{"id":2,"date":"2019-04-23T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:21:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The disaster mongering of the media and its concentration on those scenarios\u2026that make Africa seem less than a nurturing place for any imaginative and fulfilling life stretch credulity.<\/p>\n<p>-OKWUI ENWEZOR<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em style=\"font-family: 'Charis SIL', Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Africa Dispatch<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Charis SIL', Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;\"> is a publication produced aspart of New York University&#8217;s undergraduate Reporting Africa summer program at NYU-Accra. Over the course of six weeks, students undergo an intensive reporting rubric during which they generate stories that challenge the conventional Western mode of reporting on Ghana specifically and Africa more generally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Dispatch<\/em> Editor &amp; Program Assistant &#8211; Sam Broadway<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Professor &amp; Program Director &#8211; Chike Frankie Edozien<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disaster mongering of the media and its concentration on those scenarios\u2026that make Africa seem less than a nurturing place for any imaginative and fulfilling life stretch credulity. -OKWUI ENWEZOR Africa Dispatch is a publication produced aspart of New York University&#8217;s undergraduate Reporting Africa summer program at NYU-Accra. Over the course of six weeks, students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}