Yegna: What advertising strategy can teach development

Ethiopia-based multimedia brand Yegna was at the centre of a media storm after criticism from UK tabloids, but despite the noise, the band, talk-show, and drama has the ambitious aim of changing the way girls in the East African country think of themselves.

For UK readers, the name Yegna registered briefly in January 2017, when a series of aggressive reports by the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail forced the hand of the first-term secretary of state at the Department for International Development...

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