Esther Armah

Esther Armah

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Esther Armah is an award nominated international journalist who has worked in the United Kingdom, the United States and Africa. Her work spans print, radio and television. She is a published author, public speaker, playwright and director of a creative media company.

As a print journalist she has written for ‘The Guardian’ newspaper in London; Pride a UK magazine for women of color, ‘Essence’ magazine in New York; ‘The African Journal in Washington DC, ‘The New Ghanaian’ in Washington DC and New York and ‘West Africa’ magazine in Africa and Europe. As a radio journalist she has made award winning documentaries for BBC in the UK, and hosted ‘Up All Night’, ‘Everywoman’, ‘Global Perspective’ and ‘Pick of the World’. In New York, she co-hosts the breakfast show ‘Wake Up Call’ on WBAI on Thursday mornings, ‘Off The Page’ a radio show about books also on WBAI. She has co-hosted ‘What’s At Stake?’ on WPFW in Washington DC. In television she has worked both in front of and behind the camera for BBC television and has been a panelist on Sky Television’s ‘The Richard Littlejohn Show’. As a reporter her work has taken her from Peckham in South London to Pretoria in South Africa including Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Lesotho, Cape Town, Washington DC, Philadelphia, London.

As a public speaker she has spoken widely on media, creative and personal leadership, ambition and race within the media in the UK. She is a director of Centric Productions, a creative media company that focuses on creative leadership, creative marketing in literature, media and rebranding Africa. Her website is www.centricproductions.co.uk. Her first book CAN I BE ME? has been adapted into a one woman show, and she is currently writing her second book. She has appeared at Harlem Book Fair. She now lives in New York.

Can I Be Me?
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ISBN: 0595382738
Format: Paperback
Pub Date: June 2006
Publisher: iUniverse

Esther Armah is a black British journalist turned junkie. Her fix is approval and applause; she works in mainstream media, but she’s hungry for a place of belonging, a space to call home, a community and a nation she can belong to. Witness to her mother getting shot, part of the legacy of secrets in her family, driven and ambitious she has become a beggar in mainstream media, she wants out but first she has to tell the truth of the assignments she went on and who she became on each journey. Who does she have to be to survive in the world of mainstream media? Who is she prepared to become to get the success and approval she craves? And where do her assignments lead her? This powerful, provocative non-fiction memoir reads like a fast paced drama with travel to South Africa, Ghana, Washington DC, Philadelphia, London, relationships, brief encounters with leadership and the one question she has to ask – and answer - Can I Be Me?

Can I Be Me? brutally honest, emotionally revealing, inspirational, thought provoking, powerful and provocative.

Esther Armah is the host Off The Page

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