Watch this video. It's a powerful reminder to all those in my fraternity selling their souls for a pocket full of pennies, there is a bloody good reason why you got into this business in the first place. Sure, journalism doesn't pay as much monies as you think you deserve. And sure, it's bloody tough to practice journalism of the kind this man talks of. But as that African proverb goes: It is better to eat a mushroom in freedom than meat in slavery.
And while on all things from Africa, allow me sign off with a line from one of the continent's most incredible son.
