Developing Your Skills for Preaching on the Radio”

Radio R and FREE COLLEGE are offering a training day on Saturday, August 21, focused on radio preaching, led by radio professionals. Since the start of the partial lockdown in Switzerland in March 2020, Radio R, which broadcasts on DAB+, has opened its airwaves on Sundays to preachers, pastors, and church members so they can deliver sermons. This initiative has continued ever since and has found its audience.

Thinking About a Radio Communication Style

To explore how to speak on the radio and to help guests improve their performances, Radio R and FREE COLLEGE are offering a one-day training session to develop a communication style suited to radio, enhance the quality of guests’ delivery, and provide a supportive space for participants to listen to their own and others’ performances in order to refine their skills.

A day hosted by radio professionals

This event, which will feature radio professionals such as Christine Reymond, Daniele Zagara, and Serge Carrel, is open to anyone interested in preaching on Radio R or who would simply like to improve their preaching skills. (c)

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The Day's Schedule (Coming Soon)

“Developing Your Skills for Radio Preaching,” a one-day workshop co-organized by Radio R in Yverdon-les-Bains and the FREE COLLEGE on Saturday, August 21, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Location: Radio R, Galilée 15, Y-Parc, 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains. Cost: voluntary donation. Registration required: freecollege@lafree.ch or online at lafree.ch/free-college/journees

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#Lomé3: Minister of Communication Urges Journalists at Christian Radio Stations to Strive for Excellence

On Monday, November 23, 2020, FOMECAF launched the third edition of its training program organized by the Francophone African Christian Media Forum (FOMECAF). In his remarks at the opening ceremony, the Minister of Communication encouraged media professionals from religious radio stations to strive for excellence in communication.

“Information is both a resource and a weapon,” said Akodah Ayewouadan, the Minister of Communication, in his speech at the opening ceremony of Lomé 3. Ayewouadan, who also serves as the government’s spokesperson, said he was “impressed by the theme of media convergence addressed during the training week organized by the Forum of Christian Media in Francophone Africa (FOMECAF), because it helps promote excellence in communication.”

Read the rest of the interview on the lafree.info website

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The president of the Christian Council of Togo will attend the opening ceremony of Lomé 3

The Christian Council of Togo, in conjunction with the third edition of the training seminar for Christian media professionals in Francophone Africa.

With the third week of training for media professionals from Francophone Africa set to begin in a few days, the President of the Christian Council of Togo, Rev. Djakouti Mitré, received a delegation from the Lomé3 Organizing Committee led by Emmanuel Ziehli, Director of Radio Réveil Suisse. Following the meeting, the clergyman promised to attend the opening ceremony and to offer a prayer of blessing during the event.

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Lomé 3, the gathering of Christian media professionals, will take place from November 23 to 27, 2020

"The convergence of media and the versatility of professions" is the theme chosen for the third edition of the "Lomé" seminars. From November 23 to 27, about fifty Christian media professionals from Francophone Africa are expected in the Togolese capital. A new feature, given the health circumstances, is that the event will also be accessible via the web.

Lomé, August 25, 2020. The FOMECAF (Forum of Christian Media in West Africa), along with the associations Radio Réveil and CICERI, will organize the third edition of the 'Lomé' media training sessions in Togo from November 23 to 27. During this training week, the focus will be on media convergence and the essential versatility of professions related to journalism.

In-person and Online
Given the current health conditions, the 'Lomé 3' seminar will only host about fifty in-person participants, who will be accepted based on their applications. All other interested individuals will be able to follow the conference online. The organizers are adapting to the health situation and are committing extensive resources for high-quality web broadcasting.
Workshops will enable participants to develop their skills in image capture, web radio, animation, journalism, and mastering FM techniques.

Two Francophone African Radio Pioneers as Keynote Speakers
Abdoulaye Sangho, Director of Trans World Radio (TWR) Africa, and Illia Djadi, currently Africa Director for the NGO Open Doors and former Francophone correspondent for the BBC in West Africa, will be among the speakers. Businessman Kurt Buehlmann, author of the course '40 Days to Revolutionize Your Finances' and the radio program 'Your Money Matters,' will also lead a workshop dedicated to the economic management of media outlets. This will enable radio promoters and financiers to seek solutions for promoting the self-financing of their media.

