About
Zeinab Badawi is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, filmmaker and President of SOAS London University and is an honorary fellow of her alma mater St Hilda's College Oxford University. Born in Sudan, she presented Channel 4 News for over a decade and on the BBC she has interviewed some of the world's most notable personalities and politicians on World News Today, HARDtalk and Global Questions. She is a Patron of the United Nations Association UK, a board member of the Arts, Humanities and Research Council, of MINDS, the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, the International Crisis Group and of Afrobarometer. She was previously Chair of the Royal African Society. An African History of Africa is her first book.
