CITI FM’s Nana Boakye-Yiadom has finally been named winner of the African Story Challenge. 
Nana Boakye-Yiadom overcame stiff competition from Diana Neille of eNCA South Africa who eventually placed first runner-up while Alex Chamwada of citizen TV Kenya came third.
Nana Boakye-Yiadom worked on the possible impact of mobile market information on rural farmers in the Food Security category which aims to educate farmers on the important role that mobile market information plays in making agriculture a successful venture on the African continent.
The three were selected from a total of twenty finalists from various African countries including Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Malawi, South Sudan and Ethiopia. The rest are from Liberia, Algeria, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Algeria and Zambia.
ABOUT The African Story Challenge
The African Story Challenge is a new $1m programme of reporting grants to spur in-depth, multimedia storytelling that engages citizens and aims to improve the health and prosperity of Africans.
The two-year, pan-African project challenges journalists to embrace a bold form of journalism that seeks solutions using digital and data-driven techniques. The project will encourage journalists to experiment with new content ideas and ways to engage audiences through mobile technology, social media and other innovative tools.
The project also aims to hold leaders accountable and spur better policies on topics that matter to Africans, such as agricultural growth, good health, quality education and better jobs.
Over two years, the project will award approximately 100 reporting grants and provide mentoring to support the best ideas for stories on development issues. Journalists who produce the best stories published or broadcast in media that reach African audiences will win cash prizes or a major international reporting trip.
