About
African Education Monitor Magazine
The African Education
Monitor Magazine is a monthly, magazine published in
Lagos Nigeria that has
as mandate; reportage of issues bordering on education across the continent of
Africa.
It is an
incontrovertible fact today that education as an important sector has not been
receiving its fair share of media attention in news and editorials of conventional
media platforms in Africa. And this ought not to be the case if one takes into
consideration the indispensability of education as having direct and undeniable
bearing on the overall development and transformation of any society. So
bearing in mind the agenda setting capacity of the media to influence and
inform among others, policy formulations at institutional levels, African
Education Monitor Magazine was born to fill in the lacunae on the scooping and
dissemination of news strictly on education on the continent of Africa.
African
Education Monitor serves as a conveyor belt of incisive information on issues
that are education related. In this regard, the magazine focuses on general
education news, special interviews with major players in the education sector
like policy makers and heads of institutions.
Besides
doing special spotlights on institutions of learning, research institutes,
intervention agencies, education summits and the likes, the magazine also
organizes seminars, workshops and public lectures at intervals on topical
issues on education.
As
a communication platform for disseminating news and ideas of remarkable
intellectual contents, African Education Monitor primarily aims at being at
home in the circles of academics in institutions of learning, policy makers,
think tank groups and general discerning readers who crave updates on trends in
education in various African countries.
The
magazine is distributed by subscription and through other outlets like
newsstands, placement in public libraries, libraries of higher institutions of
learning and complimentary copies given out to heads of agencies, policy formulators
and other relevant bodies in the education sector.
It
presently circulates in Nigeria and some African countries.
About the African
Education Monitor’s Awards
As
an inevitable corollary of creating a template of excellence in adding value to
issues bordering on education, the African Education Monitor Awards platform
was also born.
The
primary focus of the Awards platform is to recognize and reward excellence and
of course to pay homage to the resilience and creative capacity of individuals
who have upped the ante in the area of education.
In
this age when genuine reformers with sincerity of purpose, uncommon vision,
focus and olympian fortitude are bred less frequently, it becomes a desideratum
to identify and celebrate those that are making their visible marks in the task
of societal transformation even if only to create a sense of desire for others
to emulate their noble deeds.
Since
education is the fulcrum and lifebelt of any society and the pulley that drives
civilization, African Education Monitor’s Awards platform was instituted to at
intervals honour outstanding individuals and institutions who have made immense
contributions to the development of education in Africa so that the continent
can hop-scotch from under development to a knowledge-driven and developed one.
The
African Education Monitor Awards platform is not a frivolous one judging by the
standards and pedigree that African Education Monitor Magazine seeks to be
premised. It is a noble platform with a value-based sense of factor.
