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Zeinab Badawi Quotes

born 1959 Sudan

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.

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If you are always guided by passion and compassion, you will truly have a life of meaning.

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.

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.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zeinab Badawi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.