The NAN boss said African countries had for too long relied on external media “hegemons” to tell their stories. “That is gradually changing with the reawakening of African media and platforms like FAAPA, where Africans tell African stories from African perspectives,” he said. Ali highlighted NAN’s growing partnerships with other African and global news agencies, singling out its collaboration with Morocco’s national news agency as a milestone. Sometimes, we rely on foreign media to tell stories from neighbouring African countries because of this gap,” he said. He concluded that stronger collaboration among African press agencies remained key to unlocking the continent’s narrative power.