Citizen Journalism powered Democracy

While I was talking about exciting times ahead when Africa opens up to Citizen Journalism, the citizens in Africa were already into it albeit with a twist. Since the entire Africa consists of fomer colonies of Great Britain, France or Portugal the language of Officialese is not the language of the people. So the written word is still to inspire popular imagination as more often than not it is in an alien tongue. So what is seen is CJ powered radio broadcasts. A good story on this phenomenon has been published by allafrica.com credited to the Inter Press Service (Johannesburg). The writer Linus Atarah reporting in from Helsinki in his story Africa: Citizen Journalism Opening Up Political Space gives a live example of Ghana where Citizens are questioning ministers in live radio broadcasts, something unheard of in Africa.