Broadcaster | Event Host | Moderator | Speaker
I host conversations, stages and events where the quality of the exchange matters.
Across broadcast, conferences, festivals and cultural and civic spaces, I work with people and institutions to make complex ideas accessible, hold a room with warmth and authority, and create the conditions for meaningful exchange.
Storytelling as infrastructure, not representation.
My work sits at the intersection of media, culture and public life.
I work across broadcast, live events and public conversation, often in spaces where the subject carries complexity or consequence. My role is to keep a conversation moving, listen closely, ask the question that opens something up, and create the conditions for people to think together.
I see storytelling as part of how societies make sense of themselves. It shapes what enters public memory, whose knowledge carries weight, and what we are able to imagine for the future.
This thinking runs through my work as a broadcaster, host, entrepreneur and builder of media platforms.
In the Room
I work across live events, broadcast and public conversation, taking responsibility for the quality of the exchange as well as the experience of the audience.
That can mean carrying an event from opening to close, moderating a difficult or expansive conversation, interviewing someone whose ideas deserve time, or speaking from my own practice.
Event hosting & compering
I host conferences, festivals, cultural programmes, launches and public events. I work closely with producers and speakers, understand the shape of the programme, and hold the audience through transitions, changes of pace and the unexpected.
Moderation
I moderate panels and public conversations where there is something substantive to get into. Preparation matters to me. So does listening. I want the conversation to develop rather than simply move through a list of questions.
Interviews & broadcast
Interviewing is a central part of my practice. Across radio, television, digital platforms and live stages, I work to create conversations in which people can move beyond rehearsed answers and into something more revealing, useful or human.
Speaking
I speak from lived practice as a media entrepreneur, broadcaster and narrative strategist. My areas of work include storytelling as civic infrastructure, independent media, narrative power, African and diaspora public life, entrepreneurship and healthier public conversation.
Selected conversations
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o · Lemn Sissay · Mutale Nalumango · Monica Musonda · Baroness Natalie Bennett · Honey Thaljieh · Elias Chipimo · Ify Adenuga · Amy Goodman · Desiree Reynolds · Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan · Monica Musonda ·
For speaking, moderation and collaborative work,
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