Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo has revealed the reason why he left BBC for CNN.
According to Madowo, he took up the new job as CNN’s Nairobi based correspondent so as to return home and get an opportunity to tell more African stories because he got tired of criticizing problematic coverage of the continent.
“I just want to make my people proud. Madowo is my grandfather’s name, and I don’t want to bring shame to the whole family. I’ve come too far to disgrace them now, so I have to keep going,” he added in his interview with Biz Community.
He also said that his past year, spent working for the BBC in America, had been one of the busiest of his career filled with several milestones.
“I was a part of it all from the coronavirus outbreak, to the summer of protests following the death of George Floyd and ending in the 2020 US presidential election. For a kid who grew up in a small village in western Kenya without a TV, I pinched myself a lot that I was here.”
As reported by The Sauce last week, the famed journo quit his former job as BBC’s North America correspondent in Washington DC.
His move to CNN was announced by the company’s vice president of News Gathering and Managing Editor for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Deborah Rayner, in a press release.