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Omar Mohammed

Omar is a reporter for Quartz covering East Africa based in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. He was most recently a Hubert H. Humphrey Fulbright Fellow at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. He has been a Senior Producer for a BBC Swahili Service weekly radio news magazine show, 'Haba na Haba' (Little by Little) and created and hosted a news review show @Mgahawa on East Africa Television. His writing has appeared in The Arizona Republic, Global Voices, The East African, amongst others. Omar studied English and Philosophy at St Andrews University in Scotland. His obsessions include Africa Innovators, the Business of Sport and the Future of African Finance.
Omar is a reporter for Quartz covering East Africa based in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. He was most recently a Hubert H. Humphrey Fulbright Fellow at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. He has been a Senior Producer for a BBC Swahili Service weekly radio news magazine show, 'Haba na Haba' (Little by Little) and created and hosted a news review show @Mgahawa on East Africa Television. His writing has appeared in The Arizona Republic, Global Voices, The East African, amongst others. Omar studied English and Philosophy at St Andrews University in Scotland. His obsessions include Africa Innovators, the Business of Sport and the Future of African Finance.
Tech

Egypt’s Shutdown of Facebook’s 'Free Internet' May Have Nothing to do With Net Neutrality

Facebook’s attempt to provide free, albeit limited, internet access to the world’s unconnected, has proven popular.

  • Omar Mohammed, Quartz
Management

The U.S. May Soon Deem African Lions an Endangered Species

The cat is vulnerable to extinction, with only 20,000 of them left on the continent.

  • Omar Mohammed, Quartz
Management

Obama is the First Basketball President

The game has been his way of showing the public who he is.

  • Omar Mohammed, Quartz
Defense

ISIS: Our New Currency Will Destroy America's Capitalist Financial System

The new currency is made up of coins of gold dinars, silver dirhams and copper fulus.

  • Omar Mohammed, Quartz
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