VOICES Contemporary Lectures 2008-09: Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Africa on the Edge

VOICES Contemporary Lectures
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Africa on the Edge

Award-winning journalist with more than 40 years in the industry, Charlayne Hunter-Gault recently left her post as CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, which she had held since 1999, to pursue independent projects. Before joining CNN, she worked from Johannesburg as the chief correspondent in Africa for NPR from 1997 to 1999. Hunter-Gault was the chief national correspondent for The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS from 1983 to 1997.

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