Guerrilla keyboards

Source: Free Press They were African journalists known as “ guerrilla typewriters ”. The reason they were called as guerrillas was not because they took up arms to overthrow government, but because they stood up with their pens against the authoritarian regimes in Africa. Guerrilla typewriters gathered at the “Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Media” seminar, which was organized by UNESCO in Windhoek, N amibia on 29 April-3 May 1991. They undersigned “ Windhoek Declaration ” calling for free, independent, and pluralistic media in Africa. The declaration spearheaded other regional seminars and became a benchmark for press freedom in the following decades. It also inspired the United Nations to designate 3 May as the World Press Freedom Day . It is certain that this initiative, at the very beginning of the democratization wave of the 1990s, had an impact on securing and advancing press freedom in Africa. Yet, press freedom suffers from ser...