Robin White (African Journalist)

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Robin White was for many years editor of the BBC's programmes Focus on Africa and Network Africa which are broadcast on the BBC African Service. He is well-known for his interviews with politicians, which have included Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Obote, Olusegun Obasanjo, Yoweri Museveni, Sam Nujoma, Kenneth Kaunda, and Thabo Mbeki.

Born in 1944 in Nottingham, White took a placement in Cameroon with VSO after graduating from Cambridge. He joined the BBC in the late 1960s. Apart from his work as a journalist on African affairs, he has worked in educational broadcasting and on the British domestic culture and arts programme, 'Kaleidoscope'. He is also a published playwright, with work broadcast by the BBC ^[1].