Should there be foreign correspondents? Decolonise How?

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Apr 14, 202639:39News & Politics

In this episode of Decolonise How? , host Patrick Gathara sits down with journalist Jane Ferguson to debate what role foreign correspondents should have in telling stories from crises, and why she now describes herself a...

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