Apollonia Mathia (died 18 March 2011) was a South Sudanese journalist and social activist. Mathia was one of the founders of the Association for Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS) as well as Union of Journalists of Southern Sudan (UJOSS).
Background and education
Mathia was born in the 1950s.
She spent her childhood in northern
Uganda before relocating to
Juba.
Career
Before she joined the Ministry of Finance as a secretary in 1978, Mathia worked as an Information Manager at the Catholic Church.
She later quit to join the
Juba Post where she was the only female editor and
Managing Editor.
She left the Juba Post in 2008 and joined the BBC Monitoring Service as their correspondent in South Sudan.
Mathia worked at a number of jobs and helped found the Union of Journalists of Southern Sudan (UJOSS). She also worked as a consultant at South Sudan’s World Bank Micro-finance investment department.
At the time of her death in
2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
, Mathia was Executive Director of the Association for Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS) which she had helped co-found in 2008 alongside Veronica Lucy Gordon and others
Death
On 18 March 2011, Mathia died as a result of an accident when a motorcycle she was on was crushed by a lorry.
See also
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Anna Nimiriano
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Veronica Lucy Gordon
Veronica Lucy Gordon is a South Sudanese journalist, radio broadcaster and rights activist who is the co-founder of the Association of Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS). In 2014, she became the first female executive board member of the Associ ...
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Juba Post
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Mass media in South Sudan
The mass media in South Sudan is underdeveloped compared to many other countries, including fellow East African states like Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Poor transportation infrastructure and entrenched poverty in the country inhibit both the circ ...
References
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Living people
South Sudanese women journalists
South Sudanese journalists
South Sudanese activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women newspaper editors
Road incident deaths in South Sudan
BBC people