Vicky Ntetema
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Vicky Ntetema | |
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| Born | c. 1958 Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer(s) | BBC, UTSS |
| Known for | Reporting human rights abuses; human rights activism |
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Vicky Ntetema (born c. 1958) is a Tanzanian journalist known for breaking the story about the murder of persons with albinism in Tanzania. Later, she became executive director of Under the Same Sun (UTSS) in Tanzania.
Ntetema was born in Tanzania in 1958. With a government scholarship she studied in the Soviet Union and received her master's degree in journalism in 1985 and also received her MSc in information systems development in 1998 at the London School of Economics in the UK. In 1991, Ntetema joined the BBC as a Swahili an electronic media journalist (radio presenter and producer) in London and in 2006 a senior journalist and bureau chief for the BBC World Service in Tanzania.[1] Ntetema came to notice when in 2008 she broke a story about the murder of persons with albinism in Tanzania.[2] Ntetema later left the BBC to become executive director of Under the Same Sun in Tanzania, a Canadian charity promoting the human rights of persons with albinism. A post she held until her retirement in May 2018.[3]