Hailing from Guinea Bissau, Dede was a presenter on Afrika Connexions in the 90s. There is no doubt that Dede’s contribution to Afrika Connexions was his brilliant choice of music and his deep questioning of the African psyche. Dede’s programs took Afrika Connexions to East Africa especially introducing some of…
Frederic Naboya from Burundi was one of the few Afrika Connexions presenters who had any prior media experience before doing the program. As a journalist Fred compiled the news every Sunday and dropped in to read it at 1 pm sharp. This is the only photo we could find of…
Hindy was one of the founding members of the team who still drops in occasionally to do an Afrika Connexions show. Forever elusive we have not been able to find one photo of him. How do you find Hindy? You don’t, he finds you – and we are still waiting.
Kwame got involved with Afrika Connexions when as a taxi driver listening to the program he decided to drive to the station and meet the guy who was talking about Africans on the radio. It was Paul Thusi on air. Paul never missed an opportunity to get another person involved…
Michael Scott is the original Afrika Connexions presenter. Way back in the day, Michael worked on an anti-apartheid program at community radio station 2SER. The program was run by SASCA – a coalition of South African students who had fled their country following the Soweto uprising. They had 15 minutes…
Often cited as one of the founding fathers of Afrika Connexions, Neville Legg presented Afrika Connexions for more than a decade. Every week, Neville presented the latest news from apartheid South Africa and he was still in the chair when Mandela was released and apartheid was abolished.
Hailing from Soweto, Paul Vulindlela Thusi not only took over the co-ordination of Afrikan Connexions he was also Radio Skid Row’s Station Manager for ten years. Having fled South Africa after the Soweto Uprising, everyone at Radio Skid Row used to joke about how he ran the station like a…
Starting with Michael, Hindi and Neville, each of the Afrika Connexions presenters brought their own region of Africa to the program in politics, news and music. Here we start profiling the long list of people who were presenters of the program. We haven’t found everyone yet! If you were involved…