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#ÁfricaesNoticia: Periodismo y compromiso. Una cita con Rosa María Calaf y Gemma Parellada
Once again, we’re hosting a new conference in the cycle #ÁfricaEsNoticia, Casa África’s own programme which aims to foster debate and reflection on the burning issues of Africa today.
The appointment with African current affairs will be on Wednesday 9 December, at 19:30 in Casa África’s Nelson Mandela Auditorium where we will have the opportunity to hear from two journalists with great experience on the African continent: Rosa María Calaf and Gemma Parellada.
In this new edition of #Áfricaesnoticia, we reflect on Africa and journalism, on international journalism, on the clichés and stereotypes, on what we are told about the continent and what we are not told.
At this conference, we will hear the reflections of Rosa María Calaf, who is possibly the best known and most respected Spanish correspondent in our country, about international journalism and its perception in Spain.
Beside her, Gemma Parellada, a young reporter but one who has ten years of experience in the field, who will show her latest work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a journey that has led her so far as to venture inside the coltan mines. Coltan is the material from which our smartphones are made, and its exploitation continues to be the source of, and background to, much injustice and insecurity in Africa.
Rosa María Calaf Solé is without doubt one of this country’s most important journalists. She is a former RTVE correspondent, has a degree in law from the University of Barcelona and a degree in journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She was invested with Honorary Doctorates by the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona in 2008 and by the Miguel Hernández University in Elche in 2010. Until recently, Rosa María Calaf has been TVE’s longest serving correspondent, with 37 years of journalism behind her. For decades, she has been successively correspondent in New York (1984-1987), Moscow (1987-1989 and 1996-1999), Buenos Aires (1989-1993), Rome (1993-1995), Vienna (1996), Hong Kong (1998-2007) and Beijing (2007-2008). She was also TV3 programming director in 1983. In over three decades of professional experience, she has been in over a hundred and sixty countries, microphone in hand, looking for the news.
Gemma Parellada is a reporter in sub-Saharan Africa, a region which she has spent a decade touring, writing and living in the continent. She was based in South Africa for seven years and she currently lives in the Ivory Coast. She is the CNN Spanish language correspondent, a contributor to CNN, a writer for El País and the Spanish language correspondent for Radio Catalunya and RFI, apart from her travel journals and highly recommended website. Her work has been broadcast and published in various international media (El Mundo, HBO, AFP, the literary journal Pie Izquierdo, Público, Periodismo Humano, RCN, TV3, Diari Ara and others) and she was editor of the EFE Agency in the office that coordinates the southern Africa region, previously based in South Africa and now in Nairobi (Kenya).
