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Zeinab Badawi

Zeinab Badawi
Born in Sudan, Zeinab Badawi is President of the University of London’s SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) and an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and filmmaker. She was previously Chair of the Royal African Society. Badawi is a recipient of the President’s Medal of the British Academy; an honorary fellow of her alma mater, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford; a Patron of the United Nations Association UK; and is on the boards of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, the International Crisis Group, and Afrobarometer. An African History of Africa is her first book.


Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

Zeinab Badawi Explores the African Origins of Humanity's Earliest Ancestors
January 15, 2025  By Zeinab Badawi
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