Storytelling – Mercy Juma

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Storytelling – Mercy Juma

Storyteller

Mercy kickstarted her journalism career in 2012 working in both print and TV at NTV Kenya, and interviewing a range of renown persons including former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and winning several local and international awards for her print features and TV documentaries. She moved to the BBC in 2017 and is based in the Nairobi office where she focuses on an array of topics that include but are not exclusive to politics, health, environment, gender, peace, terrorism and human security.

“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Vera Nazarian

Mercy first got into journalism through writing.“I feel free, uncaged, unlimited, when I write.” Some of my works include:-

coronainkenya

Corona virus in Kenya : ‘I buried my cousin on Facebook Live’

teenage-mothers

Life is a series of regrets for Kenya’s teenage mothers.

diabetes

Diabetics’ daily struggle with financial, emotional burden

hunger

When will Kenya have enough to feed all its citizens?

urban-disease

‘Disease of the urban’ knocks on the doors of sleepy Turkana’

arbotion

Abortion in the era of birth control