Poiyah Media Founder, Ilke Platt has been named by CommsOfAfrica among its Nzinga50 distinction winners for 2024 which awards 50 outstanding African women in Communications and Media.
CommsOfAfrica announced its Nzinga50 distinction winners for 2024 this week by celebrating Communications Practitioners in Africa. Based in Paris, France Founder Cyrille Djami, applauded all recipients and justified the importance of communications pratitioners in Africa to help shape the positive narrative in its communities.
“We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to all winners on being selected as one of CommsOfAfrica’s Nzinga50 winners, highlighting the 50 outstanding African women in Communications and Media for the year 2023. Your achievement and dedication to this field has been truly remarkable and deserves to be celebrated,” he mentioned.
CommsOfAfrica positions itself as a pan-African provider of specialized information in the Communication, media and content creation sectors. They play the role of a link between the communication industries of the French-speaking and English-speaking areas of the African continent. Their primary commitment lies in providing relevant and reliable information to professionals, students and influential decision-makers, both within the African continent and among the diaspora. Entirely based on the web, their media has the triple objective of: Generate informative content regarding current communications, media and content creation in Africa. Highlight the profiles of African professionals in communication, media and content creation. Edit informative content for communication, media and content creation students.
In addition, CommsOfAfrica includes: “Prospects in COM in Africa”, “Journalist Impressions” and the collection of “CommsOfAfrica Practical Guides” dedicated to the professions of communication, media and content creation in Africa. The #Nzinga50, highlights African women of impact in the communication, media and content creation sectors, which is established based on the achievements of the previous year and is unveiled annually, during the month of March. Their ambition remains to become a media reference in the field of communication and media in Africa, by offering daily comprehensive information on the latest news from players in these sectors.
“Such titles are a symbol of work being recognized with passion in the industry that we serve. Not only an individual prize, but there are many amazing young public relations practitioners that have propelled Poiyah Media to greater heights and this one is for the team. It’s always exciting to see Namibia on the map with other African countries and seeing so much unity and synergy in the work that we do. We have seen that with such platforms, it’s really expanded our service delivery not only in Namibia but also in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe to mention a few,” Platt said.