Mariama Sesay
Lead Producer, BBC Media Action Sierra Leone, Mariama is Lead Producer for Tawa Fo Welbodi, a radio show about malaria broadcast across Sierra Leone.
Blog posts in total 4
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Saving for a brighter future - aged 13 and against the odds
We met Aminata Tholley in Freetown, Sierra Leone during the production of our radio programme Wae Gyal Pikin Tinap (When a Girl Child Stands). She told us how she saved half of the money she earned by begging on the streets, and used the other half to start a business when she was just 13 years-old.
Disability is not ‘inability’: girls making waves in Sierra Leone
Senior producer Mariama Sesay describes meeting an inspirational girl determined to challenge disability discrimination in Sierra Leone. Madi Sefoi joined an episode of our radio show as a co-host to discuss disability not holding girls back, read her story here.
Radio show tackles malaria myths in Sierra Leone
As our malaria myth-busting radio show, Tawa Fo Welbodi, enters its second series, hear from Mariama Sesay, the show's Lead Producer, about her personal reflections on the disease and what audiences have learnt and done as a result of tuning in.
What’s it like to be a teenage mother in Sierra Leone?
Fanta, who went back to school just three months after giving birth aged 16 is the first person we featured in our new series about young people in the country.
