Zeinab Badawi

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.”
• “Achebe gave a voice to Africans for generations to come, including my own.”
• “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.”
• “If you are always guided by passion and compassion, you will truly have a life of meaning.”
• “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”
• “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head”

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Key dates

Born

October 1959

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

Sudan

Place of birth

Sudan

Occupation

presenter

Employer

BBC

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Field of work

radio broadcasting

Hair colour

black hair

Image

Zeinab Badawi crop UNISDR.jpg

Work location

London

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