CFAD Hosts Funmi Iyanda

A Nigerian multi award winning broadcaster, journalist, columnist and blogger, Iyanda is one of the international participants in Pilgrimages: an innovative international writers’ exchange programme which sees 14 African writers being hosted in 14 foreign countries in the context of the World Cup being in South Africa. Pilgrimages is conceived and hosted by Chimurenga magazine in conjunction with the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Writers at Bard College, New York.

Funmi Iyanda is a multi award winning broadcaster, journalist, columnist and blogger. She is the presenter of Talk With Funmi, a multi-segmented variety show set in multiple locations across Nigeria which is currently running on Africa Independent Television (AIT) Mondays 11pm Nigerian time. She produced and hosted Nigeria’s most popular and authoritative talk show NEW DAWN with Funmi, which aired on the national network for over eight years.

Visit Funmi's blog :  http://fiyanda.blogspot.com/