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==Professional career== | ==Professional career== | ||
Maureen began her broadcasting career at the age of 18 as a continuity presenter at ZNBC in 1986 -- all the while begging her bosses to let her do the news which was the preserve of 'the veterans' at the station. Then one day the news presenter did not show up on time and she asked them to let her read the news which they reluctantly allowed her to. The news was watched by virtually everyone in the country including President [[Kenneth Kaunda]]. When she concluded the take, her director was ecstatic with her performance. Having noticed her evident talent, the station invested in Maureen by sending her for formal training. | Maureen began her broadcasting career at the age of 18 as a continuity presenter at ZNBC in 1986 -- all the while begging her bosses to let her do the news which was the preserve of 'the veterans' at the station. Then one day the news presenter did not show up on time and she asked them to let her read the news which they reluctantly allowed her to. The news was watched by virtually everyone in the country including President [[Kenneth Kaunda]]. When she concluded the take, her director was ecstatic with her performance. Having noticed her evident talent, the station invested in Maureen by sending her for formal training. | ||
After resigning from ZNBC, Maureen later to joined BOP (Bophuthatswana) television as an executive producer and presenter where she became their lead TV anchor of the flagship programme, Panorama, for which she won a Marang award. BOP TV was one of the first commercial television stations in Africa in 1984. Bophuthatswana was a self-governing homeland within South Africa during the apartheid era. | |||
“It’s also worth mentioning that moving to BOP TV was quite timely. I would have resigned from ZNBC, anyway, due to the rampant sexual harassment I was going through from some of my bosses,” she reveals. | |||
After studying for her master’s degree, she worked for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as chief international correspondent and TV news anchor. | |||
It was through her elaborate work as a roving reporter, covering civil war and conflicts, elections, humanitarian and developmental issues that Maureen was head-hunted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2001 to work as their Africa specialist and presenter of the flagship programme, Focus on Africa. | |||
Yes, in case you are marvelling, BBC is a past and present phenomenon. It is the first and largest national broadcasting network in the world headquartered in London. | |||
Six years later, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) appointed Maureen as regional communications adviser for east and southern Africa. | |||
And after nearly four years at the UNDP, Maureen was again head-hunted in 2012, by the African Union’s NEPAD agency as head of communications. | |||
In December 2014, she came back home to Zambia, where she is working for the World Bank as a senior communications expert. | |||
==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
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Maureen confesses that she has a few profound regrets which she will reveal in a book about her life that she hopes to pen at the appropriate moment. | Maureen confesses that she has a few profound regrets which she will reveal in a book about her life that she hopes to pen at the appropriate moment. | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
