Danai Nesta Kupemba is a reporter for Rest of World covering artificial intelligence in Africa. Prior to Tarbell she interned at CNN for the Emmy award-winning show Amanpour and then worked at Financial Times as an editorial intern. She then went onto work at BBC covering conflict, femicide, youth culture and society in Africa. For her extensive work covering the continent she was honoured with the Press 30 under 30 award in 2025 – one of the UK’s highest recognitions for young journalists – and was nominated for Young Journalist of the Year at the GG2 Leadership & Diversity awards in 2026.<\/p>\n
Born in Germany, raised between London and Harare, with a brief stint in Iran, Danai considers herself a global citizen. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Rhodes University and a master’s in Journalism from Kingston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2417,"template":"","class_list":["post-2416","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"