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From teaching to appearing on TV: The story of Lydia Manyasi

Lydia Manyasi during the peak of her career at KTN

From the early days of television (and radio) up to the present, female broadcasters have fought for a place in Kenyan broadcasting.

In the early 1990’s journalism in Kenya was a man’s domain and it is women like Lydia Manyasi who changed all of that by paving the way for female broadcast journalists in the country.

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