Throughout my career as a journalist covering this Continent I have the most vivid memories of fallen colleagues who gave their life to tell the African story -- journalists I had the privilege of working very closely with and who I am proud to call my friends. Hos Maina, Anthony Macharia and Dan Eldon who were brutally killed in Mogadishu in 1993, John Maathai who died while working with my father in Ethiopia in 1991, and Brian Tetley who perished along with with my father onboard the hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the Comoros in 1996. All these deaths touched me personally, but the tragedy continues as many brave African journalists continue to be killed, tortured and imprisoned all over the Continent year after year.
