Jimbi Media

About Jimbi Media

Jimbi Media (JM) is a company that assists African visionaries, writers, leaders, artists and trendsetters of African descent to realize and to perfect their work, as well as to find and to satisfy their audiences. As the first part of this process of bringing African innovators and thinkers to their audiences, Jimbi Media will provide a beautiful, customized, upgradeable website for free. JM will not control the content nor interfere with the creative processes of the individuals and groups invited to assist this process.

So, what is 'Jimbi'?

Exemples d’initiatives de journalisme citoyen en Afrique - JimbiMedia

JimbiMedia a été constitué, notamment avec pour objectif premier d’utiliser la technologie accessible des blogs pour donner une présence plus accrue en ligne aux voix africaines clés (créateurs, pionniers, universitaires, journalistes, etc.) à travers des blogs personnels qui pourraient facilement être mis à jour de partout au monde. Le logiciel utilisé, très simple, ne demande comme pré-requis que des connaissances de base en informatique pour qu’on soit capable de l’utiliser. Cet aspect se révèle critique dans un contexte où de nombreuses salles de rédaction ne peuvent toujours pas s’offrir des ordinateurs et la sophistication technique nécessaire pour utiliser leur plein potentiel.

Free lunch? Cameroon's diaspora and online news publishing

Lilian N. Ndangam - Rhodes University, South Africa (New Media & Society, Vol. 10, No. 4, 585-604 (2008)

Abstract
Using a case study of The Post newspaper in Cameroon, this article examines an alternative model through which a media organization located within the `have not' side of the digital divide is publishing online. A skills inadequacy in the newsroom and a relatively weak telecommunications infrastructure in the country have prompted the newspaper's online version to not only target a diasporic audience, but rely on the expertise and resources of this audience in the development and administration of its website. Illustrating this mode of collaboration between the diasporic audience and the newspaper and detailing its implications for news production and editorial decision-making, this article argues that this model of online news publishing, rarely evidenced in the literature, illustrates the nature and significance of transnational relationships in the diffusion and adoption of online publishing. It simultaneously reflects an alternative transnational practice through which African migrants engage with their home of origin.

How JimbiMedia Gave The Post Newspaper an Online Presence

By Lilian Ndangam (Rhodes Journalism Review, No 26 September 2006)

Despite the proliferation of African newspapers online, many newsrooms around the continent still grapple with some difficult questions: How does a newspaper with no access to a computer linked to a modem create and maintain a website?

Why and how do you start publishing online when the print run of your hard copy ranges between 3 000 and 4 000, and your target audience is an urban-based, literate minority? In fact, why bother with online publishing in a country where computer ownership is very low and few people have regular access to the Internet? Enthusiastic about going online, yet challenged by these questions, Cameroon’s The Post– a private bi-weekly, English-language newspaper with a print run of 4 000, found one answer: the Cameroonian Diaspora.

We Bring You To Your Audience And Your Audience To You

There are many powerful African voices, creative people, trendsetters and leaders who are unable to reach their audiences. Jimbi Media will create a credible web presence for you, and bring your audience to you.

FOR FREE!

Further, only if you desire it, Jimbi Media shall help you to publish, create and market your creative works, and again, bring you your audience and your customers.

Book Titles

Jimbi Media is currently working on three titles, to be published during 2005. But, in these days of the blog, books are obsolete, right? We don't think so. Nothing can match the raw and candid urgency of a skilled blogger, but like anything put together in a hurry, there are bound to be errors, mistatements etc. A book, properly done takes time and should be polished until it is perfect. That is why we are doing books too.