Salim
Kikeke was born and brought up in Tanzania but now he is based in London as a
BBC worker as a Media host. He is a single father of one 13-year-old daughter.
For the last ten year he had been working with the BBC World Service and in
2010 was a big blow and year of sorrow because he lost his other while covering
the 2010, He is a producer and presenter of DIRA YA DUNIA program which
base on focusing issue of Africa that is aired in swahili across East Africa
and Central Africa via many Local channels joined BBC like STAR TV and other TV
in Uganda and Kenya.
He
has interviewed presidents, prime ministers, pop stars, sports stars, artistes,
writers and even rebel leaders.
HIS
HISTORY
He
was jobless for three years after graduating with Diploma in Irrigation
Engineering. This pushed him to settle for menial jobs. In 1995, He found
himself working at a mine in Tanzania, one of the hardest and roughest times of
his life. Being a miner is not easy. You can imagine digging a dusty terrain
for hours on end and not finding the elusive precious stone. It meant not getting
paid that day. He couldn’t bare the suffering anymore.
He
quit and moved back to Dar-es-salam