Halima Gikandi is an award-winning journalist and storyteller based in New York.

Between 2019 and 2025, she served as the Africa Correspondent for the NPR/WGBH program The World. Her breaking news, feature, and investigative stories have taken her across Africa, from Ethiopia and Sudan to South Africa and Nigeria.

When she wasn’t reporting the news, she was reporting, hosting, and producing ambitious audio projects. Like the “No Place to Call Home” investigation into American and European orphanages in Uganda, the iHeart Radio Podcast Series "The Missionary," and the Snap Judgment radio segment "The Road to Boito,” which won a Gracie Award for best national radio documentary. 

In her earliest years, she worked at NPR’s On Point, WETA’s Washington Week, and was, briefly, a locations producer. Her work has also been featured in BBC, Marketplace, and The Guardian.

Halima recently returned to New York City, and has taken a break from full-time reporting to focus on bridging the gap between academic expertise and the public. But she continues to write stories, both fact and fiction. She is always open to new collaborations.

In her spare time, Halima loves hiking, hosting dinner parties, and writing film scripts.