Peace Hyde up for ultimate prize at Young Upcoming Health Journalist Awards
Each year, Discovery Health bestows awards on a well-deserving health
journalist in each of the categories.
One of these well deserving
journalists will walk away with the main prize, the Discovery Health
Journalist of the Year Award.
Joining the list of elite journalists across Africa, Peace Hyde has
been shortlisted for the category of Young Upcoming Health Journalist
award for her work detailing the horrific practice of Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM) and its effect on the young girls who endure the
vicious act.
The work was published in the prestigious Forbes Woman Africa
magazine and will be one of 3 shortlisted finalists for the category at
the Awards ceremony, which takes place on the 15th of June in South Africa.
The story, The Children Who Become Women Too Soon, depicts the
harrowing tale of young girls who are subjected to the act of FGM in
remote areas in Nigeria. Following the ban on this practice by the
previous Nigerian administration, Peace Hyde explores in her article,
the long term health and psychological effects of some victims of this
act painting a vivid and compelling report on the practice.
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