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Geoffrey Nyarota (born c. 1951) is an award-winning Zimbabwean journalist and human rights activist. Born in colonial Southern Rhodesia, he trained as a teacher before beginning his career with a Zimbabwean state-owned newspaper, ''The Herald''. As editor of the state-owned ''Bulawayo Chronicle'' in 1989, he helped to break the "Willowgate" scandal, which resulted in several resignations from the cabinet of President Robert Mugabe. When Nyarota was subsequently removed from his post, he spent several years teaching in exile before returning to open the independent ''Daily News''. Bearing the motto "Telling it like it is", the ''Daily News'' swiftly became Zimbabwe's most popular newspaper. However, the paper also suffered two bombings, allegedly by Zimbabwean security forces. Nyarota was arrested six times and reportedly was the target of a government assassination plot. After being forced from the paper by new management in December 2002, Nyarota left Zimbabwe. In exile in the United States, he began ''The Zimbabwe Times'', an online newspaper. His memoir ''Against the Grain, Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman'' was published in South Africa in 2006. == Early life == Nyarota was born in Southern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) to middle-class black parents in 1951. He later received a university education. He initially trained as a teacher—stating later that "in colonial Rhodesia the only job open to educated Africans was teaching"〔—and was posted at Inyanga in the country's east.〔 When ''The Rhodesia Herald'' newspaper announced that it was recruiting a small number of black trainees in 1978, Nyarota applied and was hired.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoffrey Nyarota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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