JOURNALISTIC CONFESSIONS

The author reconstructs the itinerary of his career from the school bench. Forged by the great journalists he worked with in his time (Jean-Jacques Kande Théophile Ayimpan Jean Nzunga Mbadi Stephane Kitutu O''Leontwa Achille Ngoye Pascal Nguya Edi Mavomo Théo Bunzi di Bilongo and Fortunat Muboyayi Mubanga) Bazakana has asserted himself and taken his stripes.Through this book the young Paul-Denis Bazakana distils some advice for today''s young journalists who have graduated from the great schools of journalism: modesty respect for the profession and practicing it according to the rules of the art as in his time.This profession is full of pitfalls but one must know how to overcome them.In 2018 he will publish Tabu Ley Rochereau as I knew him at the Editions universitaires européennes.Cover photo: Nesba (Bazakana archives).