Jami Makan is a journalist with SmartMoney Magazine in New York. Search his article archive here.
In July 2008, I travelled to Kenya to spend eight months at the Daily Nation, the Nation Media Group’s flagship newspaper. Not long before my departure, I had graduated from Columbia University’s journalism programme and received a “Young Professionals in Media” fellowship from Aga Khan Foundation Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency. This meant that my first job out of school would be as a news reporter on the streets of Nairobi, a thrilling — but nonetheless daunting — prospect.
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