NIGERIAN journalist Declan Okpalaeke was named the CNN African Journalist of the Year at an award ceremony at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre on Thursday night. Okpalaeke won the prize for an article on male infertility and a traditional alternative to Viagra, known as Ogbolo. Okpalaeke, a reporter for Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper, said it is vital that Africa develops the capacity to report the continent’s news from an African perspective. Themba Hadebe, a photographer for Johannesburg daily newspaper The Star received the Mohamed Amin prize for photography for his picture of a confrontation with a mugger in an alley. Hadebe trained with the Mail & Guardian. newspaper.