Britange Ndemo

Elijah Bitange Ndemo (born 4 December 1959 in Kisii County in South Western Kenya) is a global technocrat and professor currently serving as Kenya’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union. Professor Ndemo is also an academic and newspaper columnist with the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation and its sister publication, the Business Daily. He currently serves part-time as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. He teaches and researches entrepreneurship and research methods, with most of his research work being focused on ICT within small and medium enterprises, and their influence on economic development in Kenya. Previously served as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication, from 2005 to 2013 under the former Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki. He was awarded the prestigious presidential Chief of the Burning Spear of Kenya (CBS) for his distinguished services in 2006. Quotes I’m very intentional about the stories I tell and the angles I choose. I try to highlight African agency, that Africans are not just victims that things happen to. We have a role in these stories and a perspective on them. I make sure the voices and experts we speak to are Africans with lived experience. My mission was, and still is, to report Africa accurately, not always positively. Because Africa has been covered so badly by Western media, some Africans expect that if you’re an African reporting in global media, then you will only tell positive stories, which is definitely not possible. We have to represent and reflect the reality on the ground. There will be lots of positive, uplifting stories, but there will also be more challenging ones, and we have to cover the full breadth of that. So with every story, I’m trying to give a more three-dimensional view of the continent, its opportunities, its challenges, its innovation. That’s the job. I’m not a defender of Western media. I’m not here to speak for all of Western media. I’ve only worked for two Western organizations, the BBC and CNN, so I can’t speak for the others. I can only speak to the work I do at CNN. External links Category:Diplomats from Kenya Category:Ambassadors Category:Academics from Kenya Category:Columnists Category:Government ministers of Kenya Category:1959 births Category:Living people