RICHARD DOWDEN APPOINTED AS TRUSTEE OF KA TUTANDIKE TRUST UK
Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal African Society joined the Ka Tutandike Board of Trustees recently.
Richard first worked in Africa as a volunteer teacher at a rural school in Uganda in the early 1970s. When he returned to Britain he worked for a peace organisation in Northern Ireland and then became a journalist, joining The Times foreign desk in 1980. Richard reported from the Middle East and Africa, before being appointed Africa Editor at The Independent when it was founded in 1986. During the next nine years he visited almost every country in SubSaharan Africa. In addition to writing extensively about Africa, Richard has made three full length documentaries on Africa for Channel 4 and the BBC and also several shorter films.
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