Zain Verjee: The rise and rise of Kenya’s queen of silver screen at CNN

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It is now 10 years since she left the KTN and joined CNN, one of the world’s most respected media houses. She was 26 years old then, and even though anchoring was not new to her, having presented the prime-time news on KTN for sometime, she could not fight the apprehension that assailed her when she sat on the hot seat thousands of miles away from home for the first time.

It was not lost on her that this time round she would be addressing a much wider audience. “It was a really scary experience which took sometime to get used to. I cannot count the number of times I called home crying because I felt lost and did not know what I was doing,” she recalls.

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