The journalist and president of SOAS pitches the story she thinks should lead the news and discusses her new book ‘An African History of Africa’.

In this episode she’s joined by Tortoise editors Ceri Thomas and Jess Winch to also talk about how we deal with hate speech and the 2,000 Swiss women who took their government to court over its climate policies.

Email: newsmeeting@tortoisemedia.com

Guests:

• Zeinab Badawi, journalist and author of An African History of Africa
• Jess Winch, news editor at Tortoise
• Ceri Thomas, editor at Tortoise

Host: Giles Whittell, deputy editor at Tortoise

Producers: Rebecca Moore and Casey Magloire

Executive producer: Lewis Vickers

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