Internship 2026 · XHUMA Africa
Inside the Internship: Covering a Championship with XHUMA Africa
By Let's Talk Tech · August 2026 · 5 min read
The intern team at XHUMA Africa, Bamenda.
XHUMA Africa handed its Let's Talk Tech interns live media assignments and let them run with them. Two weeks later they had been the primary media team at a technical high school and led coverage of a regional debate championship.
XHUMA Africa is a peace building organization a. The team opened their report with a line worth keeping: practice indeed makes perfect. What they got was not a shadowing exercise. They were trusted with real jobs on real dates, which left no room for anything other than creativity, technical agility and a team that holds together.
What they did at XHUMA
2 weeks
August 2026 placement
2
Major events covered as media team
1
Secondary school campus covered
3
Kinds of event branding produced
4
Core skill areas advanced
Regional
Reach of the debate championship
Primary media team at Lycée Technique de Bamenda
Post-production, back at the edit desk.
Their first major engagement was on site at Lycée Technique de Bamenda, the Government Technical High School. They went in as the primary media team, which meant the event's record was theirs to get right.
They planned camera movements rather than chasing the action, captured the milestone moments, recorded the footage and then handled the post-production edit themselves, so the event came out looking like something worth watching.
Leading coverage of a regional debate championship
Event branding for the debate championship.
On the back of that, the team was handed media coverage for the Northwest Secondary Schools Jamboree Debate Championship. They took both photography and video, documenting the debates themselves and the keynote addresses.
They also designed the official promotional flyers and the large-format stage backdrops and banners used at the tournament, so the visual identity across the physical stage and the digital platforms was one piece of work rather than several.
“Our capabilities in graphic design, videography, camera handling and video editing advanced by leaps and bounds.”
From the team's video report
Design work that had to carry a message
One of the graphics produced during the placement.
Alongside the event work they produced graphics for the organisation's own communication. Stage backdrops and banners are unforgiving: they get printed large, they go up in public, and a mistake cannot be quietly fixed afterwards.
Working to that standard taught them to treat a design as something with a deadline and an audience, not an exercise.
The skill they did not expect to need
The technical gains were the obvious part: graphic design, videography, camera handling and video editing all moved forward quickly. What they singled out as more important was collaborative workflow management, which is to say coordinating under tight deadlines, splitting the roles sensibly and holding the production standard while doing it.
They closed their report thanking XHUMA Africa and Let's Talk Tech for the platform, and called the two weeks a milestone in learning and personal growth. Coming from a team that was handed live assignments on day one, that reads as earned.
Questions about this placement
What is XHUMA Africa?
A Peace organization based in Bamenda, Northwest Region, working on live media production, event coverage and visual branding.
What did the interns actually do?
Acted as the primary media team at Lycée Technique de Bamenda, planning camera movements, recording footage and editing it; led photography and video coverage of the Northwest Secondary Schools Jamboree Debate Championship; and designed the event's promotional flyers, stage backdrops and banners.
How do I join the next Let's Talk Tech cohort?
Get in touch with the Let's Talk Tech team through the contact page. Every cohort ends with a two-week placement inside a local organisation, like this one.
With thanks
Thank you, XHUMA Africa
Our thanks to XHUMA Africa for opening its doors to our trainees and putting them on live assignments from the start, rather than giving them a seat in the corner. Letting interns be the primary media team at a real event, with no second crew to fall back on, is a serious act of trust. We are grateful they made the room.
Let's Talk Tech Internship 2026
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