Library weekly: Pius Njawé

Pius Njawé (Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 3.0, Ukkel)On 12 July 2010, Cameroonian journalist and director of Le Messager Pius Njawé died in a car accident in Chesapeake, Virginia, US. Arrested over 100 times for his reporting, Njawé won several awards for his work, including the 1991 CPJ International Press Freedom Award and the 1993 Golden Pen of Freedom. In 2000, he was named one of International Press Institute's fifty World Press Freedom Heroes of the previous fifty years. Pius Njawé is featured in our Library Weekly.

Posted on 10 July 2023, last modified on 17 July 2023