I am a journalist of 20 years, and an academic of seven years, currently based in Zanzibar/Tanzania, completing my PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). I have 15 years in international and national work in media, training, academic lecturing and management. This includes Communications/Management, advising the Rwandan, South African and Ethiopian Governments and lecturing at London, Birkbeck and Birmingham University. I have seventeen years experience as a broadcaster and journalist with BBC radio and tv, and Channel Four. I speak fluent French and Spanish, average Italian, Swahili.