Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo Twitter profile

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What you don’t see see on TV

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Queen Elizabeth was not universally loved in Africa. My CNN live report on colonialism, fairytales and the Africans who refuse to mourn her death

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I'm obsessed with this video of South Korean boy band BTS performing at #UNGA in New York. Perfect way to close out our CNN show today 🕺

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An African student who was imprisoned in Moscow has been killed during battle in Ukraine fighting for Russia. The Zambian foreign ministry says it has urgent questions for Moscow about how the 23yo nuclear engineering student ended up fighting for Russia.

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Some people don’t like it when Africans tell their own (his)stories. What in the Berlin Conference is this? 🚮

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In-depth reporting of #NigeriaFloods . Literally. Tomorrow on CNN

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New York City reunion with my TV ex-wife @VickyRubadiri 🙌🏾

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What you don’t see on TV 😉

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BREAKING: William Ruto elected 5th president of Kenya with 50.49% of the vote, the country’s electoral commission announces. The deputy president won in his 1st run, beating former prime minister Raila Odinga who ran for the 5th time. Odinga got 48.5% of the vote

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How it started: How it’s going:

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My in-person graduation from @Columbia was delayed by 2 years but it was still special. I came back to New York to confirm that my master’s in Business & Economics Journalism was real. It is & they haven’t changed their minds

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3 years

Some personal news: I’m heading to CNN to cover a tiny continent with just 55 countries

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May “the God of Larry Madowo” bless you in 2024

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2 years

Never argue with strangers on the internet

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For everyone from a small village like me who thought some dreams are too big for you, here is your answer

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“I’ve seen you on TV,” @idriselba told me. “So have I,” I replied. This is why you can’t take me anywhere

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Ran into a Kenyan car in Portugal! Kim Musau @AlphaLandRover has been on the road for 6 months. He left Nairobi and drove down to Namibia, then along the coastline to Morocco, ferry to Spain and now he’s here. Are you not jealous?

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President William Ruto said he + other African leaders would not be summoned by 1 country. The African Union would represent them going forward. He's standing just steps away from both the AU chair & the AU Commission chair in Italy while other East African presidents skipped

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African leaders in Rome for Italy-Africa Summit. How much time & money do they spend going to these conferences outside the continent? Russia-Africa US-Africa China-Africa France-Africa Saudi-Africa Turkey-Africa India-Africa Everyone has a plan for Africa except Africa?

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🥁🥁🥁 I’m anchoring BBC World News America for the first time today. It’s a busy show for a busy world. Watch LIVE at 5pm ET on @PBS across America + @BBCWorld globally at 10pm GMT (1am EAT, 11p CET)

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UPDATE: Twitter finally agreed to negotiate with the laid-off Africa team AFTER this story aired, their lawyer confirms. - They weren’t offered severance until CNN reported it - They weren’t allowed to negotiate their separation terms until CNN reported it

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EXCLUSIVE: Fired Twitter Africa employees are standing up to Elon Musk, have hired a lawyer & are demanding what they're owed. The Ghana team was only offered 'vague' severance pay after CNN reported on their plight. They rejected it More:

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"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent" - Isaac Asimov

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EXCLUSIVE: CNN has spoken to the widow and mother of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif who was shot dead in Kenya in unclear circumstances. We've also obtained both postmortem reports from autopsies in Kenya & Pakistan. The Kenyan police story has many inconsistencies

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2 years

SCOOP - CNN has obtained the termination notice sent to staff at Twitter's only office in Africa - in Accra 🇬🇭 It was sent to their personal emails but didn't mention any of them by name. Unlike in the US, it doesn't offer next steps or severance

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4 years

Catch my interview with Bill Gates all day today across the BBC, on TV and radio, wherever you are in the world

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What you don’t see on TV

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3 years

New job, who dis?

