Larry Madowo

Larry Madowo (born 14 July 1987) is a journalist, a CNN international correspondent and host of the African Voices Changemakers and Playmakers series. He was previously a North America correspondent for the BBC, anchored breaking news and presented BBC World News America from Washington, DC. He was a 2019–20 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in New York and the BBC Africa Business Editor until 2019. He is a reporter, broadcaster, writer and news anchor whose range includes business, technology, current affairs, politics and popular culture. His work has been featured in the BBC, CNN International, the Washington Post, and The Guardian.

Quotes

• I needed people willing to show their faces, share their experiences, and provide evidence... I wanted to show the reality through people who had actually been there." – Discussing the importance of human-driven, verifiable storytelling.
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• Africans are not just victims. We have a role in these stories and a perspective on them.
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• But the more I've gone out to the rural areas, the more I realize I actually don't understand this country at all.
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