The African Investigative Journalism Conference is excited to announce that Mimi Mefo, an award-winning Cameroonian journalist and currently an intern at Deutsche Welle in Germany, will deliver this year's Carlos Cardoso Memorial Lecture. Mefo has recently completed five months as English PEN’s writer-in-residence. 

As a student at Wits, Carlos Cardoso was deported to Mozambique in 1974 because of his support for the Frelimo government. He became a journalist, and while investigating political and financial fraud. He was assassinated in Maputo on 22 November 2000. The annual Carlos Cardoso Memorial Lecture is part of the prestigious 15th edition of the African Investigative Journalism Conference hosted by Wits Journalism.

The lecture will take place on Monday 28 October 2019 at the Wits Science Stadium. Please click here for more details and how to RSVP.  You need not have registered for the 2019 African Investigative Journalism Conference to attend this lecture.

Other confirmed speakers includes winners of the Global Shining Light, Wole Soyinka and Taco Kuiper awards such as John-Allan Namu, Anas Anas, Maggie Michael, Jacques Pauw, Pauli van Wyk and Joseph E. Stiglitz to name, but a few of the 90 speakers from at least 36 countries.

More than 67 sessions are planned including panels and discussions on being a women investigative reporter, the ethics of undercover reporting, investigating for profit or cause? The conference will also include tracks on the latest in cutting edge digital tools and techniques including using satellite imagery, environmental sensors, robot journalism, and uncovering the secrets of the web.

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We look forward to meeting you this October

#AIJC19 Team