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When you stop outside your ex’s house

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3 years

It's my last day at the BBC. So many of my dreams came true here. I've been blessed with an incredible journey over the last 3 years through 3 continents. Thank you for everything ❤️

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BREAKING: The African Union becomes a permanent member of the G20, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces in opening remarks. Modi embraced the Chairperson of the AU Azali Assoumani as he invited the president of Comoros to take his seat

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Some personal news: after 3 incredible years with CNN, I’m excited to share that I’ve returned to the BBC in Washington. Thank you for a great ride 🙏🏾

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4 years

I just graduated virtually! ✅ Master’s in Business & Economics Journalism ✅ Knight- @Bagehots Fellowship I almost lost my mind shuttling between @columbiajourn @ColumbiaSIPA @Columbia_Biz & I don’t even have a photo to show for it! Still grateful for this blessing #RoarLions2020

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People in Kisumu keep telling me that they’ve run out of toilet paper. The agonizing wait for the presidential election results seems to have caused mass diarrhoea 😂

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I spent months reporting on Jumia’s first year on the NYSE from Lagos, Berlin, Nairobi & New York for my @ColumbiaJournMA thesis. My 9,000-word piece just won the 2020 Philip Greer Award for Financial Writing. I’m also co-authoring an MBA case study on it at @Columbia_Biz School

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Should I keep cooking?

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Bro, is this you? 🧾

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I don’t think our forefathers and my predecessors were mediocre . I believe they did what they could in the circumstances. When Mzee Jomo Kenyatta commissioned that airport in 1978 he must have looked at what he had made and it was very good. That’s what has served us for those…

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Afro Nation Portugal 🔥

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My job is to cover Africa accurately, not positively

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Na nilikuwa nimewawuon!

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My job is to cover Africa accurately, not positively

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3 years

Wakiniuliza ni nani, nitasema ni wewe Baba 🙏🏾

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"Nigerians are used to managing. If not, we would have all died. Nigerians care for themselves, we're just like infants with no father or mother." Our #NigeriaFloods LIVE report on CNN from Yenagoa in Bayelsa state where residents are angry at the government's response

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I don’t know why I love this so much

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Blackout right now at JKIA, hours after Kenya’s Transport minister toured it and said they had “stabilized the electricity supply”

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CNN EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk's Twitter "ghosted" laid off employees in its only Africa office without severance or benefits. The Ghana-based team have not been paid a cent, unlike former staff in North America & Europe

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My grandmother, the family matriarch, our heartbeat, my comedy partner, the dearly loved Francesca Madowo has joined the ancestors. I am numb. My heart has been ripped from my chest. Light has gone out of my life. Nind gi kwe, min Omollo

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A real zebra crossing. Only in Nairobi 🇰🇪

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The transformation of @Nikita_Kering 2015 2022

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Uganda makes the best Rolex in the world 😋

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My hotel is doing too much

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2 years

I asked William Ruto what's difference between him and Raila Odinga: Ruto: "I have a plan, he doesn't. He's a good old man but..." Raila: "I'm younger than President Biden. Age has nothing to do with it"

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Just pointing out how you've changed because you and I were on the same page in 2014 😂😂😂 Bro, you're the one who is still not getting it. Read James 1:5

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@LarryMadowo You are still justifying your misdemeanors ? 😂😂😂 Bro you never get it. Read 1 Corinthians 13:11-12.

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Out here doing the Lord’s work

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Saw these cops share food with some kids during their lunch break in Nairobi’s Kibera area

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Bro @kipmurkomen , umeona JKIA pale Terminal 1C?

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11 months

First, they impose English on you. Then you pay them to “test” if your English is good enough. Is there a word for that in English?

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4 years

Even if @EliudKipchoge doesn’t win another race ever, he’s still the GREATEST MARATHONER of all time! Nobody, dead or alive, has ever accomplished as much in the sport. Respect to the king 🐐

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2 years

Salt your avocados, beloved. Don’t live like animals

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Ugandan judge Julia Sebutinde voted against all the provisional measures South Africa sought against Israel. She is the first African woman to sit on the ICJ

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With Kenyan president William Ruto after a CNN interview at #AfricaClimateSummit in Nairobi

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May ‘the God of Larry Madowo’ bless you and keep you in 2022 🙏🏾

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You don't have the range to lecture me about journalism

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@LarryMadowo Create time to read the President’s speech. Basic journalism.

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Congrats and welcome to CNN, @VickyRubadiri ! 🥳

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CNN International is pleased to welcome @VickyRubadiri in a new role on its long-running multiplatform series Connecting Africa and as part of the network’s newsgathering operation in Nairobi. Read more:

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A literal zebra crossing

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Who did this? I just want to talk

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Premium gaslighting, deflecting & trivializing the issues: 1. JKIA is 66 - 30yrs older than me 2. You don’t need a pre-election terminal to build canopies for the existing ones 3. I didn’t “suddenly” discover how bad JKIA is, I’ve complained about it for 10 yrs. Receipts thread👇🏾

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CS Kipchumba Murkomen: I saw Larry taking videos at the airport. I was laughing because Larry was with us in the country for the last 50 years when that airport was like that. Suddenly because he lives in ‘majuu’ his eyes are open and realizes that there is no shade when you exit…

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The BBC didn’t allow me, an actual black man, to use the N-word in an article when quoting an African American who used it. But a white person was allowed to say it ON TV because it was ‘editorially justified’

BBC apologises over racial slur used in news report

Director general Tony Hall apologises a day after Radio 1Xtra DJ Sideman quit over use of the slur.

