B The media & Kalabash

Magamba is a youth and cultural activist network using the arts since 2007 as a vehicle for expression under the highly restrictive conditions current in Zimbabwe. Magamba started the B the Media campaign in 2011, to promote free expression and demand accountability through new forms of media activism. Through workshops, young people gain skills in blogging, podcasts, video blogging, and newsletter writing, to cover both events that they organize themselves, as well as other social, cultural and political events. By providing a space where young Zimbabweans can express themselves, B the Media makes it possible to discuss the MDGs and improve life for people, while engendering further debate using the social media. In 2013, the B the Media team started the online e-newsletter Kalabash as an alternative space for the next generation of male and female Zimbabweans to share their views, whether personal, social, political or cultural.

“The MDGs provide the world with a benchmark, which we hope to step closer to.  The youth are at the core of closing in on the environmental, healthcare, educational and rights based goals outlined in the MDGs. Through a global network of justice seekers we can feed the need to change for the better.” (Nicholas Fallon Monro)