Nila Yasmin has won the inaugural APO Group African Women in Media Award, which recognizes, celebrates and empowers African women journalists who support female entrepreneurship in Africa.
The leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service in Africa and the Middle East, announced Ugandan journalist Nila Yasmin as the winner at the 5th Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) hosted at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on 29-30 October 2019.
The jury voted Nila Yasmin as the winner for her article “Aweko Faith Is Turning Uganda’s Waste Into Wealth”, that was published on GLIM, a Ugandan online magazine that empowers women. She beat 2 other journalists from Nigeria and Kenya to win the award that comes with a 2,500 USD cash prize.
Nila Yasmin is a journalist who uses media and art to empower women. She worked as a news anchor for 7 years, anchoring English news on some of the most reputable radio stations in Uganda like Record Radio and HOT100. She retired from radio in December 2018, to create her own media company with co-founder Consolate Namyalo . The company dubbed ,GLIM, is a lifestyle women empowerment brand that celebrates and empowers women. She is also working with Media 256, a media production company in Uganda contracted by CNN to produce CNN African Voices and CNN Inside Africa.
Lionel Reina, CEO of APO Group said, “We would like to congratulate Nila Yasmin on winning the 2019 APO Group African Women in Media Award. The APO Group African Women in Media Award is part of our commitment to supporting the development of journalism on the continent. We were delighted to present this award at AWIEF in Cape Town as we celebrated women in journalism and entrepreneurship.”
