Podcasts & Long-Form Audio
The Road to Boito - Snap Judgement
Two sisters, Magi and Memo, track down an American man accused of sexual abuse at a children’s home in Kenya. It’s a story spanning two continents… following those who give everything to make things right.
Produced and reported by Halima Gikandi and John Fecile.
In 2024, The Road to Boito was awarded a Gracie Award by the Alliance for Women in Media in the best national radio documentary category.
The Missionary Podcast (iHeart Radio)
A young missionary named Renee Bach left her comfortable life in America to start a malnutrition program in rural Uganda. Folks back home and in Uganda praised her as a model missionary -- an example of the healing power of God’s message. But a decade later she’s accused of masquerading as a doctor and rumored to have killed hundreds of children in her unlicensed clinic. How did Renee Bach end up here? Is she a case of good intentions gone wrong...or a predator posing as a saint? Co-produced and co-reported by journalists Rajiv Golla, Halima Gikandi and Malcolm Burnley.
I Have No Idea What I'm Doing Podcast
What does it take for young women in Africa to start their businesses? That's what we explore in this multi-episode podcast brought by Kali Media.
Season One produced by Halima Gikandi.
How Women’s Support Energises Somalia’s Al-Shabaab (International Crisis Group Podcast)
The Al-Shabaab insurgency remains a potent force in Somalia. One understudied source of its resilience is the support it enjoys among Somali women, despite the group’s patriarchal ethos, strict gender ideology and brutal methods.
I originally produced this as a pilot podcast episode and proof of concept for International Crisis Group in 2020.