Radio Taboo

Radio Taboo is a development project and documentary film about Issa Nyaphaga, a political journalist in exile returning to his small village in West Africa to build a community radio station to educate his community about subjects that are often too taboo to talk about. In the 1990s Issa was a journalist in Cameroon, where he was jailed and tortured for his political cartoons”. Years later he returned to his village N’Ditam in central Cameroon to build a community radio station to educate villagers about public health, environmental issues, women’s issues and rights of gay and HIV infected people.  His village has no running water, no electricity, no schools or hospitals and no public news service. The film follows his struggle to raise funds, get the materials, gather manpower, build the station, train citizen journalists and make the station work for the betterment of his community.

This film is currently in Post Production. The radio station has been built and has been up and running since 2017.