Episode 17: Africa 2019 Year in Review

~ Edwin Okong'o

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For the first Africa Straight Talk episode of 2020, Kwesi Wilson, a San Francisco Bay Area-based Ghanaian-born political commentator and professor of communication, joins us to review and analyze some of the most striking African stories of 2019.

Published by Edwin Okong'o

Edwin Okong’o is not your typical, stereotypical African. He is a storyteller by any medium necessary™. Okong'o is an award-winning journalist, humorist, satirist and memoirist. He received his master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied radio, newspaper, magazine, and online multimedia storytelling and editing. Okong’o’s journalistic work, provocative commentaries, and stand-up comedy performances have appeared in numerous media across the world. He is the winner of several honors, including a Webby Award for his short documentary, "Kenya: Sweet Home, Obama", which he made for the PBS program, Frontline.