Change Radio

Change Radio (CR) is a radio script service that provides news and features on environment and development issues in the form of radio scripts.  The publication was first started in 1997 as an environmental monthly, called WWF Radio, under the auspices of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).  When CFC took over the publication in 1998,  it broadened its focus to include development issues – including articles on health, labour, agriculture, human rights, gender, communications and technology.

CFC produces the script in English and translates it in to Nigeria’s three main ethnic languages, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo.  Because CR is also being distributed in West Africa, which is mostly French speaking, CR’s French edition took off in June 1999, after the project successfully recruited a reliable French translator.  Today, the publication is sent to all radio stations in Nigeria, Africa related organisations in sub-saharan Africa, Europe and the United States, as well as to radio stations and contacts in West Africa.

Some of the issues recently highlighted were HIV-AIDS in Africa, micro-credit as an engine for growth in developing countries, international women’s conferences in Namibia and New York, pollution and global warming, violence against women, children and women’s human rights, the trade of endangered species, ethno-botany, press freedom awards and development broadcasting.

If you or your organisation would like to receive Change Radio, please either send your name and email address to cfc@hyperia.com or send your Name and Contact Address to:–
The Editor, Change Radio,  P.O. Box 56283, Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.

Back issues of the Change Radio are available for download as Adobe Acrobat pdf documents here.