Uduak Amimo

Uduak Amimo is a Kenyan journalist. She hosts the current affairs talk show, Cheche, on Citizen TV, which is part of the Royal Media Services stable. Before returning to Kenya and taking up her current position, Amimo worked for several international media organisations, including the BBC World Service,[1] Voice of America and Reuters. She was one of the moderators of Kenya's first presidential debates, held during the 2013 general election.[2]

Amimo serves as a trustee on the board of Uraia, a national civic education organisation. She is a 2015 Tutu Fellow and a 2014 GSIH Fellow.[3]

Education

Amimo begun her primary education at Lavington Primary School in Nairobi before spending three years at Roosevelt Elementary School in Iowa in the United States. She then returned to St George’s Primary school in Nairobi before moving to the Navy Primary and Secondary schools in Nigeria. She completed her secondary education in Kenya at the Bunyore Girls High School, where she was a prefect.[1]

Amimo holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in International Relations from the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya. She was part of the team that launched the university's newspaper and soon became its editor.

She also holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and Public Policy from the American University in Washington, D.C., which she received after winning a scholarship and teaching assistantship.[1]

Career

Amimo says she became a journalist to address what she felt was the negative portrayal of Africa, particularly in the international media.[4]Her first job was as an Assistant Producer with Reuters Television in Kenya, where she had interned in her senior year of university. She left Reuters to pursue her MA. After completing her studies, she joined the Voice of America in Washington as a radio and television host, reporter and producer in the English to Africa service.

BBC

She joined the BBC in 2002, as a producer and presenter with the English-language BBC African news and current affairs programmes, Network Africa and Focus on Africa[5] Amimo presented, produced and edited radio programmes for the African News and Current Affairs section of the BBC World Service before becoming a Senior Producer and Presenter of the BBC African flagship programme, Focus on Africa.[1] In 2006, Amimo was appointed Senior Editorial Adviser, supporting the Director of the BBC World Service, Nigel Chapman.[5] She moved to Ethiopia in 2009 to become the BBC correspondent in Addis Ababa, covering both the country and the African Union.[6] She has reported from several other African countries.

She left the BBC and returned to Kenya in 2011. She took up her current position at Royal Media Services in 2012.

Personal life

Amimo is a Christian. Her parents are from Kenya and Nigeria.Uduak her Nigerian name means God's will in her father's language. Her second name Amimo is a Kenyan name. She is named after her great-grandmother on her mother's side of the family from western Kenya. She is a first-born.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Uduak Amimo – Journalist and Radio Presenter". ReConnect Africa. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "State House rivals skirt around wages". Capital News. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  3. ↑ "Auto Draft | AFLI". alinstitute.org. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  4. ↑ "Uduak Amimo: Poised, professional, sabre-sharp and severe". www.nation.co.ke. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  5. 1 2 "BBC World Service appoints Kenyan, Uduak Amimo, as its Senior Editorial Adviser". Radio Netherlands Worldwide Skip to Content ↓. 5 October 2006. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Profile: Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi". BBC. 2010-05-17. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  7. ↑ "Burgeoning identity". BBC. 4 January 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2013.


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