Zeinab Badawi
✓ Source-basedfallingSudanese-British broadcaster (born 1959)
Zeinab Mohammed-Khair Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist, educator, civic activist, and writer. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News, and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News.
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Achebe gave a voice to Africans for generations to come, including my own.
Africa Writes (Royal African Society website, c. June 2020)
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)
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).
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Zeinab Mohammed-Khair Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist, educator, civic activist, and writer. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News, and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News. Badawi was the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News, and Reporters, a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC. In 2021, Badawi was appointed as president of SOAS University of London. Badawi serves on several civic boards and published her first book, An African History of Africa, in 2024.
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