{"id":36967,"date":"2019-04-19T07:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36967"},"modified":"2019-04-19T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:23:12","slug":"radio-taboo-an-amazing-community-radio-station-in-rural-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/radio-taboo-an-amazing-community-radio-station-in-rural-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Taboo: An amazing community radio station in rural Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36969\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RadioTaboo-ETOW2-e1555671077332.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36969\" class=\"wp-image-36969 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RadioTaboo-ETOW2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio Taboo (Source: Issa Nyaphaga)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Alan Roe, who shares <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rfi.fr\/africa\/20190319-radio-taboo-cameroon-uses-airwaves-fight-isolation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Radio France International article and interview<\/a> with Issa Nyaphaga, the <em>tour de force<\/em> behind<strong> Radio Taboo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the interview:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/85Xmd4xUihw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/85Xmd4xUihw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for sharing this, Alan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36968\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ETOW-radios.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36968\" class=\"wp-image-36968 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ETOW-radios.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ETOW-radios.jpg 240w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ETOW-radios-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of our initial radios received by Radio Taboo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Readers: what Alan didn&#8217;t know is that I&#8217;ve been working with Issa via <a href=\"http:\/\/etow.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ears To Our World<\/a> and can confirm that this station is having a most positive impact on its community!<\/p>\n<p>I was originally introduced to Issa via one of ETOW&#8217;s long-time supporters and friends a couple years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At ETOW, we wanted to help establish more Radio Taboo listener groups, so we sent an initial batch of radios to be used in this very rural and remote part of Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The radio we sent to Radio Taboo is the <strong>Tecsun GR-88<\/strong> (or &#8220;Green-88&#8221;). This radio used to be branded by Grundig as the <strong>FR200<\/strong>, but Grundig no longer markets this model so we purchase them from Tecsun.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in a recent email to friends and supporters of Radio Taboo, Issa shared the following photo and noted:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This man next to me is one of the first beneficiaries of the crank radios donated by Thomas Witherspoon, the founder of &#8220;Ears To Our World&#8221; a U.S. non-profit. They donated a dozen of these radios to some Radio Taboo\u2019s listers. Radios made it in the Cameroon this week.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RadioTaboo-ETOW.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36970\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RadioTaboo-ETOW-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I should mention it&#8217;s a logistical challenge to get radios to this part of the world (especially in the summer when the roads are nearly impassable due to rains) but we&#8217;re looking into a service that might be able to help in the future with a much larger donation of radios.<\/p>\n<p>Alan, thanks again for sharing this story and giving me an opportunity to tell about our first-hand experience working with Radio Taboo!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.rfi.fr\/africa\/20190319-radio-taboo-cameroon-uses-airwaves-fight-isolation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out the full article about Radio Taboo at Radio France International by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitip.org\/radio-taboo-community-radio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to check out the Radio Taboo website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares this Radio France International article and interview with Issa Nyaphaga, the tour de force behind Radio Taboo. Here&#8217;s a video of the interview: Click here to view on YouTube. Thank you so much for sharing this, Alan. Readers: what Alan didn&#8217;t know is that I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3],"tags":[4704,3854,178,218,219,7731,497,7730,453,102],"class_list":["post-36967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","tag-alan-roe","tag-community-radio","tag-ears-to-our-world","tag-etow","tag-humanitarian-radio","tag-issa-nyaphaga","tag-radio-france-international","tag-radio-taboo","tag-rfi","tag-why-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9Cf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47775,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/today-is-world-radio-day-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":36967,"position":0},"title":"Today is World Radio Day 2021","author":"Thomas","date":"February 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is UNESCO World Radio Day and this year the theme highlights diversity on the airwaves. 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