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Zeinab Badawi
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Zeinab Badawi (born October 1959) is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (later known as ITV News at 5:30), and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998, before joining BBC News. Zeinab Badawi was a prolific broadcast journalist for the BBC on both BBC Four and BBC World News, and Reporters, a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC. She is a Broadcaster and economist. She has worked on programmes HARDtalk, Global Questions and World Debate among many others
Quotes
There has been a way of seeing Africa in terms of poverty and conflict which has become a kind of shorthand for the continent that still persists today.
"One of Africa's best kept secrets - its history", BBC News (1 July 2017)
Achebe gave a voice to Africans for generations to come, including my own.
Africa Writes (Royal African Society website, c. June 2020)<!- website refers to an event on Friday 3 July -->
On why Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe inspires her.
If situations arise where people feel that they have grievances, such grievances should be dealt with in the appropriate way with full transparency, using all the proper governance structures at hand.
On SOAS when appointed the institution's president Arab News (c. October 2021).
If you are always guided by passion and compassion, you will truly have a life of meaning.
"Inspirational quotes from UAL honourees 2015" University of the Arts London (20 July 2015).
I see my hyphenated identity as an advantage that gives me a first-hand experience of both non-Western and European culture.https://en.unesco.org/courier/january-march-2018/zeinab-badawi-my-hyphenated-identity-advantage
For a long time it was the view that because Africa didn't always write, or have written document for his history that means Africa didn’t document its history. That is not true
On Africa history
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head
on Zimbabwe are interviewed by a Zimbabwean with a better command of the language
External links
Category:1959 births
Category:Living people
Category:Women journalists from Sudan
Category:Women born in the 1950s
Category:Women journalists from the United Kingdom
Category:Immigrants to the United Kingdom