NTV's Swahili prime-time news anchor Fridah Mwaka has opened up about her passion for Kiswahili. This comes after she won the Outstanding Female News Anchor of the Year award during the International Ladies in Media Award 2022. The event was held in Ghana in 2022. The soft-spoken Swahili guru shared that her passion for the language started when she was a little girl. The young Fridah loved watching television shows in the Swahili language. In an exclusive interview with
Nairobi News, Fridah notes that former State House Spokesperson Kanze Dena was one of her role models. "Kiswahili would flow easily in me and even in school, I excelled in it. When I finished my high school education, I started acting in the Swahili set books. The likes of
Utengano," she says. Further, Fridah notes that her passion for the language was propelled by where she was brought up up. "In all my childhood days, my parents and I lived in Kilifi county. So the environment was an enabling factor."
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