EXCITEMENT as ex NTV anchor Larry Madowo ditches BBC and joins CNN, to report from Nairobi
CNN Hires Larry Madowo as Nairobi-based Correspondent
Larry Madowo is leaving the BBC to take up a new position with CNN as the network’s Nairobi-based correspondent, it was announced today by Deborah Rayner, Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering and Managing Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa, for CNN International.
Madowo most recently served as the BBC’s North America Correspondent in Washington, D.C., covering major U.S. news stories including the Covid-19 outbreak, the 2020 presidential election and the protests following the death of George Floyd and the trial of Derek Chauvin. He also was a fill-in anchor for the network’s flagship BBC World News America show that airs globally and on PBS stations across the U.S.
Published on: May 13, 2021 10:34 (EAT)
Larry Madowo is leaving the BBC to take up a new position with CNN as the network’s Nairobi-based correspondent.
The announcement was made on Thursday by Deborah Rayner, Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering and Managing Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa, for CNN International.
Madowo most recently served as the BBC’s North America Correspondent in Washington, D.C., covering major U.S. news stories including the Covid-19 outbreak, the 2020 presidential election and the protests following the death of George Floyd and the trial of Derek Chauvin.
He also was a fill-in anchor for the network’s flagship BBC World News America show that airs globally and on PBS stations across the United States.
The funnyman took to social media to share a poster of himself captioned ‘Lang’ata 1’’ on an orange background signifying he was eyeing the seat on an ODM party ticket.
During an interview on NTV on Tuesday, Jalang’o, who in the weekend officially joined Nation Media Group as the host of a new lottery show dubbed Omoka Rahisi urged the youth to register to vote for him.
“Naenda kuwa MP wa Lang’ata, vijana tubadilishe kura tujenge Lang’ata mpya,” he said.
On being asked how serious he was on the matter, he said, “Yes mark this day. I don’t go for things I can’t get.”
Martin Munyao
Oppressive Structures
To gain an understanding of why the Church’s role in political protest is required, we must gain an understanding of the oppressive socio-economic and political structures. Unless we can see the oppressive nature of these structures in Kenya, we will never value the place for social action of the Church. What are these structures and how do they perpetuate injustices against the citizens?
These are political and economic structures in the government of Kenya whose role ideally is to serve the citizens. Unfortunately, what we have sensed in the past from these structures is the ability to wield their power to unleash structural violence against their citizens. Quite often we don’t seem to see this as violence because of our narrow definition of the same. Violence is not necessarily bloody, but this kind is equally messy and deadly. Structural violence refers to social and personal violence arising from unjust, repressive, and oppressive natio
April 29th 2021 at 09:00:00 GMT +0300
Kenyans do not have an accent. We say certain things which have been influenced by our culture and the rotating door of accents we were subjected to by primary school teachers. We say things like “I am almost” and “Let me tell you, Maina”, and the only people who can really understand us are other Kenyans.
In fact, the closest thing we have to an accent is the dialect our champions give interviews in after conquering the world of athletics.
Kenyans, however, have a unique ability to absorb and immediately adopt foreign accents. Seeing as we do not have one of our own, it was only fitting that we shopped for one.