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 Sociey. 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.