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I leave @ntvkenya as I came: humbled & grateful. The job was one of the great honours of my life. Thanks to everyone who watched, and to Nation for the privilege of the opportunity. I’m proud of my amazing colleagues & everything we accomplished. Farewell, my friends. Stay woke

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🇹🇿 benki, ama 🇰🇪 banki? 🤔

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1 year

Good morning from Nairobi, Africa’s greatest city

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We didn't have a TV when I was growing up. It is surreal that I get to anchor a @BBCWorld newscast watched in every corner of the planet from DC. Don't say dreams don't come true! Longer show:

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"Nothing works in this country! Youth are coming out to vote and we're being disenfranchised in broad daylight." Nigerians are TIRED and they're making their voices heard clearly. Our CNN report on the anger at the electoral commission, and the establishment

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Who will be the 5th president of Kenya? I spoke to top candidates Deputy President William Ruto & former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Airing across the day on CNN

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BREAKING: The military rulers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are withdrawing their countries from ECOWAS with immediate effect, a joint statement says.

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If you know, you know 😉

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I wrote a little thing in London’s City A.M. newspaper today. Do you agree?

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I got the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday in DC and I’m pfeeling pfine. As everyone knows, the vaccine doesn’t work if you don’t take a picture 😂

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5 years

Please point us to any of the US mass shootings where you have published photos of the dead

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5 years

We have heard from some readers upset with our publishing a photo showing victims after a brutal attack in Nairobi. We understand how painful this coverage can be, and we try to be very sensitive in how we handle both words and images in these situations.

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On my first day, I was the most overdressed person at the BBC. So this picture commemorates the first and last time I’ll show up at New Broadcasting House in a full suit & tie

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Acheni kutesa wasee wa delivery!

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This Kisumu heat is so disrespectful for a bald man but I came prepared

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African royals at the #coronation of King Charles III 🧵 🇸🇿 His Majesty King Mswati III and Inkhosikati LaMbikiza of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)

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This picture says a lot about Nairobi 🇰🇪

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Tanzanians call smartphones “vishkwambi” in Kiswahili sanifu. They’re just making up words now

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I'm thrilled to be joining the BBC

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At JKIA and power is back. I go through about 50 international airports a year. This is the only one I’ve seen lose power, and so frequently

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"Slow wifi is worse than no wifi." - Isaac Newton

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Mmesema mimi ndio shida, tunyeshewe tu kwa amani na positivity?

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If your patriotism means staying silent when things go wrong, you're deluded. Delulu is not the solulu

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Presidential drip hits different in Senegal

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2 years

Good evening from Nairobi, Africa’s greatest city

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Chemutai is a Kenyan. We don’t recognize the borders some random white man drew. 🇰🇪 ❤️ 🇺🇬 Are we together?

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BREAKING: Peruth Chemutai earns Uganda first gold medal in #Olympics 2020 after winning the women's 3000m steeplechase final August 4, 2021 #MonitorSport | #MonitorUpdates

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There was a loud explosion as I reported LIVE on CNN at a polling unit in Lagos that didn't vote yesterday. Some voters were here until 10pm last night and have been back from 7am today. Still no sign of @inecnigeria officials

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In 2016, I watched the US election from my house in Nairobi. In 2020, I got a front row seat covering it for the BBC. I decided to have fun with it

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Raise Samia Hassan alisema wataanza kufunza Wakenya Kiswahili, nikamjibu: "Tunaongelesha waTanzania kwa Kiswahili mbaya, wanatujibu na Kizungu mbaya, tunasonga mbele kama injili." 🤣 Niliua nyumba pale Dar na Rais William Ruto akamalizia

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Kenya is now “visa-free” for every human on earth. But you can’t just get on a flight. You have to apply for Electronic Travel Authorization, pay $30 and wait up to 3 days for approval. So, a visa?