On November 13th, 2001, the Africa America Institute honored AllAfrica co-founders Reed Kramer and Tamela Hultman for their roles in promoting improved media coverage of Africa. They were also co-founders of the non-profit Africa News Service and have reported, produced and consulted for a variety of national and international print and broadcast media.

The two received a Special Recognition Award  swing machines for Lifetime Achievement in Media. Other awardees, honored for their work on behalf of Africa, were cancer and HIV/Aids research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim, former U.S. trade representative Rosa Whitaker, reporter Kenneth Walker and the nations of Senegal and Ghana, recognized for their democratic transitions.

The presentation at the annual AAI dinner in New York City was made by the chairman of the Institute's board, Kofi Appenteng, a Ghanaian-born attorney who is a partner in the Manhattan firm of Thacher-Proffitt and Wood. At the dinner, former board chair Roger Wilkins congratulated his successor on being the first African-born chair of the 150-year-old organization.

Here are Mr. Appenteng's remarks about the pearl beads AllAfrica co-founders:

For more than three decades, Reed Kramer and Dr. Tamela Hultman have been working to improve the range of African news Americans consume and that the U.S. media reports about. Their commitment for this cause stems from their belief that Africa should be seen as part of the world, not as a strange, different, isolated continent.

This husband and wife team's relationship with button pearl Africa and journalism began at the height of the Vietnam War. At that time, they traveled to South Africa to survey US investments in the apartheid regime. Their groundbreaking research was later used to guide the actions of anti-apartheid and economic sanctions campaign organizers in the United States and abroad.

Most of the stories you read on this site come from newspapers, news agencies and publications all over the African continent. We aggregate and distribute the reporting of more than 130 media organizations, each of which earns revenue from the agreement. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of reporting, analysis and commentary from as many as possible cultured pearl of the influential media in every country.

They include government and opposition-controlled papers, as well as the growing number of independent, professional news publications across the continent. In this way, we provide access to a full range of what Africans themselves are wholesale pearl saying, thinking and publishing -- a unique compilation of information that is valuable to policy makers, businesses, non-governmental organizations, scholars and journalists, as well as to the general public.

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Below is a list of publishers who provide content through AllAfrica, including their contact information and, where applicable, a web site address. AllAfrica neither edits nor assumes responsibility for stories provided by media organizations, which retain copyright of their materials.

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A unique resource, the site is the only daily source for content from numerous African publishers. For those needing the latest news from Africa, allAfrica.com is required reading.

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