The Future: Multimedia
Today, more than ever, media outlets are called upon to converge towards multiple distribution channels. The internet is gradually revolutionizing practices in West Africa, especially among young people, and impacting media. The challenge is no longer the establishment or ownership of a traditional broadcast channel (TV, radio, web, or print media), but the content itself. Anyone well-trained, especially young people, can create texts, sounds, and images from well-chosen topics and professional information processing, which can then be used across any distribution channel.

An Intense Week for FOMECAF
This week will also serve to strengthen ties among the members of FOMECAF, the Forum of Christian Media in West Africa. As a reminder, over 40 media outlets signed the 'Lomé Declaration' in early 2019, a founding charter for a network of West African media that emphasizes collaboration and exchange. Together, they signed a document summarizing this initiative, which now brings together about a hundred media outlets in ten Francophone African countries.

Website of the Forum of Christian Media in West Africa
Pre-registration
The Lomé Declaration
Radio Réveil France
CICERI Togo

 

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Presentation of the François Sergy Award to Dodji Juliette Kpessou

Dodji Juliette Kpessou Receives the François Sergy Encouragement Award

During the Training Seminar for Christian Radio Stations in French-speaking Africa, the organizers decided to award Dodji Juliette Kpessou, a journalist and host at Radio Hosanna in Porto-Novo, the François Sergy Encouragement Award for producing 50 audio segments titled “L’O2Vie, a Drop Every Day.”

“These programs by Dodji Juliette Kpessou exemplify what we hope to promote: the exchange of programs among Christian radio stations in French-speaking Africa,” explained Emmanuel Ziehli, director of Radio Réveil.

The François Sergy Encouragement Award was launched as part of the Lomé Weeks, an initiative aimed at training Christian media professionals in French-speaking Africa. It is designed to recognize initiatives that promote collaboration among radio stations. This encouragement award is named after François Sergy, a journalist with Radio Réveil who passed away in 2018.

Listen to “L’O2Vie, a Drop Every Day” on RADIO R

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Certificate Award Ceremony - Lomé 2

Christian radio stations in Francophone Africa are forming a network

To formalize their relationships, Christian radio stations in Francophone Africa have formed a network. About forty radio stations are already involved in this project, which aims to encourage collaboration and the sharing of professional resources. This decision was made during Lomé 2, the second training seminar for Christian radio stations in Francophone Africa, which took place from November 25 to 29 in the Togolese capital.

On Friday, November 29, the approximately 170 representatives of faith-based radio stations gathered in Lomé for a second training seminar on journalistic and radio techniques decided to launch a radio network. The objectives include fostering close relationships between radio stations in the same region or city, exchanging programs, providing mutual technical assistance, and developing a news agency capable of relaying news concerning the Christian and evangelical movement in Francophone Africa. All of this is in the spirit of the Lomé Declaration, signed on January 18, 2019.

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Speakers and Organizers of #Lomé2

170 media professionals from religious media outlets in French-speaking Africa are receiving training in “integral radio” in Lomé

In Francophone Africa, radio is the preeminent medium. For one week, approximately 170 representatives from faith-based radio stations are gathering in Lomé, Togo, for another training week. Jointly organized by the Radio Réveil association in Bevaix and Radio Ebène et développement in France, this week aims to enhance the quality of Christian radio stations in Africa.

On Monday, November 25, over 170 representatives from 72 faith-based radio stations across Francophone Africa gathered in Lomé, Togo, for a week-long training session on the theme 'Inventing Integral Radio.' During the opening session, the Minister of Communication, Folly-Bazi Katari, expressed his satisfaction that the seminar aimed to 'promote excellence within Christian media.' He also noted that 'this seminar came at a crucial time to address major challenges such as integrating new information and communication technologies, and promoting ethics and professional conduct.' The minister also urged faith-based media professionals to 'safeguard peace in our countries,' so that Muslims and Christians can peacefully attend their places of worship on Fridays or Sundays.

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In Lomé, Francophone African Christian radio stations urged to reinvent themselves – Togo Breaking News
African Christian radio stations strengthened to become integral – Togo Breaking News

Interview with Emmanuel Ziehli, Director of Radio Réveil

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