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More powerful than a weapon
Posted: July 15, 2010 | Tags: ICIJ, Le Messager, pius njawe
On Monday, the world and the profession of journalism lost a great man, one of the most extraordinary individuals I have ever had the honor and pleasure to know. Pius Njawe, a 53-year-old African journalist arrested more than 100 times for writing about corruption and other abuses of power in his native Cameroon, died in an automobile accident near Norfolk, Virginia. He was here in the Washington area attending a democracy forum and visiting relatives.
Pius was considered one of the "most defiant independent editors and publishers in Western Africa, a region known for spawning autocratic regimes that often enforce ...