The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kojo Nnamdi

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kojo Nnamdi

1/30/2014

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2014.014

Broadcast journalist Kojo Nnamdi (1945 - ) has worked as a radio and television show host in the Washington, D.C. area for over forty years. His shows have included WHUT-TV’s “Evening Exchange,” and WAMU-FM’s “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” and “The Politics Hour." Nnamdi was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 1/30/2014, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 57m 57s

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Broadcast journalist Kojo Nnamdi was born as Rex Orville Montague Paul on January 8, 1945 in Guyana. He emigrated first to Montreal, Canada in 1967 to attend McGill University, and then to the United States in 1968.Nnamdi first lived in Brooklyn, New York, where he worked on Wall Street and joined the Black Panther Party. He then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1969, and became part of a new organization called The Center For Black Education, developed in large measure by former members of the Stud...